Dean Reed

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-09-22 (48 years old)

Deathday

1986-06-13

Place of Birth

Denver, Colorado, USA

Dean Reed

Biography

Dean Reed was born September 22, 1938, in Denver Colorado. He went to Hollywood where he signed a record contract with Capitol Records in 1958, but his third single, "Our Summer Romance" was so popular in South America he went to tour there. More popular than Elvis Presley, he stayed to enjoy his incredible fame in Chile, Peru, Argentina. He made albums, starred in movies and had his own television show in Buenos Aires. He was known as Mr. Simpatia because he worked free in barrios and prisons and protested US policy, nuclear bomb tests etc. His politics moved to the left but he never joined the Communist party. He was deported from Argentina...

Acting

1974

Kit & Co.

as Kit Bellow

2007

The Red Elvis

as Himself (archive footage)

1970

Adiós, Sabata

as Ballantine

2022

Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy

as Self (Archive Footage)

1969

Death Knocks Twice

as Bob Martin

1968

God Made Them... I Kill Them

as Slim Corbett / Compton

1970

1971

Die Vergnügungsspalte

as (archive footage)

1975

Blood Brothers

as Harmonika

1968

The Nephews of Zorro

as Raphael / Zorro

1971

The Corsairs

as Alan Drake

1965

Guadalajara en verano

as Robert Douglas

1977

The Singer

as El Cantor

1972

2016

Red Gringo

as Himself (archive footage)

1984

Windy Story

as Jim Gains

1965

Production

1975

1981

1977

The Singer

as Writer

1977

The Singer

as Director

1981

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