Dean Spanley

Dean Spanley
UK quad format cinema poster
Directed byToa Fraser
Screenplay byAlan Sharp
Based onMy Talks with Dean Spanley
by Lord Dunsany
Produced byMatthew Metcalfe
Alan Harris
StarringJeremy Northam
Peter O'Toole
Sam Neill
Bryan Brown
Judy Parfitt
Dudley Sutton
CinematographyLeon Narbey
Edited byChris Plummer
Music byDon McGlashan
Production
companies
NZ Film Commission
Atlantic Film Group
General Film Corporation
Lipsync Productions
Distributed byIcon Entertainment International
Release dates
  • 6 September 2008 (2008-09-06) (Toronto)
  • 12 December 2008 (2008-12-12) (UK)
  • 26 February 2009 (2009-02-26) (NZ)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom, New Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15 million
Box office$1,455,824 (international only)[1]

Dean Spanley is a 2008 British comedy drama film, with fantastic elements, directed by Fijian New Zealander Toa Fraser. Set in Edwardian England, the film is based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of Irish author Lord Dunsany's 1936 novella My Talks with Dean Spanley. It stars Sam Neill as the Dean, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole as Fisk Junior and Fisk Senior respectively and Bryan Brown as Wrather.

  1. ^ "Dean Spanley (2008)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 11 May 2023.