Michael Dean (broadcaster)

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Michael Dean
Born(1933-05-15)15 May 1933
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Michael Dean (15 May 1933 – 5 October 2015) was a New Zealand-born television broadcaster from the 1960s to the 1980s, best known for his work for the BBC in the United Kingdom, but who worked in his native New Zealand and in Australia.

Biography

Born in

New Zealand Broadcasting Service.[1]

After a period in Sydney, Dean moved to the United Kingdom and was a presenter for eight years on the

BBC2 discussion programme Late Night Line-Up. During the early 1970s he made television documentaries on such figures as George Formby, Noël Coward and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.[1]

Following the cancellation of Late Night Line-Up in 1972, Dean returned to New Zealand where he hosted the eponymous television chat show Dean on Sunday, before once again moving to Australia where he worked for the

In 1968, Dean married Christine Collins, an actress, and they had two children, Rachel and Emily. In 2019, Emily published her memoir, Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog, detailing her childhood experiences including her strained relationship with her father following his leaving the family and the deaths of her sister, father and mother.[2]

In later life, Dean was afflicted by dementia. He died on 5 October 2015.[1] His ex-wife Christine had died months earlier in February 2015; while his daughter Rachel had died of cancer in 2012.[2] He was survived by his daughter Emily and two grandchildren through his daughter Rachel.[1]

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