Bill Dean
Actor/Actriz
30
Movies
19
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
Minder
Police Sgt.
Heartbeat
Harry Capshaw
The Sweeney
Charlie Norton
Playhouse
Painter
The Wednesday Play
John Coyne
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Uncle Sid
BBC2 Play of the Week
Ted
Justice
Charlie Keen
Public Eye
Mr. Steadman
The Expert
Leslie Stevens
New Scotland Yard
Bernard Hobbs
Man in a Suitcase
Budgie
Dutchie Holland
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Beasts
Duggie Jebb
Pennies from Heaven
Alf
Priest
Altar Boy
El espejo roto
Man in Village Hall (uncredited)
Slayground
Compere
Kes
Fish and Chip Shop Man
Scum
Mr Duke
The Wackers
Charlie
Night Watch
Inspector Walker
Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
Jack
The Gathering Seed
Billy Eccles
Let Him Have It
Foreman of the Jury
Freedom of the Dig
Sid
Hillsborough
Additional Cast
Night People
Ted
Gumshoe
Tommy Wright