Bill Dean [216245] Gender: Male Popularity: 1.5991 Birthplace: Everton, Liverpool, England, UK Birthday: 1921-09-03 Deathday: 2000-04-20 Age: 78 years Movies: 32 Links: Homepage, IMDB Biography: 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. Brookside: Friday the 11998-11-14 Hillsborough1996-09-11 Priest1995-03-24 Skallagrigg1994-03-09 Let Him Have It1991-10-04 Slayground1983-12-01 Going Gently1981-06-05 A Turn for the Worse1981-04-28 The Mirror Crack'd1980-09-19 Rising Damp1980-05-03 Scum1979-09-12 Night People1978-12-06 Freedom of the Dig1978-10-23 Beasts: What Big Eyes1976-11-13 Bag of Yeast1976-02-22 Break In1975-11-06 In Sickness and in Heal1975-05-21 Waiting at the Field Ga1975-04-03 Flame1975-02-13 Match of the Day1974-03-18 Night Watch1973-11-08 Speech Day1973-03-26 The Best Pair of Legs i1973-02-01 Bank Holiday1972-03-02 Gumshoe1971-12-01 Family Life1971-11-17 After a Lifetime1971-07-18 The Rank and File1971-05-20 Roll On Four O'Clock1970-12-19 Kes1970-04-03 The Big Flame1969-02-19 The Golden Vision1968-04-17