Film, TV and Books
Sutcliffe was portrayed by David Nicholas Wilkinson in the film Birth of The Beatles (1979) and by Lee Williams in In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000). Sutcliffe's role in the Beatles' early career, as well as the factors that led him to leave the group, is dramatised in the film Backbeat (1994), in which he was portrayed by American actor Stephen Dorff. Four television documentaries have been broadcast that deal with Sutcliffe's life:
- Midnight Angel (1990) Granada TV (networked) U.K.
- Exhibition (1991) Cologne, German TV
- Stuart, His life and Art (2005) BBC
- Stuart Sutcliffe, The Lost Beatle
Books about Sutcliffe:
- Backbeat, Stuart Sutcliffe, The Lost Beatle (1994) Alan Clayson and Pauline Sutcliffe
- Stuart, The Life and Art of Stuart Sutcliffe (1995) Pauline Sutcliffe and Kay Williams
- The Beatles Shadow, Stuart Sutcliffe, & his lonely hearts club (2001) Pauline Sutcliffe and Douglas Thompson
- Stuart Sutcliffe: a retrospective (2008) Matthew H. Clough and Colin Fallows
- Baby's in Black (2010) Arne Bellstorf
The Stuart Sutcliffe Estate sells memorabilia and artefacts of Sutcliffe's, which include poems written by him and the chords and lyrics to songs Lennon and Sutcliffe were learning.
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