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!!Comic Books
* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Cassidy, an Irish-born vampire who's spent the last seventy years or so in New York, claims to have hung out with Dylan Thomas the night he died. Notably, he accurately points out that, rather than dying ''in'' the White Horse, Thomas collapsed on the sidewalk ''outside'' it.
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-->''He's so unhip that when you say Dylan,
-->He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
-->Whoever he was.''

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* The Music/ManicStreetPreachers's album ''Resistance is Futile'' has a track called "Dylan and Caitlin" which is about the marriage of Dylan Thomas and Caitlin Macnamara.

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* The Music/ManicStreetPreachers's album ''Resistance is Futile'' has a track called "Dylan and Caitlin" which is about the marriage of Dylan Thomas and Thomas's relationship with his wife, Caitlin Macnamara.
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* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's 1966 song "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" includes the following line:
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* In ''[[Film/Solaris2002 Solaris]]'', Chris Kelvin (Creator/GeorgeClooney) reads the first stanza of "And Death Shall Have No Dominion".



* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's 1966 song "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)" includes the following line:
-->''He's so unhip, that when you say Dylan,
-->He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
-->Whoever he was.''



* "Sunset Poem", better known as the Reverend Eli Jenkins' evening prayer from ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood'', has been set to music and sung by Music/BrynTerfel, who included it in his album ''We'll Keep a Welcome''.

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* "Sunset Poem", better known as the Reverend Eli Jenkins' evening prayer from ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood'', has been set to music and sung by Music/BrynTerfel, who included it in his album ''We'll Keep a Welcome''.Welcome''.
* The Music/ManicStreetPreachers's album ''Resistance is Futile'' has a track called "Dylan and Caitlin" which is about the marriage of Dylan Thomas and Caitlin Macnamara.

!!Western Animation
* Some of the storylines of ''WesternAnimation/IvorTheEngine'' drew heavily on, and were influenced by, the works of Thomas.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Fore Father", an ill Stewie Griffin tells himself:
-->''Fight it Stewie, fight it. "Do not go gentle into that good night", to quote Music/BobDylan. Wait, no, wait, Dylan Thomas.''
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--->'''President''': We will not go quietly into the night!

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Dylan Thomas has proved to be ''very'' influential, especially on Creator/TheBeatGeneration that came after him, and those who were in turn influenced by them. References to his works crop up all over the place...

!!Films
* The President in ''Film/IndependenceDay'' misquotes from "Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight" during his rousing speech as he prepares to lead the attack against the alien invaders.
--->'''President''': We will not go quietly into the night!

!!Literature
* Llamedos, the UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} {{Expy}} in Creator/TerryPratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}}, is [[SdrawkcabName so named]] in homage to Llareggub in ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood''.

!!Live-action TV
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]", the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] quotes the line "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (from "Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight") to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who likes it.
* In the ''Series/MadMen'' episode "Out of Town", Ken Cosgrove partly quotes from "Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight" when referring to a colleague who has been fired.

!!Music
*An American musician by the name of [[Music/BobDylan Robert Zimmerman]] was so inspired by him that he adopted [[StageName a new surname]] in homage to him.
* The album ''Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood"'' (1965) by The Stan Tracey Quartet was, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], inspired by ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood''.
* He can be found somewhere on the cover of ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''.
* [[Music/TheKinks Ray Davies]] has stated that ''Music/TheKinksAreTheVillageGreenPreservationSociety'' was inspired by ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood''.
* "Sunset Poem", better known as the Reverend Eli Jenkins' evening prayer from ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood'', has been set to music and sung by Music/BrynTerfel, who included it in his album ''We'll Keep a Welcome''.

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