Dean Reed

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 in 1966 and ended up in Rome, where he made "spaghetti westerns" for several years. He made his first concert tour of the Soviet Union in 1966 and became a mega star there and in Eastern Europe. He continually got into trouble with US State Department for protesting Vietnam War and attending International Peace Conferences. He moved to East Germany (GDR) in 1973, made numerous albums, starred in several films, and wrote and directed his own. His last visit to the States in late 1985 encouraged him to dream of making a career for himself back home, especially if he could return with his current project in hand, a movie about the war between AIM and the FBI at Wounded Knee, 1973. A GDR/Soviet Union co-production, the film had taken years to get off the ground. Just days before shooting was due to start in the Crimea, Dean Reed's body was found in the lake near his home outside of East Berlin. He had been missing for several days. Many close to him in the GDR suspected suicide; his family and friends in America believed he was murdered.

Known For: Acting

Born: Denver, Colorado, USA, 1938-09-22

Died: 1986-06-13

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Guadalajara en verano	Robert Douglas	50
2	1965	Ritmo nuevo, vieja ola	Él mismo	0
3	1966	My First Girlfriend	Deen	60
4	1967	Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive	Buccaroo	60
5	1968	God Made Them... I Kill Them	Slim Corbett / Compton	53
6	1968	The Nephews of Zorro	Raphael / Zorro	57
7	1969	Secret Diary of Fanny	Michel	20
8	1969	Death Knocks Twice	Bob Martin	43
9	1970	La banda de los tres crisantemos	Owen Olinger	60
10	1970	Twenty Paces to Death	Mestizo	0
11	1970	Adiós, Sabata	Ballantine	63
12	1971	Die Vergnügungsspalte	(archive footage)	50
13	1971	The Corsairs	Alan Drake	52
14	1971	The Lineage of Cain		0
15	1972	Sotto a chi tocca!	Straccio	0
16	1972	Dean Reed - Sänger des anderen Amerika	Self	0
17	1973	Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts	Taugenichts	50
18	1973	Karate, Fist and Beans	Sam	42
19	1974	Kit & Co.	Kit Bellow	50
20	1975	Blood Brothers	Harmonika	55
21	1976	Soviel Lieder, soviel Worte	Dean	30
22	1977	The Singer	El Cantor	58
23	1981	Sing, Cowboy, Sing	Joe	52
24	1984	Windy Story	Jim Gains	30
25	1985	American Rebel: The Dean Reed Story	Himself	0
26	2007	The Red Elvis	Himself (archive footage)	73
27	2016	Red Gringo	Himself (archive footage)	55
28	2022	Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy	Self (Archive Footage)	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self	18
2	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self - Musician	18

Dean Reed

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