Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

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.

Billed Cast

Ronald Lacey

Dylan

Gayle Hunnicutt

Liz

Ed Bishop

Prof. Goonmeyer

Kate Harper

Connie Goonmeyer

Valerie Colgan

Imogen McLewis

Norman Chancer

Prof. McLewis

H

Hilary Ryan

Girl student

Rhoda Lewis

Florence Thomas

Clifford Evans

D.J. Thomas

D

Dennis Burgess

Doctor

A

Adrian Hocking

Child Thomas

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Susannah Fellows

Party girl