Dean O. Torrence - King Of Comedy

Dean Ormsby Torrence was born on March 10, 1940, in Los Angeles, California. Dean showed an aptitude for art even as a young child and took art lesson beginning at the age of five. He loved to draw , he loved the piano and sports, especially football. Dean, unlike his future partner, was a good kid and kept out of trouble. It seems he has always been a collector of all things, great and small.

His boundless imagination really shown through in his fantastic sense of humor. Always a cut up, he loves to clown around. One day the whole world would come to know and appreciate this marvelous sense of humor.

Dean. as a toddler. That twinkle in his eyes was just a forewarning of the humor that would be so much a part of Dean's persona.

Dean as a young man in his 20s, seemed to have his feet more firmly planted on solid ground.

He was truly the "clown prince" of the duo and there never seemed to be an end to that famous sense of humor.

After Jan's accident, Dean carried on and made every possible effort to keep the name of Jan & Dean in the public's eye. He recorded and produced an album which was release on the J & D Record Co. label - Save  For A Rainy Day which is a marvelous album, one everyone will enjoy and apppreciate even more knowing the story behind it's production.

Dean continued to record and produce albums during the years before their return to touring which included the wonderful two record set, Jan & Dean
Anthology Album.  released in
early 1972.

For a period, Dean left the record business and opened Kittyhawk Graphics, a design firm. He designed numerous albums covers and in 1972 he won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover of the Year.

Dean with the Surf City All-Star band in 2002.