Basil Dearden का जन्म 1 जनवरी 1911 को हुआ था।Basil Dearden एक निदेशक और निर्माता थे, जो Sapphire (1959), Dead of Night (1945) और Frieda (1947) के लिए मशहूर थे।उनकी मृत्यु 23 मार्च 1971 को हुई थी।
By a strange quirk of fate, Basil Dearden was actually killed in a car crash on the same stretch of road where, a couple of years before, he had filmed the death of the character, Harold Pelham, in a car crash in the film The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) starring Roger Moore. This was stated by Roger Moore himself in the 'Special Features' section of the DVD 'The Man Who Haunted Himself'.
