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

09 November 1978 Drama, Factual, TV Movie 117 mins

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.

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Cast

Ronald Lacey as Dylan

Gayle Hunnicutt as Liz

Ed Bishop as Prof. Goonmeyer

Kate Harper as Connie Goonmeyer

Valerie Colgan as Imogen McLewis

Norman Chancer as Prof. McLewis

Hilary Ryan as Girl student

Rhoda Lewis as Florence Thomas

Clifford Evans as D.J. Thomas

Dennis Burgess as Doctor

Adrian Hocking as Child Thomas

Susannah Fellows as Party girl

Richard Davies as Young Thomas

William Thomas as Idris

Crew

Paul Ferris Writer

Richard Lewis Producer

International Releases Dates

United Kingdom 09 November 1978

Production Companies

BBC Cymru Wales

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