Overview
- Longtime partner Maggie Neff said he died at 4 p.m. after his sisters said their goodbyes and shared a personal tribute to his final moments.
- Director Andrew Davis, who cast Dean in seven films, remembered him as "the essence of what Chicago talent represented."
- Dean built a five-decade career playing cops and blue-collar Chicagoans, accumulating nearly 100 film, TV and stage credits.
- Notable screen roles included The Breakfast Club, The Fugitive, The Dark Knight and recurring turns on Frasier and Chicago Fire.
- Born in Chicago in 1938, he worked on local stages including Goodman and Steppenwolf and earned a 1996 Joseph Jefferson Award nomination; his final screen credit was a 2016 episode of Chicago P.D.