Ivor Dean
Ivor Donald Dean (born December 21, 1917 in London , † August 10, 1974 in Truro , Cornwall , England) was a British theater and film actor.
Life
German television viewers first became known with the Shakespeare actor Dean in the television series Simon Templar ( The Saint ) (from 1962), in which he played the pastille-sucking chief inspector Claude Eustace Teal alongside Roger Moore . He played another inspector in the late 1960s in the crime series Randall & Hopkirk - Detective Agency with Spirit . He also appeared again and again as a guest star in numerous other series, such as Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone ( The Avengers ), Jason King or Die 2 ( The Persuaders ).
However, Dean had his greatest success in Germany in 1966 in the role of Long John Silver in the ZDF adventure four-part series Die Schatzinsel by director Wolfgang Liebeneiner . The four-part series won the Perla television award in 1967 at the film and television fair in Milan . The German version interpreted Dean's Cockney accent by the actor Alf Marholm .
After the success of the four-part series, Dean had the idea of making a sequel and developed a script draft with the English director Robert S. Baker . However, when he died of heart failure in 1974, the project was shelved for the time being. It was not until 1986 under the title The Return to Treasure Island ( Return to Treasure Iceland ) the draft of the script disinterred and filmed as a ten-part series.
Filmography (selection)
- 1962: Danger by My Side
- 1966: Treasure Island (TV miniseries)
- 1967: The stranger in the house (Stranger in the House)
- 1967: Under the spell of Dr. Monserrat (The Sorcerers)
- 1967: The House of Secrets (Theater of Death)
- 1967: Million Robbery (Robbery)
- 1968: Salt and Pepper (Salt and Pepper)
- 1969: Agents Die Alone (Where Eagles Dare)
- 1969: Crooks and Coronets
- 1969: In the death grip of the red mask (The Oblong Box)
- 1969: The trail leads to Soho (The File of the Golden Goose)
- 1971: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde)
- 1972: The Two (The Persuaders) - Adel destroyed (A Death In The Family)
Web links
- Ivor Dean in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The treasure island with pictures from the series
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivor Dean in: Our television, 1952-1979: history and stories of the medium, the people, the stations and broadcasts , by Peter Kniewel, Springer, 1979, page 45
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dean, Ivor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dean, Ivor Donald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theater and film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1974 |
| Place of death | Truro , Cornwall , England |