The Dean Case Explained

Genre:	Drama
Director:	Kevin Dobson
Producer:	Alan Burke
Starring:	Lewis Fitz-Gerald Ivar Kants
Company:	ABC
Country:	Australia
Language:	English

The Dean Case is a 1983 Australian TV movie which was the first of four telemovies called Verdict produced by the ABC dramatising real cases (the others being The Amorous Dentist, Who Killed Hannah Jane?, and The Schippan Mystery).^[1]

Plot

The movie tells the story of George Dean, a Sydney-based ferry boat master, arrested in 1895 for attempting to poison his wife.^[2]

Cast

• Lewis Fitz-Gerald as George Dean
• Paul Mason as Paddy Crick
• Lola Brooks as Mrs. Seymour
• Celia De Burgh as Mary Dean
• Ivar Kants

External links

• The Dean Case at Austlit
• The Dean Case at IMDb
• The Dean Case at Screen Australia

Notes and References

1. News: Waters and Thornton to star in new Crawford mini-series. 19 September 1982. The Canberra Times. 12 February 2017. 17,158. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 57. 13. National Library of Australia.
2. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p41