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Basil Dearden is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director and Script British born on 1 january 1911 at Westcliff-on-Sea (United-kingdom)
Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.
C'est au sein des studios Ealing qu'il commence sa carrière de cinéaste en coréalisant des comédies avec Will Hay, dont The Goose Steps Out (1942) et My Learned Friend (1943). En 1945, il figure parmi les auteurs du classique du cinéma d'épouvante Au cœur de la nuit (Dead of Night). L'un de ses derniers films de sa période Ealing est La Lampe bleue (The Blue Lamp, 1950), un drame policier dans lequel apparaissait pour la première fois le personnage de "Dixon de Dock Green".
Plus tard dans sa carrière, il s'associe avec l'écrivain et producteur Michael Relph, et ensemble ils dirigent des films aux sujets rarement abordés dans des films des années 1950 et du début des années 1960. Parmi ces thèmes : l'homosexualité, dans La Victime (Victim, 1961) et les relations interraciales dans Les Trafiquants du Dunbar (Pool of London, 1951) et Opération Scotland Yard (Sapphire, 1959). À la fin des années 1960, Dearden met également en scène quelques films à grand spectacle comme Khartoum (1966), avec Charlton Heston, et la comédie noire située dans le cadre de l'époque victorienne : Assassinats en tous genres (The Assassination Bureau, 1969), produit par Relph.
Son dernier film est La Seconde Mort d'Harold Pelham (The Man Who Haunted Himself) avec Roger Moore, avec lequel il avait également tourné quelques épisodes de la série télévisée Amicalement vôtre (The Persuaders!), et notamment le "pilote" intitulé Overture (Premier contact), diffusé sur ITV le 17 septembre 1971.
Dearden meurt à l'hôpital de Hillingdon en 1971 de blessures consécutives à un accident de la route. Il avait deux fils, Torquil Dearden et le scénariste et réalisateur James Dearden.
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Basil Dearden
Birth name Basil Dear
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 january 1911 at Westcliff-on-Sea (United-kingdom)
Death 23 march 1971 (at 60 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 january 1911 at Westcliff-on-Sea (United-kingdom)
Death 23 march 1971 (at 60 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Biography
Après avoir quitté tôt l'école, il travaille dans une compagnie d'assurances et fait du théâtre en amateur. Il entre dans la compagnie de Ben Greet puis travaille au théâtre de Fulham. En 1931 il devient régisseur pour Basil Dean en 1931. Puis, quand ce dernier passe du théâtre au cinéma, il le suit aux Ealing Studios. Il change son propre nom en Dearden pour éviter toute confusion avec son mentor.C'est au sein des studios Ealing qu'il commence sa carrière de cinéaste en coréalisant des comédies avec Will Hay, dont The Goose Steps Out (1942) et My Learned Friend (1943). En 1945, il figure parmi les auteurs du classique du cinéma d'épouvante Au cœur de la nuit (Dead of Night). L'un de ses derniers films de sa période Ealing est La Lampe bleue (The Blue Lamp, 1950), un drame policier dans lequel apparaissait pour la première fois le personnage de "Dixon de Dock Green".
Plus tard dans sa carrière, il s'associe avec l'écrivain et producteur Michael Relph, et ensemble ils dirigent des films aux sujets rarement abordés dans des films des années 1950 et du début des années 1960. Parmi ces thèmes : l'homosexualité, dans La Victime (Victim, 1961) et les relations interraciales dans Les Trafiquants du Dunbar (Pool of London, 1951) et Opération Scotland Yard (Sapphire, 1959). À la fin des années 1960, Dearden met également en scène quelques films à grand spectacle comme Khartoum (1966), avec Charlton Heston, et la comédie noire située dans le cadre de l'époque victorienne : Assassinats en tous genres (The Assassination Bureau, 1969), produit par Relph.
Son dernier film est La Seconde Mort d'Harold Pelham (The Man Who Haunted Himself) avec Roger Moore, avec lequel il avait également tourné quelques épisodes de la série télévisée Amicalement vôtre (The Persuaders!), et notamment le "pilote" intitulé Overture (Premier contact), diffusé sur ITV le 17 septembre 1971.
Dearden meurt à l'hôpital de Hillingdon en 1971 de blessures consécutives à un accident de la route. Il avait deux fils, Torquil Dearden et le scénariste et réalisateur James Dearden.
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The League of Gentlemen (1960)
, 1h56Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough, Kieron Moore
Roles Blackmailer (uncredited)
Rating71%
A manhole opens at night in an empty street and out climbs Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hyde (Jack Hawkins) in a dinner suit. He gets into a Rolls-Royce and drives home. There, he prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback called The Golden Fleece, ten £5-notes cut in half (i.e. £50 in total with the other halves) and an unsigned invitation from “Co-operative Removals Limited” to lunch at the Cafe Royal.
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The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
, 1h29Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Crime
Actors Roger Moore, Freddie Jones, Hildegarde Neil, Anton Rodgers, Olga Georges-Picot, Thorley Walters
Rating63%
Whilst driving his Rover P5B, uptight City worker Harold Pelham appears to become possessed and has a serious high-speed accident. On the operating table, he briefly suffers clinical death, after which there appear to be two heartbeats on the monitor. When he awakes, Pelham finds his life has been turned upside-down; in his job as a director of a marine technology company he learns that he now supports a merger that he once opposed, and that he apparently is having an affair. Friends, colleagues and acquaintances claim to have seen him in places where he has never been, and Pelham starts being followed by a mysterious silver car (a Lamborghini Islero). Does Pelham have a doppelgänger or is he actually going insane?
