Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Ronald Lacey

Dylan

Age : 55 | Popularity : 10%

Gayle Hunnicutt

Liz

Age : 81 | Popularity : 11%

Ed Bishop

Prof. Goonmeyer

Age : 72 | Popularity : 5%

Kate Harper

Connie Goonmeyer

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Valerie Colgan

Imogen McLewis

Age : N/A | Popularity : 10%

Norman Chancer

Prof. McLewis

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Hilary Ryan

Girl student

Age : 68 | Popularity : 3%

Rhoda Lewis

Florence Thomas

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Paul Ferris
Production	Producer	Richard Lewis
Department	Role	Name

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