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Years active. 1906–1961. Basil Herbert Dean CBE (27 September 1888 – 22 April 1978) was an English actor, writer, producer and director in the theatre and in cinema. He founded the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1911 and in the First World War, after organising unofficial entertainments for his comrades in the army, he was ...
Basil Dean (1888 - 1978) fue un guionista y director de Reino Unido conocido por 21 días juntos, Loyalties, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Constant Nymph, Birds of Prey, Lorna Doone, Look Up and Laugh, Sing As We Go!, La ninfa constante y Looking on the Bright Side.
Producer: Mozart. Basil Dean first appeared as an actor on the British stage in 1906. He soon switched careers and began writing and directing plays. Turning to the film industry, he became a producer and director in 1928; many of the films he produced and directed were based on his own stage plays.
Producer: Mozart. Basil Dean first appeared as an actor on the British stage in 1906. He soon switched careers and began writing and directing plays. Turning to the film industry, he became a producer and director in 1928; many of the films he produced and directed were based on his own stage plays.
Basil Dean is a paradoxical figure in British cinema. Representing a theatrical approach to film-making much despised by modern critics, he is also responsible as producer for some of the most domestically successful films of the 1930s, and for establishing British cinema's two biggest stars of the period, George Formby and Gracie Fields.
Physical Description. 14 series; 13,046 items. Location. Collection available at John Rylands Library, Deansgate. Scope and Content. The Basil Dean Archive contains over fourteen thousand items and covers most aspects of Dean's long and varied career, which spanned almost sixty years.
Basil Dean. Writers. Margaret Kennedy. Gordon Wellesley. Stars. Stephen Haggard. Victoria Hopper. John Loder. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. 2 User reviews. Awards. 1 nomination. Photos. Add photo. Top cast. Edit. Stephen Haggard. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Victoria Hopper. Constance Mozart. John Loder.
