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Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch (1 August 1949 – 14 February 1995) was an English film director and filmmaker whose career influenced the growth of British gay cinema.
Biography
Nigel Finch was born in
Tenterden
Tenterden is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It stands on the edge of the remnant forest the Weald, overlooking the valley of the River Rother. It was a member of the Cinque Ports Confederation. Its riverside today is not ...
, Kent, the son of Graham and Tibby Finch, and raised in
Bromley
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, c ...
, south east London. He studied
art history
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
at the
University of Sussex
, mottoeng = Be Still and Know
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £14.4 million (2020)
, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
, chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar
, vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil
, ...
.
Finch began working as co-editor for the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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television documentary series ''
Arena
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'' in the early 1970s.
He produced and directed many notable programs including ''My Way'' (1978), and ''The Private Life of the
Ford Cortina
The Ford Cortina is a medium-sized family car that was built initially by Ford of Britain, and then Ford of Europe in various guises from 1962 to 1982, and was the United Kingdom's best-selling car of the 1970s.
The Cortina was produced in fiv ...
'' (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
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the thr ...
,
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...
,
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; – ) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of his life and various media appearances. Before becoming well-known, he was an artist's model, hence the title of ...
and
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the Art movement, visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore th ...
. His documentary subjects include artist
Robert Mapplethorpe (1988), filmmaker
Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost 40 works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped ...
(1991),
and artist
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...
(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
Accolades
Nigel Finch's death was commemorated in the ending title of the opera-film "Dido and Aeneas" (1995) directed by
Peter Maniura (conducted by
Richard Hickox
Richard Sidney Hickox (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.
Early life
Hickox was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family. After attending the Royal Gram ...
. See the corresponding entry in
Dido and Aeneas discography).
References
External links
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Nigel Finch at the British Film Institute
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1949 births
1995 deaths
English film directors
English television directors
LGBT film directors
People from Tenterden
AIDS-related deaths in England
People from Bromley
Alumni of the University of Sussex
20th-century LGBT people