Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 9, 1978

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

BBC Wales,BBC Cymru Wales

Cast

Ronald Lacey,Gayle Hunnicutt,Ed Bishop,Kate Harper,Valerie Colgan,Norman Chancer,Hilary Ryan,Rhoda Lewis,Clifford Evans,Dennis Burgessand 4 more

Writer

Paul Ferris

Producer

Richard Lewis

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

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