Bill Dean

Bill Dean

September 3, 1921 · 105 years old

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 Loa…

Known For

5 titles
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Scum

Scum

1979 · 1h 38m · Movie

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.

7.6
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Priest

Priest

1995 · 1h 38m · Movie

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

7.1
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Family Life

Family Life

1971 · 1h 48m · Movie

A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.

7.5
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Gumshoe

Gumshoe

1971 · 1h 26m · Movie

Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts fallin...

6.4
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Rising Damp

Rising Damp

1980 · 1h 38m · Movie

Landlord Rigsby scams lodgers Cooper and Philip into sharing a room. His favorite tenant, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip, annoying Rigsby. When new lodger Seymour arrives, Miss Jones falls for him, leaving Rigsby's love for her un...

6.3