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'''Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch''' (1 August 1949 – 14 February 1995) was an English [[film director]] and [[Filmmaking|filmmaker]] whose career influenced the growth of British gay cinema.<ref name="Forde">{{cite book |title=Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture |last=Forde |first=John |authorlink= |editor-first= |editor-last= |editor-link= |year=2006 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn= |page=217 |accessdate=26 September 2012 |url=}}</ref>
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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.<ref name="Forde">{{cite book |title=Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture |last=Forde |first=John |year=2006 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |page=217 }}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Nigel Finch was born in [[Tenterden]], [[Kent]], the son of Graham and Tibby Finch, and raised in [[Bromley]], south east [[London]]. He studied [[art history]] at the [[University of Sussex]].<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Nigel Finch |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-nigel-finch-1573483.html |work=[[The Independent]] |last=Williams |first=Nigel |date=17 February 1995 |accessdate=26 September 2012}}</ref>
Nigel Finch was born in [[Tenterden]], Kent, the son of Graham and Tibby Finch, and raised in [[Bromley]], south east London. He studied [[art history]] at the [[University of Sussex]].<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Nigel Finch |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-nigel-finch-1573483.html |work=[[The Independent]] |last=Williams |first=Nigel |date=17 February 1995 |access-date=26 September 2012}}</ref>


Finch began working as as co-editor for the [[BBC]] [[television documentary]] series ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' in the early 1970s.<ref name="obit"/> 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 [[Hotel Chelsea|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),<ref name="Forde"/> and artist [[Louise Bourgeois]] (1994). Finch went on to direct films such as the [[BAFTA]]-nominated drama ''[[The Lost Language of Cranes (film)|The Lost Language of Cranes]]'', and the musical soap opera ''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera|The Vampyr]]''.
Finch began working as co-editor for the [[BBC]] television documentary series ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' in the early 1970s.<ref name="obit"/> 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 [[Hotel Chelsea|New York hotel]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/arena/entries/3512bdee-4400-48c9-9f7a-73e2c8194c25|title=BBC Blogs - Arena Gazette - Tribute to Nigel Finch|date=19 February 2015|work=BBC}}</ref> 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),<ref name="Forde"/> and artist [[Louise Bourgeois]] (1994). Finch went on to direct films such as the [[BAFTA]]-nominated drama ''[[The Lost Language of Cranes (film)|The Lost Language of Cranes]]'', and the musical soap opera ''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera|The Vampyr]]''.


Finch died from [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]]-related illness in [[London]] in 1995 during [[post-production]] of his first full-length feature film ''[[Stonewall (film)|Stonewall]]'', a [[docudrama]] loosely based on events leading up to the 1969 [[Stonewall riots]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Levy |first1=Emanuel |title=Riot Girls |journal=The Advocate |date=July 23, 1996 |pages=51–53 |publisher= Liberation Publications Inc.}}</ref><ref name="obit"/>
Finch died from [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]]-related illness in London in 1995 during [[post-production]] of his first full-length feature film ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]'', a [[docudrama]] loosely based on events leading up to the 1969 [[Stonewall riots]] in New York City.<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Levy |first1=Emanuel |title=Riot Girls |journal=The Advocate |date=23 July 1996 |pages=51–53 |publisher= Liberation Publications Inc.}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
'''Film'''
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" border="2" cellpadding="4" background: #f9f9f9;
* ''The Errand'' (1980) (Short film)
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" width="70" | Year
* ''The Caravaggio Conspiracy'' (1984)
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
* ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]'' (1995)
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role

! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
'''TV movies'''
|-valign="top"
* ''Ligmalion: A Musical for the 80s'' (1985)
| align="center" | 1978 || ''[[Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood|Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision]]''
* ''Raspberry Ripple'' (1986)
| director; producer || ''[[Omnibus (UK TV series)|Omnibus]]'' series TV documentary; also known as ''Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood''
* ''[[The Lost Language of Cranes (film)|The Lost Language of Cranes]]''{{efn|Also featured as an episode in the ''[[Screen Two]]'' series}} (1991)
|-valign="top"

| align="center" | 1978 || ''My Way''
'''TV series'''
| director || ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary
{| class="wikitable"
|-valign="top"
! Year
| align="center" | 1980 || ''The Errand''
! Title
| director || short film
! Notes
|-valign="top"
|-
| align="center" | 1981 || ''Did You Miss Me?''
| 1986
| director || ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary
| ''[[Screen Two]]''
|-valign="top"
| Episode "Shergar"
| align="center" | 1981 || ''Chelsea Hotel''
|-
| director || ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary of the [[Hotel Chelsea]] in [[New York City]]
| 1988
|-valign="top"
| ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]''
| align="center" | 1982 || ''The Private Life of the Ford Cortina''
| Episode "Whatever Lola Wants"
| director || ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary
|-
|-valign="top"
| 1992–1993
| align="center" | 1984 || ''The Caravaggio Conspiracy''
| ''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera]]''
| director ||
| Miniseries
|-valign="top"
|-
| align="center" | 1985 || ''Ligmalion: A Musical for the 80s''
| director; producer || TV film
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1986 || ''Raspberry Ripple''
| director || TV film
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1986 || ''Shergar''
| director || ''[[Screen Two]]'' TV series episode (Season 2, Episode 11)
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1988 || ''Robert Mapplethorpe''
| director || ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary featuring [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1988 || ''Whatever Lola Wants''
| director || ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' TV series episode
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1989 || ''[[25x5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones]]''
| director || TV documentary
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1991 || ''Kenneth Anger''
| director || documentary about film-maker [[Kenneth Anger]]
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1991 || ''[[The Lost Language of Cranes (film)|The Lost Language of Cranes]]''
| director || TV film; also 1992 ''[[Screen Two]]'' TV series episode (Season 8, Episode 4)
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1992–1993 || ''[[The Vampyr: A Soap Opera]]''
| director || TV film
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1993 || ''Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue''
| director || ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' series TV documentary on the [[Buddy Holly]] song "[[Peggy Sue (song)|Peggy Sue]]"
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1994 || ''[[Louise Bourgeois: No Trespassing]]''
| director ||
|-valign="top"
| align="center" | 1995 || ''[[Stonewall (film)|Stonewall]]''
| director ||
|}
|}

===Documentary works===
'''TV movies'''
* ''[[25x5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones]]'' (1989)

'''TV series'''
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Title
! Episode
|-
|rowspan=2| 1978
| ''[[Omnibus (UK TV series)|Omnibus]]''
| "[[Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood|Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision]]" (Also producer)
|-
|rowspan=10| ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]''
| ''My Way''
|-
|rowspan=2| 1981
| ''Did You Miss Me?''
|-
| ''Chelsea Hotel''
|-
| 1982
| ''The Private Life of the Ford Cortina''
|-
| 1983
| ''Kurt Vonnegut , Jr: "Deadeye Dick"''
|-
| 1988
| ''Robert Mapplethorpe''
|-
| 1991
| ''Kenneth Anger''
|-
|rowspan=2| 1993
| ''Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue''
|-
| ''Pirates''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3a839bae20c64e0f8217f2bcb77da017|title=Arena: Radio Night - BBC Two England, 18 December 1993 - BBC Genome |work=[[BBC Genome]]|access-date=2016-10-24}}</ref> (Also producer)
|-
| 1994
| ''Louise Bourgeois: No Trespassing''
|}

'''Executive producer'''
* ''[[Paris Is Burning (film)|Paris Is Burning]]''<ref>{{Citation|last=Xtravaganza|first=Brooke|title=Paris Is Burning|date=1991-08-01|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|last2=Christian|last3=Corey|last4=Duprée|first2=André|first3=Dorian|first4=Paris|access-date=2017-04-28}}</ref> (1991)


