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Bill Dean


Bill Dean

Birthday:

09/03/1921

Place of birth:

Everton, Liverpool, England, UK:

Biography:

Bill Dean was a British actor who was born in Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire. He was born Patrick Anthony Connolly, but took his stage name in honour of Everton football legend William 'Dixie' Dean. After a atring of jobs, it was his work as a Lancashire club comedian that saw him spotted by Ken Loach who gave him his breakthrough role in his TV play The Golden Vision. Famous for his flat but penetrating Scouse tones, Dean went on to star as miserable pensioner Harry Cross in the long running Channel 4 soap Brookside from its inception in 1983 to 1990. He briefly returned to the series in 1999 for three episodes, when his character re-appeared in Brookside Close suffering from Alzheimer's disease and wrongly believing that he still lived there. The same character was the inspiration behind the 1980s group 'Jegsy Dodd and the sons of Harry Cross' who hailed from the Wirral and Dean himself appeared in the video of the Liverpudlian band The Farm's Groovy Train as Cross, who was a former train driver. He did of a heart attack aged 78 in 2000.


Credits

Brookside: Friday the 13th (1998)
as Harold Cross
Hillsborough (1996)
as Additional Cast
Priest (1995)
as Altar Boy
Skallagrigg (1994)
as Old Man
Let Him Have It (1991)
as Foreman of the Jury
Slayground (1983)
as Compere
Going Gently (1981)
as Painter
A Turn for the Worse (1981)
as (voice)
Rising Damp (1980)
as Workman
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
as Man in Village Hall (uncredited)
Scum (1979)
as Mr Duke
Night People (1978)
as Ted
Freedom of the Dig (1978)
as Sid
Beasts: What Big Eyes (1976)
as Duggie Jeb
Bag of Yeast (1976)
as Teddy
Break In (1975)
as Dixie
In Sickness and in Health (1975)
as Mr Jackson
Waiting at the Field Gate (1975)
as Ted
Flame (1975)
as Club Owner (uncredited)
Match of the Day (1974)
as Father
Night Watch (1973)
as Inspector Walker
Speech Day (1973)
as George
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business (1973)
as Bert
Bank Holiday (1972)
as Father
Gumshoe (1971)
as Tommy Wright
Family Life (1971)
as Mr. Baildon
The Rank and File (1971)
as Billy
Roll On Four O'Clock (1970)
as Arthur Foster
Kes (1970)
as Fish and Chip Shop Man
The Big Flame (1969)
as Landlord
The Golden Vision (1968)
as John Coyne