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unusual facts about The Elephant Man


The Lurker at the Threshold

The book is referenced as the name of the four-part "Lurker At The Threshold" suite by avant-garde musician Buckethead on his album The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006).


Bucketheadland 2

Track 23, Digger's Den, has a brief exclamation around 0:09 of Bootsy Collins saying "Hit me" which is sampled in the song Bird With A Hole In The Stomach off of Buckethead's 2006 album, The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock.

Freddie Francis

With The Elephant Man (1980), directed by David Lynch, Francis found himself gaining new-found industry and critical respect as a cinematographer.

John Merrick

Joseph Merrick (1862–1890), the Elephant Man; early biographies inaccurately give his first name as "John", and this name was used in the 1980 film The Elephant Man


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Doug Varone

As a director and choreographer, he has staged Gluck’s Orfée et Eurydice and Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Opera Colorado and Laurent Petitgirard’s Joseph Merrick: The Elephant Man (for Minnesota Opera).

Jana Sýkorová

Some performance highlights with the company include the world premiere of Emil Viklický's Phaedra, Pallas in a concert version of Camille Saint-Saëns's Hélène, the title role in the Czech premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso, and the Elephant Man in the world premiere of Laurent Petitgirard's Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man.

Mandy Sellars

The most famous person with Proteus syndrome may be Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man".

Mickey Vann

Mickey was the son of Hal Denver (a friend of Elvis Presley)-who once threw knives at John Major's mother-and the grandson of The Silver King, a showman with The Elephant Man among his sideshows.

Ronnie Rocket

After producing The Elephant Man, Lynch had planned to cast Dexter Fletcher in the title role.

Samuel Boileau Goad

Goad was the father of Horatio Boileau Goad and grandfather of Sir Frederick Treves, the surgeon associated with the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick.

William R. Maples

He worked on a number of high-profile criminal investigations, some of them concerning historical figures such as Francisco Pizarro, the Romanov family, Joseph Merrick (known as "'The Elephant Man'"), US President Zachary Taylor and Medgar Evers.