Who Played John Merrick in The Elephant Man

John Merrick is a role in The Elephant Man, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 1979.

In 1880s London, John Merrick is a horribly deformed young man – a victim of rare skin and bone diseases. Under the care of celebrated physician Frederick Treves, Merrick slowly evolves from an object of pity to an urbane gentleman, desperate to be recognized as a man like any other.