"The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy. The screenplay was adapted by Lynch, Christopher De Vore, and Eric Bergren from"
"a cattle farm in Tennessee, and in 1992, founded The Lewis County Children's Fund to help children in the area. All of the following were for his performance in ""The Elephant Man"": Philip Anglim Philip Charles Anglim (born February 11, 1952) is an American actor. He is best known for his performance as Joseph Merrick in the stage and television versions of ""The Elephant Man"", a role for which he received a Best Actor nomination in the 1979 Tony Awards. Other notable roles include the title role in ""Macbeth"" on Broadway and Dane O'Neill, the ill-fated love child who grew"
"Kevin Conway reprised their roles from the play as John Merrick and Frederick Treves, respectively. The film received four Emmy Award nominations; Penny Fuller won the award for 'Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special'. At the 40th Golden Globe Awards, Philip Anglim was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. Jack Hofsiss was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award for 'Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials'. The Elephant Man (1982 film) The Elephant Man is a 1982 American biographical television film directed by Jack Hofsiss about the"
"to ""Eraserhead"" or ""The Elephant Man"", but also ""Dune"", ""Blue Velvet"" and """". After producing ""The Elephant Man"", Lynch had planned to cast Dexter Fletcher in the title role. In 1987, after having released ""Blue Velvet"", Lynch once again attempted to pursue ""Ronnie Rocket"". While scouting actors for the eponymous role, Lynch met Michael J. Anderson, whose work in short films the director had previously seen. As a direct result of meeting Anderson during this time, Lynch would cast the actor in a recurring role in the television series ""Twin Peaks"", with his first appearance coming in 1990's ""Episode 2""."
"in 1980, both titled ""The Elephant Man"". In late 2014 and early 2015, Bradley Cooper starred in a Broadway revival of ""The Elephant Man"", directed by Scott Ellis. Joseph Carey Merrick was born 5 August 1862 at 50 Lee Street in Leicester, to Joseph Rockley Merrick and his wife Mary Jane (née Potterton). Joseph Rockley Merrick (c. 1838–1897) was the son of London-born weaver Barnabas Merrick (1791–1856) who moved to Leicester during the 1820s or 1830s, and his third wife Sarah Rockley. Mary Jane Potterton (c. 1837–1873) had been born at Evington, Leicestershire, her father being William Potterton, who was"
"Philip Anglim Philip Charles Anglim (born February 11, 1952) is an American actor. He is best known for his performance as Joseph Merrick in the stage and television versions of ""The Elephant Man"", a role for which he received a Best Actor nomination in the 1979 Tony Awards. Other notable roles include the title role in ""Macbeth"" on Broadway and Dane O'Neill, the ill-fated love child who grew up to follow in his unknown father's footsteps on the path to the priesthood in the television mini-series ""The Thorn Birds"". He also had a recurring guest role as the Bajoran priest"
"The Elephant Man (1982 film) The Elephant Man is a 1982 American biographical television film directed by Jack Hofsiss about the 19th-century English medical curiosity Joseph Merrick (known in this film as John Merrick). The script was adapted by Steve Lawson from the 1977 play of the same name by Bernard Pomerance. It was first broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on January 4, 1982. Playwright Pomerance's Broadway debut of ""The Elephant Man"" in 1977 was directed by Hofsiss, who became the youngest ever winner of a Tony Award for directing the play. In the film, Philip Anglim and"
"published in ""The Times"". It started with the words: ""In the evening, when the world knew he was dead"". His ashes were buried in Dorchester (Fordington) cemetery. Treves married, in 1877, Ann Elizabeth Mason, daughter of Alf S. Mason. They had two children, Enid Margery Treves, who married in 1902 Major Charles Delmé-Radcliffe and Hetty Marion Treves who died at eighteen. Treves is one of the main characters in ""The Elephant Man"", Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about Joseph Merrick's life, as well as David Lynch's 1980 film, in which he was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. In that film, the English"
