How old was John Hurt in the movie The Elephant Man?

John Hurt was 39 in The Elephant Man when he played the character 'John Merrick'.

That was over 43 years ago in 1980.

In 2017 he died aged 77, starring in 192 films in his career, 166 of those after The Elephant Man was first released. If he were alive today he would be 84.

How old do you think he looks in the movie?

In The Elephant Man, I think John Hurt looks:

Did you know?

  • Director David Lynch has worked with John Hurt just once in his career.
  • John Hurt's first movie was as 'Phil Corbett' in The Wild and the Willing, released in 1962 when he was 21
  • The Elephant Man scores 8.1 out of 10 on TMDB.

The cast of The Elephant Man

John Hurt's other movies