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
, 1h50Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Clive Revill, Vernon Dobtcheff
Rating63%
In London, during the early 1900s, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau, Limited. To bring about its destruction, she commissions the assassination of the bureau's own chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed).
Only When I Larf (1968)
, 1h44Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, Alexandra Stewart, Nicholas Pennell, Melissa Stribling, Terence Alexander
Rating59%
A trio of confidence tricksters (Attenborough, Hemmings and Stewart), attempt to swindle an African state into buying crates full of scrap metal instead of anti-tank guns.
Khartoum (1966)
, 2h14Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, Michael Hordern
Rating67%
In 1883, in the Sudan, a force of 10,000 poorly trained Egyptians under the command of British Col. William "Billy" Hicks (Edward Underdown) is lured into the desert and slaughtered by Muslim zealots led by Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier), a fanatic Sudanese Arab who believes he is the Mahdi, the prophesied "expected one of Mohammed." The British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (Ralph Richardson), who does not wish to send more military forces to Khartoum, is under great pressure to send military hero Major General Charles George Gordon (Charlton Heston) there to salvage the situation and restore British prestige. Gordon has strong ties to Sudan, having broken the slave trade there in the past, but Gladstone distrusts him. Gordon has a reputation for strong, if eccentric, religious beliefs and following his own judgement, regardless of his orders. Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, the British foreign secretary (Michael Hordern), knowing this, tells Gladstone that by sending Gordon to Khartoum, the British government can ignore all public pressure to send an army there, and absolve themselves of any responsibility over the area if Gordon ignores his orders. Gladstone is mildly shocked at the suggestion, but as it is popular with the public and Queen Victoria, he adopts it for the sake of expediency.
Masquerade (1965)
, 1h42Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Bill Fraser, Charles Gray
Rating55%
An Arab heir plots his own kidnapping in a desperate bid for peace in the Middle East.
Woman of Straw (1964)
, 2h2Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, Noel Howlett, Peter Madden
Rating67%
Connery's character Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond (Richardson) by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs (Lollobrigida), to marry him. After his uncle's demise Anthony becomes a murder suspect. Lollobrigida's character is the Woman of Straw of the title.
The Mind Benders (1963)
, 1h49Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Harold Goldblatt
Rating63%
Professor Sharpey commits suicide after subjecting himself to sensory deprivation experiments in a secret research laboratory. His former colleague Doctor Longman volunteers to undergo the same tests to try and establish what drove Sharpey to kill himself. He hopes to clear Sharpley's name with the police, who favour the theory that Sharpley was a double agent, perhaps allied with Communists, and that his death was the final result of his shame over betraying Great Britain. Longman begins subjecting himself to sessions in a sensory deprivation tank in order to prove that use of the technique can make one unusually suceptable to brainwashing or hypnotic suggestion.
A Place to Go (1963)
, 1h26Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Bernard Lee, Rita Tushingham, Mike Sarne, Doris Hare, Barbara Ferris, John Slater
Rating64%
Londres, dans le quartier de Bethnal Green alors en pleine reconstruction. Matt Flint a perdu son travail et est devenu un bateleur de rue. Son fils Ricky voudrait partir ailleurs mais a besoin d'argent, il accepte alors de participer à un cambriolage organisé par un ancien ami de Matt. Jim, le beau-frère de Ricky, accepte de prêter son camion pour ce vol. Au cynodrome, Ricky rencontre Cat, une amie de Charlie, un de membres du gang. Ricky et Cat se rencontrent dans un ancien abri anti-aérien. Le cambriolage échoue car Ricky n'arrive pas à matraquer un policier. Charlie se venge en mettant le feu au camion de Jim. Ricky est brûlé en tentant d'éteindre de feu et se retrouve à l'hôpital, Cat lui rend visite mais continue à voir Charlie.
The Mind Benders (1963)
, 1h49Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Keen, Norman Bird
Rating63%
Le professeur Sharpey s'est suicidé après avoir participé à une expérience de privation de sentiments dans un laboratoire secret. Son ancien collègue, le docteur Longman, se porte volontaire pour suivre la même expérience dans le but de prouver ce qui a réellement conduit Sharpey au suicide. Il espère ainsi laver le nom de son collègue de l'accusation d'être un agent double au bénéfice de communistes.
All Night Long (1962)
, 1h31Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Jazz films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Richard Attenborough, Betsy Blair, Bernard Braden, Harry Towb
Rating70%
The musician Aurelius Rex and his wife Delia, a retired singer, are the recipients of an anniversary party in London thrown by a wealthy music promoter, Rod Hamilton.
Life for Ruth (1962)
, 1h33Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Megs Jenkins, Michael Bryant
Rating70%
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Victim (1961)
, 1h36Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Dennis Price, Sylvia Syms, Nigel Stock, Peter McEnery, Anthony Nicholls
Rating76%
A successful barrister, Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) has a thriving London practice. He is on course to become a Queen's Counsel and people are already talking of his being appointed a judge. He is apparently happily married to his wife, Laura (Sylvia Syms).
The Secret Partner (1961)
, 1h31Directed by Basil Dearden, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, Hugh Burden, Lee Montague, Melissa Stribling
Rating65%
An executive officer with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the shipping company vault.
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
, 1h56Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough, Kieron Moore
Rating71%
A manhole opens at night in an empty street and out climbs Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hyde (Jack Hawkins) in a dinner suit. He gets into a Rolls-Royce and drives home. There, he prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback called The Golden Fleece, ten £5-notes cut in half (i.e. £50 in total with the other halves) and an unsigned invitation from “Co-operative Removals Limited” to lunch at the Cafe Royal.