Bill Dean

Bill Dean

Birthday: 1921-09-03

Deathday: 2000-04-20

Place of birth: Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0212674

Biography:

Bill Dean was a British actor who was born in Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire. He was born Patrick Anthony Connolly, but took his stage name in honour of Everton football legend William 'Dixie' Dean. After a atring of jobs, it was his work as a Lancashire club comedian that saw him spotted by Ken Loach who gave him his breakthrough role in his TV play The Golden Vision. Famous for his flat but penetrating Scouse tones, Dean went on to star as miserable pensioner Harry Cross in the long running Channel 4 soap Brookside from its inception in 1983 to 1990. He briefly returned to the series in 1999 for three episodes, when his character re-appeared in Brookside Close suffering from Alzheimer's disease and wrongly believing that he still lived there. The same character was the inspiration behind the 1980s group 'Jegsy Dodd and the sons of Harry Cross' who hailed from the Wirral and Dean himself appeared in the video of the Liverpudlian band The Farm's Groovy Train as Cross, who was a former train driver. He did of a heart attack aged 78 in 2000.

Played in movies:

Kes

Score: 7.5

Family Life

Score: 7.2

Flame

Score: 7.2

Scum

Score: 7.1

Hillsborough

Score: 7.0

Let Him Have It

Score: 6.6

Night Watch

Score: 6.3

Gumshoe

Score: 6.3

Priest

Score: 6.3

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business

Score: 6.2

The Mirror Crack'd

Score: 6.1

Roll On Four O'Clock

Score: 6.0

Rising Damp

Score: 5.5

Brookside: Friday the 13th

Score: 5.5

The Big Flame

Score: 5.0

The Golden Vision

Score: 5.0

The Rank and File

Score: 5.0

Going Gently

Score: 5.0

Slayground

Score: 4.1

Skallagrigg

Score: 1.0

Freedom of the Dig

Score: 0.0

Bank Holiday

Score: 0.0

A Turn for the Worse

Score: 0.0

After a Lifetime

Score: 0.0

Bag of Yeast

Score: 0.0

Speech Day

Score: 0.0

Night People

Score: 0.0

Break In

Score: 0.0

Beasts: What Big Eyes

Score: 0.0

In Sickness and in Health

Score: 0.0

Waiting at the Field Gate

Score: 0.0

Match of the Day

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Expert

Score: 10.0

Public Eye

Score: 7.8

The Sweeney

Score: 7.8

Pennies from Heaven

Score: 7.6

Heartbeat

Score: 7.1

BBC2 Play of the Week

Score: 7.0

Budgie

Score: 7.0

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

Man in a Suitcase

Score: 7.0

Beasts

Score: 7.0

Minder

Score: 6.8

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Score: 6.3

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Score: 6.3

Justice

Score: 6.0

The Wackers

Score: 5.5

The Gathering Seed

Score: 0.0