The best Bill Dean’s movies

Bill Dean

Bill Dean

03/09/1921- 20/04/2000
We present our ranking of the best Bill Dean’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Bill Dean.
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The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd
6.2/10
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Kes

Kes
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/04/1970
  • Character: Fish and Chip Shop Man
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.

Scum

Scum
7.6/10
An uncompromising and brutal story of life in Borstal, a British juvenile offender institution in the 1970s.

Family Life

Family Life
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1971
  • Character: Mr. Baildon
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life. Family Life is a stark and painful portrait of a hypocritical society.

Night Watch

Night Watch
6.3/10
Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

Priest

Priest
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1994
  • Character: Altar Boy
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/10/1991
  • Character: Foreman of the Jury
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

Gumshoe

Gumshoe
6.4/10
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Hillsborough

Hillsborough
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/09/1996
  • Character: Additional Cast
Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.

Slayground

Slayground
4.9/10
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.

Skallagrigg

Skallagrigg
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.

The Golden Vision

The Golden Vision
8.3/10
The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.

Rising Damp

Rising Damp
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/05/1980
  • Character: Workman
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.

The Big Flame

The Big Flame
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/02/1969
  • Character: Landlord
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.

Speech Day

Speech Day
Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've finished with school and school with them, what comes next for Ronnie, Wally and Rob?

Waiting at the Field Gate

Waiting at the Field Gate
  • Release: 03/04/1975
  • Character: Ted
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?

Roll On Four O'Clock

Roll On Four O'Clock
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/12/1970
  • Character: Arthur Foster
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform to the macho culture and is labeled a homosexual, leading to bullying by both the pupils and some of the teachers.

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/02/1973
  • Character: Bert
Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?

The Rank and File

The Rank and File
6.7/10
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play; a fictionalised account of the Pilkingtons Glass strike in St Helens, 1970.

A Turn for the Worse

A Turn for the Worse
  • Release: 28/04/1981
  • Character: (voice)
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian. Simpson believes the boy has talent and starts to groom him for 'stardom'.

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