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Eddie Dean (born Edgar Dean Glosup; () July 9, 1907 – () March 4, 1999) was an American Western singer and actor. His smooth baritone impressed both Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, who considered Dean the best cowboy singer of all time. Eddie Dean's show-business career began in 1937, as a radio singer.
Actor: Range Beyond the Blue. Eddie Dean made his name as a country-western singer on radio in the '30s. He journeyed to Hollywood to make it in western movies, debuting in Manhattan Love Song (1934), but he could only land bit parts in features and musical shorts.
- July 9, 1907
- March 4, 1999
Singer/songwriter/actor Eddie Dean was described by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers as the greatest singing cowboy of all time. The seventh son of a seventh son, he was born on July 9, 1907 in...
Eddie Dean. Actor: Range Beyond the Blue. Eddie Dean made his name as a country-western singer on radio in the '30s. He journeyed to Hollywood to make it in western movies, debuting in Manhattan Love Song (1934), but he could only land bit parts in features and musical shorts.
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- Posey, Texas, USA
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- Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA
Mar 9, 1999 · Edgar Dean Glosup (Eddie Dean), singer, songwriter, actor: born Posey, Texas 9 July 1907; married 1931 Lorene Donnelly (one son, one daughter); died Newhall, California 4 March 1999.
Eddie Dean was an American western singer and actor whom Roy Rogers and Gene Autry termed the best cowboy singer of all time. Dean was best known for "I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven", which became an even greater hit for Tex Ritter in 1961.
Mar 5, 1999 · Eddie Dean, one of the last singing cowboy stars of the 1940s, died Thursday of heart and lung disease in Thousand Oaks. He was 91. Known as the golden-throated cowboy for an exceptionally...
