His take on the heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick made his career – but is the late director’s least typical film also ...

I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man,” John Hurt screams late in The Elephant Man while being chased by a mob.

Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano ... She starred in a number of other films, including The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), and Agnes of God (1985), for which ...