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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...
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  • 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...
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    Barker Studios from 1902. From 1929, it was acquired by theatre producer Basil Dean, who founded Associated Talking Pictures Ltd. He was joined on the management...
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  • Winton Basil Dean (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...
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    stage. He worked in the companies of Sybil Thorndike, John Gielgud and Basil Dean. His performances included Port Said by Emlyn Williams (1931), Below the...
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    Title Release Date Director Escape! September 1930 Basil Dean Birds of Prey November 1930 Basil Dean Sally in Our Alley July 1931 Maurice Elvey A Honeymoon...
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    Service Association (ENSA) was an organisation established in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel...
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    time for him to move into films. In 1934 she approached the producer Basil Dean, the head of Associated Talking Pictures (ATP). Although he expressed...
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    and Basil Dean. This version starred Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton and Benita Hume. It was adapted again in 1933 by Dorothy Farnum and directed by Dean. It...
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    teenage Betty Driver, with whom she feuded. In later films, producer Basil Dean avoided visiting the studio during filming, and director Monty Banks tried...
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  • 1842", "May 1843" 2008 Mutual Friends Carl Cato 4 episodes 2009 Gracie! Basil Dean TV movie 2010 The Taking of Prince Harry Jack Pastor 2011 Midsomer Murders...
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    1932 she worked with directors such as Harry Lachman, Maurice Elvey and Basil Dean. In 1933, Hitchcock hired Joan Harrison as his assistant, and she assumed...
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    filmed in 1928 by Adrian Brunel and Alma Reville, directed by Brunel and Basil Dean, and starring Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton and Benita Hume, and again in...
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  • of the same name by Margaret Kennedy and the 1926 play by Kennedy and Basil Dean and directed by Edmund Goulding. Belgian composer Lewis Dodd's latest...
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    Addinsell accompanying her at the piano. In late 1943 the head of ENSA, Basil Dean, invited the two to tour troop camps and hospitals in North Africa, the...
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    Agreement Phil Stanley George Pearson Look Up and Laugh Marjorie Belfer Basil Dean Associated Talking Pictures Fire Over England 1937 Cynthia William K....
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  • Loyalties (1933 film) (category Films directed by Basil Dean)
    Loyalties is a 1933 British drama film directed by Basil Dean and starring Basil Rathbone, Heather Thatcher and Miles Mander. It is based on the 1922...
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    throughout the 1920s and 1930s. At the start of World War II, together with Basil Dean, he helped to form ENSA, with which he entertained British troops abroad...
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  • Sing As We Go (category Films directed by Basil Dean)
    Music sheet for song "Love" Directed by Basil Dean Written by J.B. Priestley Gordon Wellesley Produced by Basil Dean Starring Gracie Fields John Loder Dorothy...
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  • was also adapted for the stage in 1929 by British theatrical producer Basil Dean. The production featured Laurence Olivier in the lead role and fellow...
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    the robot Helena holding a robot baby in the final scene. In April 1923 Basil Dean produced R.U.R. in Britain for the Reandean Company at St Martin's Theatre...
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  • This connection ended when Wallace died in February 1932. Taken on by Basil Dean, Reed worked for his Associated Talking Pictures, successively for ATP...
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  • regularly in plays and farces at the Strand and Aldwych theatres, directed by Basil Dean. She starred with Peter Coke in the 1938 thriller Death on the Table and...
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    fringe productions, but West End stardom was elusive. In 1926 the producer Basil Dean offered Gielgud the lead role, Lewis Dodd, in a dramatisation of Margaret...
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  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929 film) (category Films directed by Basil Dean)
    1929 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Basil Dean and written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Dean and Garrett Fort. The film shares its title with...
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    (1928) (later adapted for the film Birds of Prey (1930), directed by Basil Dean) The Ivory Door (1929) Toad of Toad Hall (1929) (adaptation of The Wind...
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  • established as the most talented young actress in England, under contract to Basil Dean...the warmth and sympathy of her personality was like a lodestar in my...
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  • Representatives from the Sheridan County district In office 1939–1941 Serving with Basil Dean, George Messick, Robert J. Thirwell Personal details Nationality American...
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  • made at Shepperton Studios. Although he is not credited in the film, Basil Dean, who was married to the leading lady Victoria Hopper, was heavily involved...
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    Reinhardt's The Miracle, staged in London and Fifinella, directed by Basil Dean, for the Liverpool Repertory Theatre (now the Liverpool Playhouse). Charles...
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