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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

11/09/1978

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1hr 57min

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Drama

,Documentary

,TV Movie

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ronald Lacey
  • Gayle Hunnicutt
  • Ed Bishop
  • Kate Harper
  • Valerie Colgan

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • BBC Cymru Wales

      Production Countries

    • United Kingdom

    LANGUAGES

    • English

    Cast

    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

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