Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
09/11/1978
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
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
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