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Career. Dearden graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to Basil Dean. He later changed his own name to Dearden to avoid confusion with his mentor. He wrote This Man Is News (1938), a hugely popular quota quickie [4] and wrote and directed a film for TV Under Suspicion (1939). He was assistant director on Penny ...
- Film director
- James Dearden, Torquil Dearden
- 1938–1970
Basil Dearden. Director: Sapphire. A former stage director, Basil Dearden entered films as an assistant to director Basil Dean (he changed his name from Dear to avoid being confused with Dean). Dearden worked his way up the ladder and directed (with Will Hay) his first film in 1941; two years later he directed his first film on his own.
- January 1, 1
- Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Director, Producer, Writer
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A former stage director, Basil Dearden entered films as an assistant to director Basil Dean (he changed his name from Dear to avoid being confused with Dean). Dearden worked his way up the ladder and directed (with Will Hay) his first film in 1941; two years later he directed his first film on his own.
- Basil Clive Dear
The Man Who Haunted Himself. The Man Who Haunted Himself is a 1970 British psychological thriller film written and directed by Basil Dearden (his final film prior to his death by car accident in 1971) and starring Roger Moore. It is based on the 1957 novel The Strange Case of Mr Pelham by Anthony Armstrong, [3] and is a variation on the Jekyll ...
- Michael Relph
- 18 July 1970 (Birmingham)
English. All Night Long is a 1962 British neo noir drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair, Paul Harris, Marti Stevens, and Richard Attenborough. The story by Nel King and Paul Jarrico (who wrote under the pseudonym "Peter Achilles") is an updated version of William Shakespeare 's Othello ...
- Michael Relph, Bob Roberts, Basil Dearden
Basil Dearden was born Basil Dear in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex on 1 January 1911. He left school early to work as an office boy in a London underwriting and insurance company. Experience in amateur dramatics led to work with the Ben Greet Company and to his appointment as assistant stage manager at the Grand Theatre, Fulham.
Aug 31, 2021 · That Victim was made and seen at all in a climate of such wrong-headed moral panic is remarkable. That Basil Dearden’s film stands six decades later as a vital queer text, for all its ...
