Basil Dean

Basil Herbert Dean ( born September 27, 1888 in Croydon, † 22 April 1978 London - Westminster) was a British film director, film producer, writer, actor and screenwriter with cinematic main operating time in the 1930s.

Life

Dean began his career in 1906 as an actor at the theater in Bristol and celebrated first minor success in London's West End plays. Then he tried his hand as a playwright. 1927 Dean tied the first contact to the film industry when he wrote the screenplay for the first film version of his play ' The Constant Nymph ', a gambling in Tirol romance.

With the beginning of the sound film era Dean turned to film directing. Most of his productions the next decade - comedies, adventure stories, mysteries and musical materials - he produced in our own production. 1932 founded Basil Dean with The Associated Talking Pictures, named ATP, his own production company. At the outbreak of World War II Dean finished his work in film largely.

Still in 1939 he founded the Entertainments National Service Association, an umbrella organization for touring artists whose abbreviation ENSA form "given the sometimes amateur performances of its members offered occasion for malapropisms (eg Every Night Something Awful ) ". Dean was also regarded as a pioneer of British television.

Filmography

Directed and produced, unless otherwise stated