"Lynch would make a name for themselves by the early 1970s for the bizarre and often disturbing imagery which characterized their films. When Lynch's first feature film, ""Eraserhead"" (1977), brought Lynch to the attention of producer Mel Brooks, he soon found himself in charge of the $5 million film ""The Elephant Man"" (1980) for Paramount. Though ""Eraserhead"" was strictly an out-of-pocket, low-budget, independent film, Lynch made the transition with unprecedented grace. The film was a huge commercial success, and earned eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay nods for Lynch. It also established his place as"
"order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included"
"Emmerich. In 2014, he appeared as ""Ian Wright"" on the CBS television series ""The Blacklist"". Riordan's film credits include ""The Hoax"" directed by ""My Life as a Dog"" director Lasse Hallstrom and ""Choose"". James Riordan (actor) James Riordan (born February 15, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a New York City-based Broadway, film and television actor. On Broadway James Riordan played Frank Whitworth in ""Jerusalem"" with Mark Rylance, and in ""The Elephant Man"" with Billy Crudup, Kate Burton and Rupert Graves. ""The New York Daily News"" review of ""The Elephant Man"" called his performance ""wonderful"" in a ""variety of roles"" and"
"Eric Bergren Eric Lee Bergren (April 27, 1954 – July 14, 2016) was an American screenwriter. Bergren was born 1954 in Pasadena. He studied Theatre arts at the University of Southern California. Based on works of Frederick Treves and Ashley Montagu about Joseph Merrick Bergren wrote the script for the 1980 film ""The Elephant Man"" together with director David Lynch and fellow screenwriter Christopher De Vore. At the 53rd Academy Awards, Bergren, Lynch and De Vore were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was also nominated at the Golden Globe Awards and British Academy Film Award."
"for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series ""I, Claudius"" (1976). Hurt's performance in the prison drama ""Midnight Express"" (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination. His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane, in science-fiction horror ""Alien"" (1979), yielded a scene which has been named by several publications as one of the most memorable in cinematic history. Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's biopic ""The Elephant Man"" (1980). Other significant roles during"
"53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Michael Apted's ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" received seven nominations while ""Ordinary People"" and ""Tess"""
"Merrick the elephant man; Jeremy Clyde as Frederick Treves the doctor; Anna Massey as actress Mrs. Kendal. The Elephant Man (play) The Elephant Man is a play by Bernard Pomerance. It premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in London on 7 November 1977. It later played in repertory at the National Theatre in London. It ran Off-Broadway from 14 January to 18 March 1979, at The Theatre at St. Peter's. The production's Broadway debut in 1979 at the Booth Theatre was produced by Richmond Crinkley and Nelle Nugent, and directed by Jack Hofsiss. The play closed in 1981 after eight previews"
"as Merrick. In May 2015, the production, again starring Cooper, Clarkson, and Nivola, opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket London for a limited 12-week run from 19 May until 8 August. An adaptation for television of this play adapted by Steve Lawson also called ""The Elephant Man"" was broadcast in 1982 on ABC. Philip Anglim repeated his Broadway performance. Also directed by Hofsiss, actress Penny Fuller received an Emmy Award for her performance as Mrs. Kendal. A radio drama adaptation by BBC World Service was published in 1988. It was directed by David Hitchenson and starred Gerard Murphy as John"
"appeared in more than twenty films. Morley singles out as noteworthy ""The Elephant Man"" (1980), as the chairman of the Royal London Hospital, ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981), as the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, ""Gandhi"" (1982), as Lord Irwin (the latter two winning Academy Awards as Best Picture), ""The Shooting Party"" (1984) and ""Plenty"" (1985), directed by David Lynch, Hugh Hudson, Richard Attenborough, Alan Bridges and Fred Schepisi respectively. Tony Palmer's ""Wagner"" (1983) was the only film in which Gielgud, Richardson, and Olivier played scenes together. Gielgud made cameo appearances in films of little merit, lending distinction while not damaging"
"his shipmates, including the only ship's officer to survive the sinking, 3rd Wireless Operator John Jackson. Treves, then 17 years old, received the British Empire Medal and the Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea for his actions. After the war he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Treves was from a medical family; his father was a physician and his great uncle was Frederick Treves, the surgeon who became famous for discovering Joseph Merrick, the ""Elephant Man"". In the David Lynch film ""The Elephant Man"", the surgeon is played by Anthony Hopkins and Treves himself appeared in"
