The Curse of the Elephant Man

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The Curse of the Elephant Man (2003)

Directed by Malcolm Hall, Paul Trotman

Documentary · 50m

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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Cast

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

Crew

Director
Malcolm Hall, Paul Trotman
Writer
Malcolm Hall, Paul Trotman
Editor
Stuart Waterhouse

Details

Release date
2003-07-21
Runtime
50m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Production
Natural History New Zealand Ltd., Discovery Health Channel