Bill Dean
September 3, 1921 · 104 years old
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 Loa…
Known For
5 titles
Scum
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.
Priest
A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.
Family Life
A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.
Gumshoe
Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts fallin...
Rising Damp
Landlord Rigsby scams lodgers Cooper and Philip into sharing a room. His favorite tenant, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip, annoying Rigsby. When new lodger Seymour arrives, Miss Jones falls for him, leaving Rigsby's love for her un...