Isabel Dean
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Isabel Dean was an English film and television actress.
Born as Isabel Hodgkinson on 29 May 1918 in Aldridge, Staffordshire
. She studied painting at the Birmingham Art School and from 1937 joined the Cheltenham Repertory Company as a scenic artist. She was soon involved in acting with some small parts.
's Peril at End House
. Her stage appearances included The Deep Blue Sea, Breaking the Code
and John Osborne
's The Hotel in Amsterdam, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
In 1949 she appeared in "the Foolish Gentlewoman" at the Duchess Theatre in London.
and went on to make many television appearances including Inspector Morse
. She appeared with Paul Scofield
in an ITV
Saturday Night Theatre
production of The Hotel in Amsterdam broadcast on 14 March 1971. Among her film appearances she was in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
and the film version of Inadmissible Evidence
.
Born as Isabel Hodgkinson on 29 May 1918 in Aldridge, Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
. She studied painting at the Birmingham Art School and from 1937 joined the Cheltenham Repertory Company as a scenic artist. She was soon involved in acting with some small parts.
Theatre
By 1940 she was appearing on stage in London in Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
's Peril at End House
Peril at End House (play)
Peril at End House is a 1940 play based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The play is by Arnold Ridley, who much later played Private Godfrey in Dad's Army....
. Her stage appearances included The Deep Blue Sea, Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code is a 1986 play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II...
and John Osborne
John Osborne
John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
's The Hotel in Amsterdam, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
In 1949 she appeared in "the Foolish Gentlewoman" at the Duchess Theatre in London.
Television & film
By 1953 she was also appearing on British television in The Quatermass ExperimentThe Quatermass Experiment
The Quatermass Experiment is a British science-fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television in the summer of 1953 and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005. Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, it tells the story of the first manned flight into space, overseen by...
and went on to make many television appearances including Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse (TV series)
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....
. She appeared with Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE , better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen...
in an ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
Saturday Night Theatre
Saturday Night Theatre
Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been lanched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, books adaptations and...
production of The Hotel in Amsterdam broadcast on 14 March 1971. Among her film appearances she was in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert and Sullivan authored 14 comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which became the most popular series of musical...
and the film version of Inadmissible Evidence
Inadmissible Evidence
Inadmissible Evidence is a play written by John Osborne in November 1964. It was also filmed in 1968.The protagonist of the play is William Maitland, a middle-aged English solicitor who has come to hate his entire life. Much of the play consists of lengthy monologues in which Maitland tells the...
.
Radio
- Paul TemplePaul TemplePaul Temple is a fictional character created by British writer Francis Durbridge for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple in 1938. Temple is an amateur private detective and author of crime fiction...
, BBC - "The Reluctant Peer" by William Douglas-HomeWilliam Douglas-HomeWilliam Douglas Home was court-martialled in World War II for his refusal to obey orders as a British army officer and later became a successful British dramatist.-Early life:...
broadcast on BBC (1967) - The Bird Table (1982)
- A Photograph of Lindsey Mowatt (1986) by Ellen Dryden
Personal life
In 1953 Dean married William Fairchild. They had two daughters, Caroline and Angela. The marriage was later dissolved.Selected filmography
- The Passionate FriendsThe Passionate FriendsThe Passionate Friends is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean. The film is based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel, a 1913 story by H. G. Wells It describes a love triangle in which a woman cannot give up her affair with another man...
(1949) - Twice Upon a Time (1953)
- The Story of Gilbert and SullivanThe Story of Gilbert and SullivanThe Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert and Sullivan authored 14 comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which became the most popular series of musical...
(1953) - Handcuffs, London (1955)
- Out of the CloudsOut of the CloudsOut of the Clouds is a 1955 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Anthony Steel, Sid James and James Robertson Justice. An Ealing Studios film, it follows the lives of the passengers and crew on a day at an airport that was filmed in Heathrow Airport.-Description:The film was...
(1955) - Virgin IslandVirgin Island (film)Virgin Island is a 1959 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell and Sidney Poitier. It is an adaptation of the novel Our Virgin Island by Robb White...
(1958) - Light in the Piazza (1962)
- A High Wind in JamaicaA High Wind in Jamaica (film)A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 film, based on the novel of the same name, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick for the 20th Century-Fox studio. It starred Anthony Quinn and James Coburn as the pirates who capture the children....
(1965) - Welcome, Mr. Beddoes (1966)
- Rough Cut (1980)