The Curse of the Elephant Man

The Curse of the Elephant Man

50 mins | Documentary | July 21, 2003

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?

The Curse of the Elephant Man

50 mins | Documentary | July 21, 2003

The Curse of the Elephant Man
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?
Producers Natural History New Zealand Limited, Discovery Health Channel
Original title The Curse of the Elephant Man
Directors Paul Trotman, Malcolm Hall
Writers Paul Trotman, Malcolm Hall

Cast

Danny Sill

as Joseph Merrick

Peter Hayden

as Dr. Frederick Treves

J. Bruce

as Narrator

Erika Hagelberg

as Prof. Evolutionary Biology

Richard Owensby

as victim of neurofibromatosis type 1

Charis Eng

as Prof. Clinical Genetics