crossed this divide. As Rattigan lay dying, he was asked by the BBC to make a filmed obituary. At the time, he was one with the radical tendency. But then he read the plays."I thought, 'Crikey, I'm wrong, we have done this man an injustice!'"
He visited him in hospital not long before his death to show him the film. Rattigan wept and asked Darlow to write his biography, telling him to ignore any resistance from his friends. He finally succumbed to bone cancer in 1977, aged 66, in Bermuda. He died a rich man. Some of his plays had been filmed and he was the writer of several successful films. But he still could not get over rejection by his theatrical peers.
from Bryan Appleyard: from The Sunday Times: On Rattigan
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