"in the 1920 film version, by Harry Carey in the 1932 film serial version, by Randolph Scott in the 1936 film version, by Kenneth Ives in the 1971 BBC serial, by Steve Forrest in the 1977 TV movie and by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1992 film version. Day-Lewis received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Actor in 1993, won an ""Evening Standard"" British Film Award for Best Actor in 1993, and won an ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year in 1993 for his interepretation of the character. In the 1992 film, however, the character's name is changed"
"produced a revival of ""The Elephant Man"", which starred Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola. The play transferred to the Booth Theater on Broadway in Winter 2014, where it played to sold out houses. It then transferred to the Haymarket Theater, London, in Spring 2015 with the same cast. The Hollywood film of the same name, directed by David Lynch, was not an adaptation of the play as many people assume. Having used the title and drawn on much of the original content of the play, the production company successfully was sued by Pomerance. Pomerance first was inspired to"
"(December 1973), Barbra Streisand (April 1975), Lauren Hutton (December 1976), Mae West (May 1977), Peter Allen (February 1978), Dolly Parton (April 1978), Jon Voight (April 1979), Christopher Reeve (October 1980), Lily Tomlin (February 1981), and Diana Ross (May 1981). Best sold issue was the February 1976 Issue with Zarko Halmic, Bonita George and Bo van den Assum on the cover. The May 1979 issue contained a profile of actor Philip Anglim, who originated the role on Broadway of John Merrick in ""The Elephant Man"", a play by Bernard Pomerance. Two other profiles in that issue were of James Mason, the"
"favorable. Roger Ebert gave it 2/4 stars, writing: ""I kept asking myself what the film was really trying to say about the human condition as reflected by John Merrick, and I kept drawing blanks."" In the book ""The Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture"", Nadja Durbach describes the work as “much more mawkish and moralising than one would expect from the leading postmodern surrealist filmmaker” and “unashamedly sentimental”. She blamed this mawkishness on the use of Treves’s memoirs as source material. ""The Elephant Man"" has since been ranked among the best films of the 1980s in ""Time"
"in ""Class Enemy"" (1979), in which he bagged the lead role (Players Theatre, West Village); he won a Theatre World Award for his performance. He made his Los Angeles debut in ""Hitting Town"" (1980); and took a role in ""The Elephant Man"" (1980) the same year, which was when he met future wife Juliet Mills. In the early 1980s, Caulfield was an active member of the Mirror Repertory Company, part of The Mirror Theater Ltd, performing in numerous repertory productions including ""Paradise Lost"", ""Rain"", ""Inheritors"", and ""The Hasty Heart"". He made his debut Off-Broadway as the sexy amoral homicidal titular"
"in art and theater at the University of Mississippi (also known as ""Ole Miss""), after turning down a scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design. He graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelor's degree in theatre performance and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Ellington won Best Actor for his role in ""The Elephant King"" at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival. On May 20, 2012, Ellington married casting director Chrissy Fiorilli at the Dixie Gin in Shreveport, Louisiana. Tate Ellington James Tate Ellington (born April 17, 1979) is an American actor. He portrayed Aidan Hall,"
"was then offered the part based on his performance in ""The Elephant Man"". Other actors considered for the role included Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Derek Jacobi and Daniel Day-Lewis. Gene Hackman was originally going to play Jack Crawford, the Agent-in-Charge of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI in Quantico, Virginia but he found the script ""too violent."" Scott Glenn was then cast in the role. To prepare for the role, Glenn met with John E. Douglas, after whom the character is modeled. Douglas gave Glenn a tour of the Quantico facility and also played for him"
