Isabel Dean

Isabel Dean
Born	Isabel Hodgkinson (1918-05-29)29 May 1918 Aldridge, Staffordshire, England
Died	27 July 1997(1997-07-27) (aged 79) Wandsworth, London, England
Years active	1949-1990
Spouse(s)	William Fairchild (1953-1970s; divorced); 2 children

Isabel Dean (born Isabel Hodgkinson, 29 May 1918 – 27 July 1997) was an English stage, film and television actress.^[1][2]

Born in Aldridge, Staffordshire, Dean studied painting at Birmingham Art School. In 1937, she joined the Cheltenham Repertory Company as a scenic artist.^[3] She was soon involved in acting with some small parts.

She appeared on stage in London in Agatha Christie's Peril at End House in 1940.^[4] Her stage appearances included The Deep Blue Sea, Breaking the Code and John Osborne's The Hotel in Amsterdam, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.^[3] In 1949 she appeared in The Foolish Gentlewoman at the Duchess Theatre in London.^[5]

By 1953, she was also appearing on British television in The Quatermass Experiment and over her career appeared in television series such as I, Claudius (1976) and Inspector Morse (1990).^[6][7] She appeared with Paul Scofield in an ITV Saturday Night Theatre production of The Hotel in Amsterdam broadcast on 14 March 1971.^[8][9]

Among her film appearances are roles in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) and the film version of Inadmissible Evidence (1968).^[3]

In 1953, Dean married writer William Fairchild; the couple had two daughters, Caroline and Angela. The marriage was later dissolved.^[3]

• Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair (1957)
• Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery (1965)
• Home at seven (1966) by RC Sherriff
• The Reluctant Peer by William Douglas-Home broadcast on BBC (1967)
• Have His Carcase (1981)
• The Bird Table (1982)
• A Photograph of Lindsey Mowatt (1986) by Ellen Dryden
• Summer Attachment (1986) by Michael Sharp

• Isabel Dean at IMDb
• Theatre performances in Theatre Archive University of Bristol