A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (film)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Opening film credit
Directed by	Joseph Strick
Screenplay by	Judith Rascoe
Based on	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Produced by	Betty Botley Richard Hallinan
Starring	Bosco Hogan T. P. McKenna John Gielgud
Cinematography	Stuart Hetherington
Edited by	Lesley Walker
Music by	Stanley Myers
Production company	Ulysses Film Production Ltd.
Distributed by	United Artists Ireland (original) TriStar Pictures Ireland (DVD/VHS)
Release date	September 1977 (1977-09)(UK)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Ireland
Language	English

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a 1977 film adaptation of Irish novelist James Joyce's 1916 novel of the same name, directed by Joseph Strick. ^{[1] [2]} It portrays the growth of consciousness of Joyce's semi-autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, as a boy and later as a university student in late nineteenth-century Dublin. ^{[3] [4]}

Cast

• Bosco Hogan – Stephen Dedalus
• T. P. McKenna – Simon Dedalus
• John Gielgud – The Preacher
• Rosaleen Linehan – Mary (May) Dedalus
• Maureen Potter – Mrs. Dante Riordan
• Niall Buggy – Davin
• Bryan Murray – Lynch
• Desmond Cave – Cranly
• Leslie Lalor – Milly
• Desmond Perry – John Casey
• Susan Fitzgerald – Emma Daniels
• Luke Johnston – Stephen Dedalus, age ten
• Danny Figgis – Wells
• Cecil Sheehan – Uncle Charles
• Edward Golden – Father Conmee
• Bill Foley – Confessor
• David Kelly – Dean of Studies
• Edward Byrne – Teacher
• Emmet Bergin – Father Dolan
• Aiden Grennell – Father Arnall
• Danny Cummins – Drinker
• Chris Curran – Auctioneer
• Brendan Cauldwell – Father Michael
• Eamon Kelly
• Anna Manahan
• Maureen Toal
• Jacinta Martin
• Chris O'Neill
• Brenda Doyle
• Deirdre Donnelly

Children

• Dominic Burdick
• Gray Burdick
• Linus Burdick
• Ashling Burdick
• Lucy Burdick
• Katy Burdick
• Tiernan Quinn
• Sean Pilkington
• Kenneth Joyce
• Joan Hayes
• John Hayes
• James Lennon
• Ronan Donelan
• Ian Branagan
• Terence Strick – Stephen Dedalus, age three (uncredited)
• Helen Strick

References

1. "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (1977)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 May 2018.
2. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Internet Movie Database. Retrieved: 2012-05-12.
3. Canby, Vincent (22 April 1979). "Screen: Strick's Version Of 'Portrait of an Artist'" – via NYTimes.com.
4. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977) - Joseph Strick - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.

Further reading

• Canby, Vincent (22 April 1979). "Screen: Strick's Version Of 'Portrait of an Artist'". The New York Times.

External links

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at IMDb
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at Rotten Tomatoes