Biography: life and films
Basil Dearden was an English film director whose birth name was Basil Clive Dear. He was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England on 1st January 1911 and died in London, England on 23rd March 1971, aged 60.His best films as a film director include My Learned Friend (1943), Dead of Night (1945), The Captive Heart (1946), Victim (1961) and A Place to Go (1963), and whose best work as a screenwriter include John Paddy Carstairs's Spare a Copper (1941), Man in the Moon (1960) and The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970).
Basil Dearden directed 41 films and scripted 10 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Marcel Varnel (2 films).
His most frequent genres include: drama (29 films), comedy (15), Thriller (7), War (6), Fantasy (3), romance (2), history (2), crime-thriller (2), comedy-thriller (2) and Horror (2).
Our average rating for Basil Dearden over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: d = director; w = writer
This Man Is News (1938) [w]
Let George Do It! (1940) [w]
Turned Out Nice Again (1941) [w]
The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) [d]
The Goose Steps Out (1942) [d]
My Learned Friend (1943) [d]
The Bells Go Down (1943) [d]
They Came to a City (1945) [d,w]
Frieda (1947) [d]
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) [d]
Train of Events (1949) [d,w]
Cage of Gold (1950) [d]
Pool of London (1951) [d]
I Believe in You (1952) [d,w]
The Gentle Gunman (1952) [d]
The Square Ring (1953) [d]
The Rainbow Jacket (1954) [d]
Out of the Clouds (1955) [d]
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) [d]
The Green Man (1956) [d]
Who Done It? (1956) [d]
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) [d]
Nowhere to Go (1958) [d]
Violent Playground (1958) [d]
Sapphire (1959) [d]
Man in the Moon (1960) [d,w]
The League of Gentlemen (1960) [d]
The Secret Partner (1961) [d]
Victim (1961) [d]
All Night Long (1962) [d]
Life for Ruth (1962) [d]
The Mind Benders (1962) [d]
A Place to Go (1963) [d]
Woman of Straw (1964) [d]
Masquerade (1965) [d]
Khartoum (1966) [d]
Only When I Larf (1968) [d]
The Assassination Bureau (1969) [d]
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) [d,w]
Mission: Monte Carlo (1974) [d]
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