John Hurt in 1985.Getty Images Brooks ... Production was delayed by Lynch’s insistence that he alone could build the Elephant Man’s makeup. He spent weeks working on a giant mask that was ...

but proved that make-up was worthy of Academy recognition. Here’s how John Hurt became the Elephant Man. ‘The next week and a half was one of the darkest times of my life’ Joseph Merrick ...

By Cheryl Cheng, Duane Byrge John Hurt, the esteemed British ... In 1980, he recalled the extensive makeup needed to become the kind-hearted man with the monstrous skull. “It never occurred ...

John Merrick, in David Lynch’s film “The Elephant Man,” and though his features were hidden behind either a canvas bag or the mounds of makeup used to convey Merrick’s disfigurement, Hurt ...

Hurt is unrecognizable in perhaps his most memorable role as the lead in David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man.” He endured eight hours in the makeup chair daily to transform into John Merrick.

Two years later, Hurt appeared in what was his greatest role as the anguished John Merrick in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. Despite wearing prosthetics and makeup that rendered the actor ...

Hurt is unrecognizable in perhaps his most memorable role as the lead in David Lynch's "The Elephant Man." He endured eight hours in the makeup chair daily to transform into John Merrick.

Hurt is unrecognizable in perhaps his most memorable role as the lead in David Lynch's "The Elephant Man." He endured eight hours in the makeup chair daily to transform into John Merrick.

John Merrick, in David Lynch’s film “The Elephant Man,” and though his features were hidden behind either a canvas bag or the mounds of makeup used to convey Merrick’s disfigurement, Hurt ...

Hurt is unrecognizable in perhaps his most memorable role as the lead in David Lynch's "The Elephant Man." He endured eight hours in the makeup chair daily to transform into John Merrick.