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Dread Poets' Society

Dread Poets' Society

Drama, TV Movie

30m

September 23, 1992 (32 years ago)

Overview

Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!

ActorAge thenAge now
Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

Self

Birthday: April 15, 1958

34 December 7, 2023 (65)
Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall

Derek

Birthday: February 27, 1957

3568
Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding

Mary Shelley

Birthday: July 10, 1966

2659
Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

Shelley

Birthday: January 27, 1965

2760
Alex Jennings

Alex Jennings

Byron

Birthday: May 10, 1957

3568
Dexter Fletcher

Dexter Fletcher

Keats

Birthday: January 31, 1966

2659