The Curse of the Elephant Man
Documentary
July 21, 2003
0h 50m
Director: Malcolm Hall
The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?
Cast
Ray Merrick
Unknown role
Danny Sill
Joseph Merrick
Joseph Merrick
Unknown role
Peter Hayden
Dr. Frederick Treves
J. Bruce
Narrator
Michelle Merrick
Unknown role
Jonathan Merrick
Unknown role
Erika Hagelberg
Prof. Evolutionary Biology
Richard Owensby
victim of neurofibromatosis type 1
Charis Eng
Prof. Clinical Genetics