The Curse of the Elephant Man
50min

Documentary

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?

Production Companies

Natural History New Zealand Ltd.

Discovery Health Channel

Cast

Ray Merrick

Danny Sill

Joseph Merrick

Peter Hayden

Dr. Frederick Treves

J. Bruce

Narrator

Michelle Merrick

Jonathan Merrick

Erika Hagelberg

Prof. Evolutionary Biology

Richard Owensby

victim of neurofibromatosis type 1

Charis Eng

Prof. Clinical Genetics

Release date

21st Jul 2003

Status

Released

The Curse of the Elephant Man 50min