Nigel Finch

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Directing

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

• Stonewall (1995)
• Voices from the Island (1994)
• The Ring - A South London Tale (1994)
• The Rolling Stones: 25x5 - The Continuing Adventures of The Rolling Stones (1993)
• The Last Soviet Citizen (1993)
• The Vampyr: A Soap Opera (1992)
• The Lost Language of Cranes (1992)
• Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon (1991)
• Van Morrison: One Irish Rover (1991)
• Paris Is Burning (1991)
• Miller Meets Mandela (1991)
• Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story (1990)
• The Tip of the Iceberg (1989)
• Blackpool Wakes (1989)
• Robert Mapplethorpe (1988)
• BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie (1988)
• The Confessions of Robert Crumb (1987)
• Martín Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas (1986)
• The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985)
• Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain (1985)
• Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes (1983)
• The Private Life of the Ford Cortina (1982)
• Chelsea Hotel (1981)
• Arena: Dire Straits (1980)
• Lene Lovich: Sleeping Beauty (1980)
• The Errand (1980)
• My Way (1979)
• Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood (1978)
• Children of the Gods (1978)