Tall, brawny, curly-haired character actor Rick Dean made his film debut in 1982 in the low-budget horror movie "Island of Blood." A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he trained with Wynn Handmann of the American Place Theatre in New York and with Roy London and Peggy Feury of The Lost Studio in Los Angeles. Scruffy and scraggly, with a long, narrow, craggy face, an askew, leering smile, a powerful, muscular physique, a long mane of unruly dark hair, a rough gravel voice and a very intense and intimidating screen presence, Dean was often cast as bums, psychos and dangerous criminals. Starting in the late 80s and throughout the 90s Dean appeared in a slew of straight-to-video features produced by legendary exploitation filmmaker Roger Corman; said movies include "'Nam Angels," "The Unborn," "Quake," "Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight," both "Carnosaur" sequels, "Saturday Night Special," "Cheyenne Warrior," and "Black Scorpion." Dean often co-starred alongside Maria Ford in these movies. Dean's best-ever role was as the mysterious philosophical derelict Sam Silver in "Naked Obsession." Moreover, he was quite memorable as a deranged blind man who terrorizes a strip club at gunpoint in "Stripteaser" and as a vicious tattooed racist in the horror anthology "Tales from the Hood." Besides acting in over 40 films, Dean also acted in and directed stage plays and was an accomplished self-taught artist who specialized in pastel paintings. He was married to artist/actress Cinda Jackson and was the father of actress Eliza Lauren Dean. Rick Dean died suddenly at the tragically young age of 53 on February 3rd, 2006.
Besides acting, Rick Dean also was a theatre director and accomplished self-taught artist who specialized in pastel paintings.Trained with Wynn Handmann of the American Place Theatre in New York and with both Roy London and Peggy Feury of The Lost Studio in Los Angeles.Graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.Father of actress Eliza Lauren Dean.
After a car crash, the teenager Michelle has the face completely destroyed and amnesia. In the hospital, she is called Bride of Mummy due to the mask she needs to wear along her therapy. However, her doctor makes a perfect facial reconstruction using family pictures and Michelle is discharged from the hospital and sent to a home that lodges young offenders since she was considered a troublemaker before the car crash. The police release her possessions of the day of the accident - a journal and an Ouija board - and Michelle moves with the host Bisson to his house. On the same day she leaves the hospital, the janitor is murdered. Michelle shares a room with the outcast delinquent Dalia and she has dreadful nightmares during the night and is confused. She befriends Larry, who shares another room in the house with Dutch, and tries to help her. When Dalia is found dead in the room with cuts in the wrists...