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name: "Adrian Bean"
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fi1m_id: "adrian-bean"
tmdb_id: 1790595
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:33:24.106265+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Adrian Bean

## Identity

Adrian Bean

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adrian-bean
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adrian-bean
- **TMDB ID:** 1790595
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1790595

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1790595

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Casualty*](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) (68)

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## Biography

Adrian Bean is a television director, writer, radio producer and former theatre director.

He began his career in repertory theatre and the West End, later becoming Artistic Director of London's Inner City Theatre Company. He joined the BBC as a Radio Drama Producer before training as a television director.

Bean has directed episodes of many British continuing dramas, including *Casualty* (2000–2002), *Hollyoaks* (from 2013), *Emmerdale*, *Coronation Street*, *EastEnders*, *Doctors*, *Heartbeat* and *The Coroner* (2015). He has also written episodes of *Doctors* and *Heartbeat*. In 2003 he received the Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama for the *Afternoon Play* episode *Turkish Delight*.

*Sources: imdb.com, hollyoaks.fandom.com, emmerdale.fandom.com, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Casualty* (1986), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Coroner* (2015), series, Director
- *The Afternoon Play* (2003), series, Director
- *The Royal* (2003), series, Director
- *Murder in Mind* (2001), series, Director
- *Hollyoaks* (1995), series, Director
- *Heartbeat* (1992), series, Director, Writer
- *Fair City* (1989), series, Director
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Grange Hill* (1978), series, Director

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