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Basil Herbert Dean CBE (27 September 1888 – 22 April 1978) was an English actor, writer, producer and director in the theatre and in cinema.
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.
Dec 16, 2013 · Basil Dean, the primary focus of this paper, was a West End theatre impresario and later head of the Entertainments National Service Association. He might initially seem to be an establishment figure, producing fairly mainstream productions in the heart of Britain’s commercial theatre district.
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.
Basil Herbert Dean was born on 27 September 1888 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of a cigarette manufacturer. After leaving grammar school he worked in the Stock Exchange for two years, before beginning his professional career as an actor in 1906 with a touring company.
Apr 23, 1978 · LONDON, April 22 (AP)—Basil Dean, an actor, author, theatrical producer, stage.iind film director and head of British armed forces entertainment in two world wars, died today. He was...
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 appointed do so officially.
