Basil Dean was an actor, playwright, producer and director on the British stage from the age of eighteen. His best known work as a playwright was The Constant Nymph, which would be filmed on three separate occasions, twice by Dean himself. In 1929, Dean journeyed to New York to direct The Return of Sherlock Holmes, which represented the Great Detective's talkie debut. Back in England in 1932, he formed Associated Talking Pictures, an important film factory which later evolved into Ealing Studios (one of his Ealing associates was Basil Dearden, who'd been born Basil Dear but who changed his name so as not to be confused with Dean). By helping to develop such British cinema favorites as George Formby and Gracie Fields, Dean established himself as one of the most commercially successful directors in the business, though the films themselves were not bastions of creativity. During the 1940s, Basil Dean was the prime mover behind Britain's USO-like Entertainment National Service Organization, or ESNA.
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The Constant Nymph
Book Author, Play Author, Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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21 Days
Associate Producer, Director, Screenwriter |
1940 | |||
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It's in the Air
Producer |
1940 | |||
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I See Ice
Producer |
1938 | |||
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Penny Paradise
Producer |
1938 | |||
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Feather Your Nest
Producer |
1937 | |||
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Keep Fit
Producer |
1937 | |||
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The Show Goes On
Director, Producer |
1937 | |||
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Keep Your Seats Please
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Laburnum Grove
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Queen of Hearts
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Scotland Yard Commands
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Sensation
Play Author |
1936 | |||
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Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and his Wife
Director, Producer |
1936 | |||
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Java Head
Producer |
1935 | |||
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Look up and Laugh
Director, Producer |
1935 | |||
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Midshipman Easy
Producer |
1935 | |||
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No Limit
Producer |
1935 | |||
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Lorna Doone
Director, Producer |
1934 | |||
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Love, Life and Laughter
Producer |
1934 | |||
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Loyalties
Director, Producer |
1934 | |||
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Sing As We Go
Director, Producer |
1934 | |||
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Autumn Crocus
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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The Constant Nymph
Director, Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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Three Men in a Boat
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Footsteps in the Night
Producer, Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Looking on the Bright Side
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Love on the Spot
Producer |
1932 | |||
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Nine Till Six
Director, Producer |
1932 | |||
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The Sign of Four
Producer |
1932 | |||
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The Water Gypsies
Producer, Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Woman in Bondage
Director, Producer |
1932 | |||
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Sally in Our Alley
Producer |
1931 | |||
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The Perfect Alibi
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Birds of Prey
Director, Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Escape
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Director, Screenwriter |
1929 | |||
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The Constant Nymph
Producer |
1928 |