Isabel Dean

Isabel Dean was an English actress of stage, film and television. Born in Aldridge, Staffordshire, she studied painting at Birmingham Art School and in 1937 took a job as a scenic artist with the Cheltenham Repertory Company, soon moving into small acting parts. London theater followed, among it Peril at End House, an Agatha Christie play, in 1940. Her later stage work included Breaking the Code, The Deep Blue Sea and John Osborne's The Hotel in Amsterdam, staged at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Her film credits included Inadmissible Evidence (1968) and The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953). On television she appeared in The Quatermass Experiment and went on to series including I, Claudius (1976) and Inspector Morse (1990), and she played opposite Paul Scofield in a 1971 ITV Saturday Night Theatre version of The Hotel in Amsterdam. She also worked in radio.