The Curse of the Elephant Man

50m
Documentary
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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
Danny Sill
Joseph Merrick
Joseph Merrick
Unknown
Peter Hayden
Dr. Frederick Treves
J. Bruce
Narrator
Michelle Merrick
Unknown
Jonathan Merrick
Unknown
Erika Hagelberg
Prof. Evolutionary Biology
Richard Owensby
victim of neurofibromatosis type 1
Charis Eng
Prof. Clinical Genetics

Crew

Malcolm Hall
Director, Writer
Paul Trotman
Director, Writer
Stuart Waterhouse
Editor
Mark Poertner
Executive Producer
Bob Reid
Executive Producer
Stephen Downes
Camera Operator