DEAN GOODINE - Prop Master
Team Deakins
James Ellis Deakins
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 201 Dean Goodine - Prop Master
In this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with prop master Dean Goodine (THE ORDER, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES, UNFORGIVEN). From a small lumber town in Canada, Dean almost committed his life to the oil fields of Alberta before turning to film. Throughout the episode, Dean helps us understand what a prop master does for a movie, and, drawing on his extensive experience with firearms safety, we also discuss how he keeps sets safe. While learning what Dean's responsibilities are as a prop master, he shares how he collaborates with the costume department, and we also discuss how he adapts to working with different directors. In addition to film, Dean has also worked in television, and he reflects on dealing with the phenomenon of fandom while working on STARGATE. We also discuss the state of the Canadian film industry, historical and present-day, and Dean reveals how his own research and prep process has stayed the same. We worked with Dean on JESSE JAMES, and we had a great time catching up with him.
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If you enjoyed listening to Dean, you can learn more about him and his career in his book "They Don't Pay Me To Say No: My Life in Film and Television Props"
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations |
| 0:10.1 | between Roger and James Deacons and a guest. We never know where the conversation will take us, |
| 0:16.3 | so listen in and see where it goes. |
| 0:24.0 | Today we're speaking to a property master. |
| 0:28.1 | His credits include the assassination of Jesse James, |
| 0:31.8 | Falling Skies, Peter Pan and Wendy, and the Order. |
| 0:34.6 | We're pleased to welcome Dean Goodine. |
| 0:37.0 | Dean, thank you for doing this. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, welcome. Nice to see you. Oh my goodness, I'm so thrilled. |
| 0:41.3 | We'd like to start with our normal question, which is, how did you get to where you are today? |
| 0:47.3 | As a kid, were you rearranging the things on the table all the time? |
| 0:51.3 | Or was this something that you found later? What's your story? |
| 0:55.4 | Well, when I was four years old, I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan with my mom, and I had just |
| 1:00.6 | gotten a new puppy, and I thought the Beatles were called the Beagles, and my puppy was a beagle, |
| 1:06.1 | so I named a Meringo Star. So I kind of thought at that moment that maybe I would have a future and entertainment. |
| 1:13.3 | Actually, the truth is I lived in a small lumber town in northern New Brunswick, Canada, which is on |
| 1:18.4 | the border of me for your American listeners. And anything to do with entertainment or Hollywood was |
| 1:25.2 | in that little square box that transmitted light into our home |
| 1:30.4 | or on the transistor radio with the super stations at New York in my ear for music. So I developed a strong |
| 1:38.6 | love of music. Even though I don't play music, my mom was a singer and my sister was a charting singer. |
| 1:46.4 | And so I've been around music all my life, but I was more the guy that would organize the |
| 1:50.9 | microphones or find things to put together. Or if there was a talent show in high school, |
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