BALTIMORE’S JOHNNY ECK, called “The Most Remarkable Man Alive!” by Robert Ripley, is dead. Eck was born with no legs, a deformity that propelled him to an early career as an astonishingly ...

The producers already own rights to the Johnny Eck story, purchased in 1999 from the brothers’ niece by marriage, Ann Moran, and her daughter, Lynn Hausler.

Of course Johnny Eck, screen painter, sideshow performer, actor, photographer, model maker, magician, gymnast (he often walked about on his hands), and race car driver, is best known outside of ...

John Eckhardt Jr, (August 27, 1911 – January 5, 1991), professionally billed as Johnny Eck, was an American freak show performer in sideshows and a film ...

Johnny Eck, the infamous “broken doll” — his mother’s first words upon seeing him. Perhaps best known as one of the freaks in the Tod Browning classic of the same name. Here he emulates ...

Fox Searchlight has come aboard to finance and distribute "Johnny Eck," a dramatic vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio to play the star of the 1932 Tod Browning film "Freaks" and his identical twin brother.

Half-Man Johnny Eck And His Custom-Built Race Car By Ben Wojdyla March 23, 2009 3:00 pm EST Johnny Eckhardt was born in 1911 with a horrifying birth defect leaving him with no body below his chest.

Leonardo DiCaprio, who played identical twins in the Randall Wallace-directed "Man in the Iron Mask," has signed on to go that route again, but in a far more daring manner. He'll star in "Johnny ...

This theatrical piece of storytelling slots in perfectly with the West Yorkshire’s Playhouse’s genre-defying Transform festival.