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Nigel Finch
Tenterden, England, UK
Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch was an English film director and filmmaker whose career influenced the growth of British gay cinema. Finch began working as co-editor for the BBC televis…
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Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch was an English film director and filmmaker whose career influenced the growth of British gay cinema. Finch began working as co-editor for the BBC television documentary series Arena in the early 1970s. He produced and directed many notable programs including My Way (1978), and The Private Life of the Ford Cortina (1982). He rose to prominence with the documentary Chelsea Hotel (1981), which profiled the famed New York hotel, and its legacy of famous gay guests, including Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, William S. Burroughs, Quentin Crisp and Andy Warhol. His documentary subjects include artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1988), filmmaker Kenneth Anger (1991), and artist Louise Bourgeois (1994). Finch went on to direct films such as the BAFTA-nominated drama The Lost Language of Cranes, and the musical soap opera The Vampyr. Finch died from AIDS-related illness in London in 1995 during post-production of his first full-length feature film Stonewall, a docudrama loosely based on events leading up to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.
Filmography
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1995
Stonewall
Movie Director
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1994
Voices from the Island
Movie Executive Producer
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1994
The Ring - A South London Tale
Movie Self
- 1993
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1993
The Last Soviet Citizen
Movie Executive In Charge Of Production
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1992
The Vampyr: A Soap Opera
Movie Director
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1992
The Lost Language of Cranes
Movie Director
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1991
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
Movie Director
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1991
Van Morrison: One Irish Rover
Movie Executive Producer
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1991
Paris Is Burning
Movie Executive Producer
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1991
Miller Meets Mandela
Movie Executive Producer
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1990
Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story
Movie Executive Producer
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1989
The Tip of the Iceberg
Movie Executive Producer
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1989
Blackpool Wakes
Movie Producer
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1988
Robert Mapplethorpe
Movie Director
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1988
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
Movie Executive Producer
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1987
The Confessions of Robert Crumb
Movie Executive Producer
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1986
Martín Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
Movie Executive Producer
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1985
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Movie Executive Producer
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1985
Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain
Movie Director
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Director
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1983
Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
Movie Director
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1982
The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
Movie Director
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1981
Bergerac
TV show Director
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1981
Chelsea Hotel
Movie Director
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1980
Arena: Dire Straits
Movie Director
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1980
Lene Lovich: Sleeping Beauty
Movie Director
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1980
The Errand
Movie Director
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1979
My Way
Movie Director
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1978
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood
Movie Producer
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1978
Children of the Gods
Movie Director
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1975
Arena
TV show Executive Producer
