The Curse of the Elephant Man

Overview

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

Ray Merrick

Danny Sill

Joseph Merrick

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