Basil Dean
British actor and filmmaker · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Lived 1888 to 1978 · aged 89
Basil Herbert Dean CBE 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 to do so officially.
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21 DaysFilm, Director, Writer1938
It's in the AirFilm, ProducerWhen We Are MarriedFilm, 1938Producer1937
Keep FitFilm, Producer1936
Keep Your Seats, PleaseFilm, Producer1935
Look Up and LaughFilm, Director, Producer1934
Autumn CrocusFilm, Director, Writer1933
LoyaltiesFilm, Director1932
Looking on the Bright SideFilm, Director, Writer1931
A Honeymoon AdventureFilm, Producer1930
Birds of PreyFilm, Director, Writer
Escape!Film, 1930Director, Producer1929
The Return of Sherlock HolmesFilm, Director, Writer1928
The Constant NymphFilm, Producer1888Born27 September 1888People around Basil
Gracie Fields Basil produced Look Up and Laugh (1935)
George Formby Basil produced No Limit (1935)
Florence Desmond Basil produced No Limit (1935)
John Loder Basil directed Whom the Gods Love (1936)- George Curzon Also in The Impassive Footman and Lorna Doone
Vivien Leigh Basil directed 21 Days and Look Up and Laugh
Carol Reed Directed Penny Paradise (1938)
Edmund Gwenn Basil produced Laburnum Grove and Penny Paradise
Alma Reville Also in The Constant Nymph (1928)
Clive Brook Basil produced The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)- Kay Walsh Basil produced I See Ice and Keep Fit
- Graham Cutts Also in Looking on the Bright Side (1932)
Enid Stamp Taylor Basil produced Keep Your Seats, Please (1936)
Owen Nares Basil produced The Show Goes On (1937)
J. B. Priestley Also in Sing As We Go and Look Up and Laugh
Margaret Lockwood Basil produced Midshipman Easy (1935)
Liane Haid Basil produced Whom the Gods Love (1936)
Roger Livesey Basil produced Midshipman Easy (1935)
Maurice Elvey Also in A Honeymoon Adventure (1931)
Mary Clare Basil directed The Constant Nymph (1933)
Cyril Ritchard Basil produced I See Ice (1938)- John Paddy Carstairs Also in A Honeymoon Adventure (1931)
Dorothy Farnum Also in The Constant Nymph and Autumn Crocus
Ivor Novello Basil produced Autumn Crocus (1934)
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After the war he produced and directed mostly in the West End. He staged premieres of plays by writers including J. M. Barrie, Noël Coward, John Galsworthy, Harley Granville-Barker and Somerset Maugham. He produced nearly 40 films, and directed 16, mainly in the 1930s, with stars including Gracie Fields.
