The Grotesque: Difference between revisions

 

* Joseph Carey Merrick. He fits this trope to a tee, especially in [[David Lynch]]'s film adaptation of his life, ''[[The Elephant Man]]''.

* Rondo Hatton (April 22, 1894 – February 2, 1946) was an American actor who had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in many Hollywood B-movies. He was known for his brutish facial features which were the result of acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland. His primary role was 'The Creeper', a killer who crushed his victim's spines in a bearhug. However, the Creeper was played as a deformed, dim-witted character that acted as a foil to some other villain's ambitions. Some person would befriend this pathetic, angry hulk of a man, and then use him as a weapon. So partial subversion here.

** The appearance of Lothar from ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]'' was based on him.