Isabel Dean

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Isabel Dean , real name Isabel Hodgkinson , (born May 29, 1918 in Aldridge , Staffordshire , United Kingdom , † July 29, 1997 in London-Wandsworth ) was a British actress in stage, film and television.

Live and act

Isabel Dean studied painting at Birmingham Art School as a teenager and joined the Cheltenham Repertory touring stage as a set painter in 1937. Grabbed by the theater fever, Dean soon took acting lessons and got her first little roles on this very stage. This was followed by appearances on repertoire stages in Brighton and Norwich, before she made her London debut on May 1, 1940 in a performance of Agatha Christie's crime play " Peril at End House ". Soon she had received her first Shakespeare role with Mariana in All's Well . With Jenny in the comedy " Love for Love ", Isabel Dean achieved her artistic breakthrough at the side of John Gielgud .

The following year she joined Gielgud's stage company at London's Haymarket Theater. With the Ophelia in Hamlet she was granted another notable success, and Dean subsequently appeared again with the Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream in a Shakespeare play. After various appearances in London West End productions and first roles in British television productions in the early post-war period, Isabel Dean temporarily returned to the English provinces and played in Oxford and Brighton theaters. Here she was also allowed to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet for the first time . In the course of the early 1950s, film and television became more and more important in Dean's career, and the artist was given supporting and leading roles in quite different productions. She often embodied ladies through and through: always elegant and often aloof, from a good family and with the best of manners.

Dean was at home in front of the camera in the social play as well as in science fiction horror ( "The Quatermass Experiment" ), in the crime film as in the literary adaptation, but you could rarely see her in a comedy. Despite intensive work in front of the camera, Isabel Dean remained loyal to the theater and has now played several times in contemporary plays, for example based on models by John Osborne , Joe Orton and Terence Rattigan . After several decades, there was again a collaboration with John Gielgud in 1977. At last only subscribed to distinguished women of society and mothers, Isabel Dean finished her work in front of the camera in 1990.

Filmography

  • 1943: The Man in Gray ( The Man in Gray )
  • 1947: Afterglow
  • 1948: Berkeley Square
  • 1948: The Great Passion ( The Passionate Friends )
  • 1949: The Happiest Days of Your Life
  • 1950: Man of Two Minds
  • 1951: Nocturne in Scotland
  • 1952: Blackmailer ( The Last Page )
  • 1952: Another Language
  • 1952: 24 Hours of a Woman's Life
  • 1953: The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
  • 1953: The Quatermass Experiment (TV series)
  • 1954: Out of the Clouds
  • 1955: Handcuffs, London
  • 1957: Davy
  • 1958: Virgin Island
  • 1960: A Life of Bliss (TV series)
  • 1960: Barnaby Rudge (TV series)
  • 1962: Light in the Piazza ( Light in the Piazza )
  • 1964: Storm over Jamaica ( A High Wind in Jamaica )
  • 1965: 199 Park Lane (TV series)
  • 1965: Welcome, Mister B. ( A Man Could Get Killed )
  • 1967: Inadmissible Evidence
  • 1968: Oh! What a lovely war
  • 1971: Sense and Sensibility (TV series)
  • 1971: Catch Me a Spy
  • 1973: The Man in the Wood
  • 1973: Life and Soul
  • 1974: The Aweful Mr. Goodall (TV series)
  • 1974: The clock is running out ( ransomware )
  • 1975: Couples (TV series)
  • 1975: Vagabund in 1000 Needs ( The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones )
  • 1976: Me, Claudius - Kaiser and God (TV series)
  • 1977: Ripping Yarns (TV series, an episode)
  • 1979: Company and Co. (TV series)
  • 1979: The lion shows the claws ( Rough Cut )
  • 1981: On the Edge of the Abyss ( Five Days One Summer )
  • 1983: Life As We Know ( The Weather in the Streets )
  • 1985: The Understanding
  • 1986: A Dangerous Kind of Love
  • 1989: Albert Champion (TV series)
  • 1990: Inspector Morse (TV series, an episode)

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personal data
SURNAME Dean, Isabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodgkinson, Isabel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British stage, film and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Aldridge , Staffordshire , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1997
Place of death London Wandsworth