Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
1978 | 117m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
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| Writer: | Paul Ferris |
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| A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 09, 1978 |
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| Director: | |
| Writer: | Paul Ferris |
| Genres: | Drama, Documentary, TV Movie |
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| Production Companies | BBC Cymru Wales |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 04, 2024 Entered: May 06, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Ronald Lacey | Dylan |
| Gayle Hunnicutt | Liz |
| Ed Bishop | Prof. Goonmeyer |
| Kate Harper | Connie Goonmeyer |
| Valerie Colgan | Imogen McLewis |
| Norman Chancer | Prof. McLewis |
| Hilary Ryan | Girl student |
| Rhoda Lewis | Florence Thomas |
| Clifford Evans | D.J. Thomas |
| Dennis Burgess | Doctor |
| Adrian Hocking | Child Thomas |
| Susannah Fellows | Party girl |
| Richard Davies | Young Thomas |
| William Thomas | Idris |
| Name | Job |
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| Paul Ferris | Writer |
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| Richard Lewis | Producer |
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