Dennis Price
Biography
Date of Birth 23 June 1915, Twyford, Berkshire, England, UK Date of Death 6 October 1973, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK (heart failure resulting from hip fracture) Birth Name Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price Mini Biography This urbane, sourly handsome British actor was born to privilege and most of his roles would follow suit. Born Dennistoun John Franklyn Rose-Price in Berkshire in 1915, Dennis Price, the son of a brigadier-general, was expected to abide by his family wishes and make a career for himself in the army or the church. Instead he became an actor. First on stage (Oxford University Dramatic Society) where he debuted with John Gielgud in "Richard II" in 1937, he was further promoted in the theatre by Noel Coward. After brief extra work, Price nabbed early star-making film roles in several overbaked Gainsborough mysteries/melodramas, including A Place of One's Own (1945), The Magic Bow (1946) and Caravan (1946), but the one showcase role that could have led him to Hollywood, that of the title poet in The Bad Lord Byron (1949), proved a critical and commercial failure. He took this particularly hard and fell into severe depression. His fatally charming serial murderer in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), in which he does in nearly all of Alec Guinness' eight characters (Guiness plays eight different roles), is arguably his crowning achievement on celluloid. By the 50s Price was suffering from severe alcoholism, which adversely affected his personal and professional career. A marriage to bit actress Joan Schofield in 1939 ended eleven years later, due to his substance abuse problem and homosexuality, the latter being a source of great internal anguish for him. They had two daughters. Price became less reliable and fell steeply in his ranking, moving into less quality "B" pictures. Eccentric comedy renewed his fading star a bit in such delightful farces as Private's Progress (1956), I'm All Right Jack (1959) and School for Scoundrels (1960). TV also saved him for a time in the 60s with the successful series "The World of Wooster" (1965), in which he played the disdainful butler, Jeeves.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Louis Mazzini
Twins of Evil
Dietrich
Horror of Frankenstein
The Graverobber
Vampyros lesbos
Dr. Alwin Seward (as Denis Price)
A High Wind in Jamaica
Mathias
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Doctor Frankenstein (as Denis Price)
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein
Tunes of Glory
Major Charles Scott, M.C.
Victim
Calloway
A Canterbury Tale
Peter Gibbs
The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil
Dietrich (archive footage)
Dean Teaster's Ghost Town
Town Folk
The Rebel
Jim Smith
Michael Jackson: Bad
Conductor
Son of Dracula
Van Helsing
Lovers of Devil's Island
L'avocat Linsday
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Doctor Frankenstein (as Denis Price)
Horror Hospital
Mr. Pollack
Theatre of Blood
Hector Snipe
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
King of Hearts
That's Your Funeral
Eugene Soul
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Mr. Gort
Pulp
Mysterious Englishman
Horror on Snape Island
Bakewell
Twins of Evil
Dietrich
Vampyros lesbos
Dr. Alwin Seward (as Denis Price)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Fairburn
Horror of Frankenstein
The Graverobber
Some Will, Some Won't
Benson
The Magic Christian
Winthrop
Venus In Furs
Percival Kapp
The Haunted House of Horror
Inspector Bill Bradley
Those Fantastic Flying Fools
The Duke of Barset
Just Like a Woman
Bathroom Salesman
Curse of the Voodoo
Maj. Lomas
Ten Little Indians
Dr. Armstrong
A High Wind in Jamaica
Mathias
The Earth Dies Screaming
Quinn Taggart
The Comedy Man
Tommy Morris
Cornwallis Marley
Murder Most Foul
Theatrical Agent Harris Tumbrill
The V.I.P.s
Cmdr. Millbank
Doctor in Distress
Dr. Blacker
The Wrong Arm of the Law
Educated Ernest
The Cracksman
Grantley
Kill or Cure
Dr. Julian Crossley
Play it Cool!
Sir Charles Bryant
Diebe haben Vorfahrt
Withers
The Pot Carriers
Smooth Tongue
What A Carve Up!
Guy Broughton
Watch It, Sailor!
Lt. Cmdr Hardcastle
Victim
Calloway
Double Bunk
Watson
No Love for Johnnie
Flagg
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Gore Blackwood
The Millionairess
Dr. Adrian Bland
Tunes of Glory
Major Charles Scott, M.C.
Robert Ross
School for Scoundrels
Dunstan
Don't Panic Chaps
Captain von Krisling
I'm All Right, Jack
Bertram Tracepurcel (as Denis Price in opening credits)
Breakout
Capt. Rupert Callender
Your Past is Showing
Nigel Dennis
Rock Around the World
Steelmen's Pianist (as The Steelmen)
She Played with Fire
Tracey Moreton
Private’s Progress
Brig. Bertram Tracepurcel
Oh... Rosalinda!!
Maj. Frank
That Lady
Mateo Vasquez
Eight Witnesses
Allan
Time Is My Enemy
Martin Radley
Cocktails in the Kitchen
Mr. Debenham
The Intruder
Leonard Pirry
The Frightened Bride
Maurice Fletcher
Bachelor in Paris
Matthew Ibbetson
I'll Never Forget You
Tom Pettigrew
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Simon Abott
Fortune in Diamonds
Clive Hunter
The Dancing Years
Rudi Kleber
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Louis Mazzini
Good-Time Girl
Michael 'Red' Farrell
Snowbound
Blair
Easy Money
Joe (segment The Night Club Story)
Jassy
Christopher Hatton
Holiday Camp
Sq. Ldr. Hardwick
Dear Murderer
Richard Fenton
Hungry Hill
Greyhound John
Paul de la Rochelle
Caravan
Francis Castleton
A Place of One's Own
Dr. Selbie
A Canterbury Tale
Peter Gibbs
Kenneth Raglan
Nana
Le jockey de 'Nana' (as Price)
