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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. 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.
Basil Dean. 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.
- September 27, 1888
- April 22, 1978
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. Born September 27, 1888.
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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. 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.
Aug 29, 2013 · Otto Kahn to Basil Dean, 12 March 1926, DEA 1/1/1363, Basil Dean Archive. Because Kahn had organized the Moscow Art Theatre's 1923–4 tour of the United States, one might have assumed that he knew My Life and Art. However, he wrote to Dean that “I have not read it as yet but shall do so on the strength of your recommendation.”
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.
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Other articles where Basil Dean is discussed: Ealing Studios: …of England’s best known producers, Basil Dean and Reginald Baker, with the financial support of the Courtauld family, manufacturers of textiles, the company opened its own distribution outlet within two years and built the studios at Ealing near London. It produced several vaudeville-style musical comedies as well as serious ...
