Colin Dean

{{Short description|Australian producer and director}}

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Colin Dean (1919-2007) was an Australian producer and director who worked in Australian TV in the 1950s and 1960s.

He worked in the UK in the late 1940s,{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2822391 |title=FILM DIRECTING NOT FUN, SAYS COLIN DEAN |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=24 |issue=6,995 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=8 September 1949 |accessdate=21 February 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18515631 |title=A Film In Ten Minutes |newspaper=The Sunday Herald (Sydney) |issue=185 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 August 1952 |accessdate=21 February 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} and returned to Australia in the 1950s.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134905049 |title=Mayfield Man Aids Royal Tour Filming |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |issue=24,183 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 April 1954 |accessdate=21 February 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}