Movie: The Curse of the Elephant Man

Top 10 Billed Cast

Ray Merrick
Ray Merrick

Danny Sill
Danny Sill

Joseph Merrick

Joseph Merrick
Joseph Merrick

Peter Hayden
Peter Hayden

Dr. Frederick Treves

J. Bruce
J. Bruce

Narrator

Michelle Merrick
Michelle Merrick

Jonathan Merrick
Jonathan Merrick

Erika Hagelberg
Erika Hagelberg

Prof. Evolutionary Biology

Richard Owensby
Richard Owensby

victim of neurofibromatosis type 1

Charis Eng
Charis Eng

Prof. Clinical Genetics

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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?

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    2003-07-21

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