==Accolades==
==Accolades==
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%" border="2" cellpadding="4" background: #f9f9f9
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
! style="background:#B0C4DE" width="40"| Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE" width="40"| Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE" width="280"| Award
! style="background:#B0C4DE" width="280"| Award
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|-
|-
| align="center"| 1988
| align="center"| 1988
| [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA TV Award]]
|rowspan=5| [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA TV Award]]
| [[British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand|Best Factual Series]]
|rowspan=5| [[British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand|Best Factual Series]]
| ''[[Arena (TV series)|Arena]]'' TV series
|rowspan=5| ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1989
| align="center"| 1989
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1990
| align="center"| 1990
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1991
| align="center"| 1991
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
| align="center"| 1992
| align="center"| 1992
| BAFTA TV Award
| Best Factual Series
| ''Arena'' TV series
| {{nom}}
| {{nom}}
|-
|-
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| [[BFI London Film Festival]]
| [[BFI London Film Festival]]
| Audience Award
| Audience Award
| ''[[Stonewall (film)|Stonewall]]''
|rowspan=2| ''[[Stonewall (1995 film)|Stonewall]]''
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|-
|-
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| [[Frameline Film Festival]]
| [[Frameline Film Festival]]
| Audience Award
| Audience Award
| ''Stonewall''
| {{won}}
| {{won}}
|}
|}

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]]. See the corresponding entry in [[Dido and Aeneas discography]]).


==References==
==References==
{{Notelist}}
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{imdb name|id=0277439|name=Nigel Finch}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0277439|name=Nigel Finch}}
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/63368 Nigel Finch at the British Film Institute]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070325013931/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/63368 Nigel Finch at the British Film Institute]
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-nigel-finch-1573483.html The Independent: Nigel Finch obituary]
* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-nigel-finch-1573483.html The Independent: Nigel Finch obituary]

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Latest revision as of 17:14, 15 August 2023

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.[1]

Biography[edit]

Nigel Finch was born in Tenterden, Kent, the son of Graham and Tibby Finch, and raised in Bromley, south east London. He studied art history at the University of Sussex.[2]

Finch began working as co-editor for the BBC television documentary series Arena in the early 1970s.[2] 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[3] 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),[1] 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.[2][4]

Filmography[edit]

Film

  • The Errand (1980) (Short film)
  • The Caravaggio Conspiracy (1984)
  • Stonewall (1995)

TV movies

TV series

Year Title Notes
1986 Screen Two Episode "Shergar"
1988 Bergerac Episode "Whatever Lola Wants"
1992–1993 The Vampyr: A Soap Opera Miniseries

Documentary works[edit]

TV movies

TV series

Year Title Episode
1978 Omnibus "Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision" (Also producer)
Arena My Way
1981 Did You Miss Me?
Chelsea Hotel
1982 The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
1983 Kurt Vonnegut , Jr: "Deadeye Dick"
1988 Robert Mapplethorpe
1991 Kenneth Anger
1993 Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue
Pirates[5] (Also producer)
1994 Louise Bourgeois: No Trespassing

Executive producer

Accolades[edit]

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
1988 BAFTA TV Award Best Factual Series Arena TV series Nominated
1989 Won
1990 Nominated
1991 Nominated
1992 Nominated
1981 Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo Best Short Film The Errand Nominated
1995 BFI London Film Festival Audience Award Stonewall Won
1996 Frameline Film Festival Audience Award Won

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. See the corresponding entry in Dido and Aeneas discography).

References[edit]

  1. ^ Also featured as an episode in the Screen Two series
  1. ^ a b Forde, John (2006). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. London: Routledge. p. 217.
  2. ^ a b c Williams, Nigel (17 February 1995). "Obituary: Nigel Finch". The Independent. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  3. ^ "BBC Blogs - Arena Gazette - Tribute to Nigel Finch". BBC. 19 February 2015.
  4. ^ Levy, Emanuel (23 July 1996). "Riot Girls". The Advocate. Liberation Publications Inc.: 51–53.
  5. ^ "Arena: Radio Night - BBC Two England, 18 December 1993 - BBC Genome". BBC Genome. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  6. ^ Xtravaganza, Brooke; Christian, André; Corey, Dorian; Duprée, Paris (1 August 1991), Paris Is Burning, retrieved 28 April 2017

External links[edit]

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