Basil Dearden

Basil Dearden was born on Jan 01, 1911 in UK. Basil Dearden's big-screen debut came with Spare a Copper directed by John Paddy Carstairs in 1940. Basil Dearden is known for Walk in the Shadow directed by Basil Dearden, Michael Craig stars as John Paul Harris and Patrick McGoohan as Doctor James 'Jim' Brown. Basil Dearden has got 2 awards and 7 nominations so far. The most recent award Basil Dearden achieved is BAFTA Awards. The upcoming new movie Basil Dearden plays is The Assassination Bureau which will be released on Mar 21, 1969.

A former stage director, Basil Dearden entered films as an assistant to director Basil Dean (he changed his name from Dear to avoid being confused with Dean). Dearden worked his way up the ladder and directed (with Will Hay) his first film in 1941; two years later he directed his first film on his own. He eventually became associated with writer/producer Michael Relph, and together the two made films on themes not often tackled in British films, such as homosexuality and race relations. In the '60s Dearden embarked on a new phase of his career by directing large-scale action pictures, the best of which was Khartoum (1966), which was a critical and financial success. Not long after completing La seconde mort d'Harold Pelham (1970), Dearden was killed in an automobile accident.