Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch was an English film director and filmmaker whose career influenced the growth of British gay cinema Finch began working as coeditor 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 BAFTAnominated drama The Lost Language of Cranes and the musical soap opera The Vampyr Finch died from AIDSrelated illness in London in 1995 during postproduction of his first fulllength feature film Stonewall a docudrama loosely based on events leading up to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City
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