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name: "Dennis Abey"
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fi1m_id: "dennis-abey"
imdb_id: "nm0008688"
tmdb_id: 1234082
wikidata_id: "Q113427520"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T10:42:57.743472+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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# Dennis Abey

## Identity

Dennis Abey

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dennis-abey
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dennis-abey
- **IMDb ID:** nm0008688
- **TMDB ID:** 1234082
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113427520
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113427520, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008688/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234082

Director. Born in Pancras, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113427520, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008688/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234082

## Biography

Dennis Abey is a British director and producer. Born in March 1932 in Pancras, London, he began his career in additional crew roles, including on the animated film *Yellow Submarine* (1968). He directed the feature *Never Too Young to Rock* (1975) and the short *Gollocks! There's Plenty of Room in New Zealand* (1974).

Abey directed episodes of several British television series in the late 1970s and 1980s, including three episodes of *The Professionals* (1979–1982), one episode of *Minder* (1980), episodes of *Dick Turpin* and *Smuggler*, one episode of *Robin of Sherwood* (1986), and work on *C.A.T.S. Eyes* and *Gentlemen and Players*. In the 1990s he directed episodes of *She-Wolf of London* and *Chris Cross*, and contributed live-action segments to *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends* (1992–1995).

He also directed and produced live-action segments for the television adaptations *The Wind in the Willows* (1995) and *The Willows in Winter* (1996).

*Sources: imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Minder* (1979), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/minder.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends* (2006), Producer, Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mr. Tod* (1998), Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs. Tittlemouse* (1996), Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse* (1996), Director
- *The Wind in the Willows* (1995), Director, Producer
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland* (1994), Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Mr. Jeremy Fisher* (1994), Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester* (1993), Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding* (1993), Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck* (1993), Director
- *Chris Cross* (1993), series, Director
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends* (1992), series, Director, Creator
- *The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny* (1992), Director
- *Robin of Sherwood* (1984), series, Director
- *Smuggler* (1981), series, Director
- *Minder* (1979), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/minder.md)
- *Dick Turpin* (1979), series, Director
- *The Professionals* (1977), series, Director
- *Never Too Young to Rock* (1976), Director, Writer

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