Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (1978)
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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Ronald Lacey as Dylan |
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Gayle Hunnicutt as Liz |
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Ed Bishop as Prof. Goonmeyer |
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Kate Harper as Connie Goonmeyer |
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Valerie Colgan as Imogen McLewis |
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Norman Chancer as Prof. McLewis |
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Hilary Ryan as Girl student |
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Rhoda Lewis as Florence Thomas |
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Clifford Evans as D.J. Thomas |
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Dennis Burgess as Doctor |
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Adrian Hocking as Child Thomas |
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Susannah Fellows as Party girl |
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Richard Davies as Young Thomas |
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William Thomas as Idris |
| Production | Richard Lewis | Producer |
| Writing | Paul Ferris | Writer |
