Anne Bancroft and John Hurt in The Elephant Man This eventually included Brooks, who hit it off with the director when he met Lynch. “His shirt was buttoned – always buttoned – at the top.

I was charged with tracking the progress of The Elephant Man, the film Lynch was shooting about John Merrick starring John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft and John Gielgud. They were on ...

Mel Brooks’ production company hired Lynch to write and direct “The Elephant Man” which ended ... John Hurt and Anne Bancroft. He also directed the original “Dune” which boasted a ...

David Lynch’s classic 1980 film The Elephant Man has some cruel parallels with Britain in 2025, argues STEPHEN ARNELL ...

David Lynch, the legendary director of "Twin Peaks" and "Mulholland Drive," is dead at 78, his family announced Jan. 16 on Facebook.

Besides realizing experiences of surreal psychological insanity, David Lynch wonderfully portrayed tragedy and human emotion ...