Ivor Dean
Overview
- Occupation Uncredited Actor
- Birthdate August 10, 1917
- Birthplace England, UK
- Died August 10, 1974 (Truro Cornwall, England, UK)
- Character German Officer II
Biography
For many TV-viewers the Shakespeare actor Ivor Dean is most well known for his role as the chief inspector of Scotland Yard, Claud Eustace Teal, in the British TV-series the Saint, also starring Roger Moore. He played the role of the always candy sucking inspector between the years of 1963 and 1969. During the sixties he also made guest appearances in The Avengers and The Persuaders!.
Dean had his biggest success with the role of Long John Silver in the miniseries Die Schatzinsel (1966), a German adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson novel the Treasure Island. Few actors have managed to play that role as accurate as Dean. The series won the “Perla-TV-price” at the Film and TV festival in Mailand 1967. After the success of Die Schatzinsel Ivor Dean started to work on a manuscript for a sequel. But when he died in 1974 the project was no more than a manuscript. Only in 1985 the TV-series Return to Treasure Island, based on Dean’s manuscript, premiered. But the atmosphere from the original TV-series could not be achieved by the absence Ivor Dean.
Selected films
- Doctor at Large - 1957
- Operation Conspiracy - 1957
- Avengers, The (TV-series) - 1961
- Scarlet Pimpernel, The (TV-series) - 1961
- Girl on a Roof - 1961
- Saint, The (TV-series) - 1962
- Gaolbreak (TV-series) - 1962
- Front Page Story (TV-series) - 1965
- Schatzinsel, Die (TV-series) - 1966
- Theatre of Death - 1966
- Magnum for Schneider, A (TV) - 1967
- No, That's Me Over Here (TV-series) - 1967
- Sourcerers, The - 1967
- Stranger in the House - 1967
- Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (TV) - 1967
- Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher - 1968
- Salt and Pepper - 1968
- Oblong Box, The - 1969
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- Crooks and Coronets - 1969
- File of the Golden Goose, The - 1969
- Randal and Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV-series) - 1969
- Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, The - 1971
- Jason King (TV-series) - 1971
- Both Ends Meet (TV-series) - 1972
- Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde - 1972
- Up the Workers (TV-series) - 1973
- Return to Treasure Island (TV-series) - 1985
Curiosa
- His spouse was actress Patricia Hamilton