"the Rings"", playing the role of Aragorn. Hurt voiced Hazel, the heroic rabbit leader of his warren in the film adaptation of ""Watership Down"" (both 1978) and later played the major villain, General Woundwort, in the animated television series version. As the deformed John Merrick in ""The Elephant Man"" (1980), he won another BAFTA and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actor. His other roles in the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s included Kane, the first victim of the title creature in the film ""Alien"" (1979, a role which he reprised as"
"scripts he felt might interest Lynch, but on hearing the name of the first, Lynch decided his next project would be ""The Elephant Man"". Early life of David Lynch David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style; known as ""Lynchian"", this style is noted most often for its dreamlike imagery and meticulous sound design. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements in his films have earned them a reputation as works that ""disturb, offend or"
"James Riordan (actor) James Riordan (born February 15, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a New York City-based Broadway, film and television actor. On Broadway James Riordan played Frank Whitworth in ""Jerusalem"" with Mark Rylance, and in ""The Elephant Man"" with Billy Crudup, Kate Burton and Rupert Graves. ""The New York Daily News"" review of ""The Elephant Man"" called his performance ""wonderful"" in a ""variety of roles"" and Curtain UP said, ""The supporting cast is also well chosen, with especially good work from Jack Gilpin, and James Riordan"". James Riordan's other Broadway credits are ""Dance of Death"" starring Helen Mirren and"
"He works from an eighteenth-century manor house in Berkshire, and is assisted by his partner Sinikka Ikaheimo. Tucker's earliest credited work is the make-up for the 1970 film of ""Julius Caesar"", starring Charlton Heston and Sir John Gielgud. He was also responsible for aging the characters in the BBC series ""I, Claudius"". In 1980, Tucker was hired to create the prosthetics that would transform John Hurt into the hideously deformed Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's film ""The Elephant Man"". According to his website, ""The head had 15 different sections, some of them overlapping never done before , made in foam"
"(1971); a Sea Devil in ""The Sea Devils"" (1972). and a pilot in ""The Armageddon Factor"" (1979). Pat Gorman Pat Gorman is a British actor who, despite never appearing in a starring role, appeared in minor roles in a large number of films and television productions, including ""The Elephant Man"", ""Z Cars"", ""Fawlty Towers"", ""I, Claudius"" and ""Blakes 7"". He also played the killer in the television series ""The Nightmare Man"". He appeared in minor roles in 83 episodes of the science fiction series ""Doctor Who"" between 1964 and 1985: only six other actors appeared in more in the show's"
"in ""The Protectors"" (1972), Pilkington in ""Follyfoot"" (1973), Lionel in ""The Growing Pains of PC Penrose"" (1975), Chauffeur in ""The Sweeney"" (1976), Mr Oliver in ""Survivors"" (1977) Judge Lambsfoot in ""Dick Turpin"" (1980), Scruffy Man in ""The Professionals"" (1980), Dr Losborne in ""Oliver Twist"" (1982), Jonathon Hopper in ""Whoops Apocalypse"" (1982), Mr Barraclough/Executive in ""Metal Mickey"" (1980-1982), Lapsley/Josie's Dad in ""Last of the Summer Wine"" (1976-1983), Mr Adam in ""The Witches and the Grinnygog"" (1983), the Retired Morris Dancer in The Black Seal episode of ""The Black Adder"" (1983), Guido in ""Ellis Island"" (1984), Old Mr Brooks in ""We'll Think"
"retirement home, Denville Hall. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1926. Kendal died at her home in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, in 1935, aged 87, after a long illness. She was buried at St Marylebone cemetery in East Finchley. Kendal is a featured character in the 1979 play ""The Elephant Man"" and the unrelated 1980 film of the same name, both based on the life of Joseph Merrick. In the film, Kendal was portrayed by Anne Bancroft. Madge Kendal Dame Madge Kendal, (born Margaret Shafto Robertson; 15 March 1848 – 14 September 1935) was"
"album's hard rock edge included conspicuous guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, Chuck Hammer, and Pete Townshend. As ""Ashes to Ashes"" hit number one on the UK charts, Bowie opened a three-month run on Broadway on 24 September, starring as John Merrick in ""The Elephant Man"". Bowie paired with Queen in 1981 for a one-off single release, ""Under Pressure"". The duet was a hit, becoming Bowie's third UK number-one single. Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1982 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play ""Baal"". Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier"