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Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.
Basil Dearden. Director: Sapphire. 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).
Apr 17, 2021 · Basil Dearden’s 1961 film, Victim, represents a significant moment in British film history. Released into a world where sex between adult men in the United Kingdom was a heavily policed crime, it is the first British film to use the word homosexual inside a narrative that thoughtfully and unsensationally captures the cumulative daily stresses ...
Basil Dearden. Director: Sapphire. 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).
As film studies grope beyond auteurism towards a greater recognition of the importance of collaboration and versatility, the contribution of Basil Dearden and his collaborator Michael Relph might be more generously acknowledged.
Jan 25, 2011 · Delving into such sensitive issues as racism, homophobia, and middle-class malaise, these films by Dearden form a portrait of London as a city on simmer, a culture primed for revolution. Like many of his era, Dearden, born Basil Dear, entered cinema through the stage door.
Dearden dabbled in TV, directing the pilot episode of The Persuaders, and his career was still healthy when he died in a car crash in 1971. Dearden is seen by critics as a workmanlike director who so typified the norms of 50s cinema that he is hardly worthy of discussion.
