Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (1978)

ALL 11/09/1978 (en) Drama, Documentary, TV Movie 117 Min
  • Release
    11/09/1978
  • Production
    BBC Cymru Wales
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Richard Lewis

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Ronald Lacey

    Dylan

  2. Gayle Hunnicutt

    Liz

  3. Ed Bishop

    Prof. Goonmeyer

  4. Kate Harper

    Connie Goonmeyer

  5. Valerie Colgan

    Imogen McLewis

  6. Norman Chancer

    Prof. McLewis

  7. Hilary Ryan

    Girl student

  8. Rhoda Lewis

    Florence Thomas

  9. Clifford Evans

    D.J. Thomas

  10. Dennis Burgess

    Doctor

  11. Adrian Hocking

    Child Thomas

  12. Susannah Fellows

    Party girl

  13. Richard Davies

    Young Thomas

  14. William Thomas

    Idris

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 14 , Crews : 2

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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (1978) 117 Min

ALL 11/09/1978 (en)
Drama, Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release 11/09/1978
  • Production
    BBC Cymru Wales
  • Original title Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Richard Lewis

    Producer