Dean’s other ’90s movie credits include The Babe, Rudy, The Client, Eye for an Eye and Chain Reaction. He also guested on such popular TV shows as ER, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue and Murder, She Wrote and recurred in more than a dozen episodes of Early Edition, starring Kyle Chandler, and multiple episodes of Frasier, including Seasons 1 and 2 when it won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. He played Frank Collins, a Seattle cop and poker buddy of Frasier’s father Martin Crane (John Mahoney).
Dean continued to work steadily as the millennium turned, appearing on such top shows as The West Wing, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case, Six Feet Under, Numbers, Without a Trace, Family Law and a different character on NYPD Blue. He later recurred on Chicago Fire as James Whoritsky, Commanding Chief Fire Marshal of the CFD’s Office of Fire Investigations, and appeared in a 2016 episode of Chicago P.D., which would be his final screen credit.
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