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. 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.
Together with Leslie Henson, Dean set up and ran the Entertainments National Service Association, or ENSA, in 1939 to provide a wide range of entertainment for British armed forces personnel during the Second World War. After the war he resumed his West End career successfully but without regaining his pre-war dominance.
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...
Winton BasilDean (18 March 1916 – 19 December 2013) was an English musicologist of the 20th century, most famous for his research on the life and works—in...
Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation established in 1939 by BasilDean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel...
time for him to move into films. In 1934 she approached the producer BasilDean, the head of Associated Talking Pictures (ATP). Although he expressed...
Barker Studios from 1902. From 1929, it was acquired by theatre producer BasilDean, who founded Associated Talking Pictures Ltd. He was joined on the management...
graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to BasilDean. He later changed his own name to Dearden to avoid confusion with his...
stage. He worked in the companies of Sybil Thorndike, John Gielgud and BasilDean. His performances included Port Said by Emlyn Williams (1931), Below the...
Title Release Date Director Escape! September 1930 BasilDean Birds of Prey November 1930 BasilDean Sally in Our Alley July 1931 Maurice Elvey A Honeymoon...
teenage Betty Driver, with whom she feuded. In later films, producer BasilDean avoided visiting the studio during filming, and director Monty Banks tried...
1932 she worked with directors such as Harry Lachman, Maurice Elvey and BasilDean. In 1933, Hitchcock hired Joan Harrison as his assistant, and she assumed...
1842", "May 1843" 2008 Mutual Friends Carl Cato 4 episodes 2009 Gracie! BasilDean TV movie 2010 The Taking of Prince Harry Jack Pastor 2011 Midsomer Murders...
Agreement Phil Stanley George Pearson Look Up and Laugh Marjorie Belfer BasilDean Associated Talking Pictures Fire Over England 1937 Cynthia William K....
filmed in 1928 by Adrian Brunel and Alma Reville, directed by Brunel and BasilDean, and starring Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton and Benita Hume, and again in...
regularly in plays and farces at the Strand and Aldwych theatres, directed by BasilDean. She starred with Peter Coke in the 1938 thriller Death on the Table and...
1919 play The First and the Last by John Galsworthy. It was directed by BasilDean and stars Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and Leslie Banks. The film was...
was also adapted for the stage in 1929 by British theatrical producer BasilDean. The production featured Laurence Olivier in the lead role and fellow...
throughout the 1920s and 1930s. At the start of World War II, together with BasilDean, he helped to form ENSA, with which he entertained British troops abroad...
This connection ended when Wallace died in February 1932. Taken on by BasilDean, Reed worked for his Associated Talking Pictures, successively for ATP...
live-in partner and a lucky charm for his career. She introduced him to BasilDean and his first part on the London stage in Hassan, followed by a season...
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