Dennis Price
105 movies · 19 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 23, 1915
- Died
- Oct 6, 1973 (age 58)
- Place of birth
- Twyford, England
- Also known as
- Denis Price · Деннис Прайс · Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price
Biography
Sophisticated and suave, British actor Dennis Price ( born Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price) (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) brought a touch of class to every character he portrayed. Price appeared first on the British stage before landing his first role in film in "A Canterbury Tale" as the protective police officer, Sergeant Peter Gibbs.
Next up was a defining role as the calm, cool, and devilish murderer Louis Mazzini in the black comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets," opposite Alec Guinness. Turning to the truly dark side, Price later took on the role of Major Charles Scott in the psychological thriller "Tunes of Glory," which revolved around dastardly post-World War II happenings in a Scottish Highland regimental barracks.
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Price later returned to comedy, playing a priggish wealthy American, Mr. Vernon, in "The Amorous Mr. Prawn." Price became known to television audiences playing Jeeves, the quintessential butler, opposite Ian Carmichael in the British series "The World of Wooster" which was adapted from the famous novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse.
With a string of appearances in "B" horror movies like "Horror Hospital" and "Twins of Evil," Price became somewhat of a cult figure in later years, but he punctuated his career with a 1972 appearance in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," opposite the top British stars of the day.
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Dennis Price: movies and TV shows
Acting (124)
- 2015 Inside the Tower
as Bakewell(archive footage)
- 1974 Son of Dracula
as Van Helsing
- 1973 Lovers of Devil's Island
as L'avocat Linsday
- 1973 The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
as Dr. Frankenstein
- 1973 Horror Hospital
as Mr. Pollack
- 1973 Theatre of Blood
as Hector Snipe
- 1972 Go for a Take
as Dracula, actor
- 1972 That's Your Funeral
as Eugene Soul
- 1972 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
as King of Hearts
- 1972 Pulp
as The Englishman
- 1972 Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
as Dr. Frankenstein
- 1972 The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
as Mr. Gort
- 1972
- 1972 Tower of Evil
as Laurence Bakewell
- 1972
- 1971 Twins of Evil
as Dietrich
- 1971
- 1971 Vampyros Lesbos
as Dr. Alwin Seward
- 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
as Fairburn
- 1970 The Horror of Frankenstein
as The Graverobber
- 1970 Some Will, Some Won't
as Benson
- 1969 The Magic Christian
as Winthrop
- 1969
- 1969 Venus in Furs
as Percival Kapp
- 1969 The Haunted House of Horror
as Inspector Bill Bradley
- 1969
- 1967 Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as The Duke of Barset
- 1967 Just Like a Woman
as Bathroom Salesman
- 1967
- 1967
- 1965
- 1965 Ten Little Indians
as Dr. Edward Armstrong
- 1965
- 1965 Curse of the Voodoo
as Maj. Lomas
- 1965 A High Wind in Jamaica
as Mathias
- 1964 The Earth Dies Screaming
as Quinn Taggart
- 1964
- 1964 The Comedy Man
as Tommy Morris
- 1964 The Horror of It All
as Cornwallis Marley
- 1964
- 1964
- 1964 A Jolly Bad Fellow
as Dr. John Hughes
- 1964 Murder Most Foul
as Harris Tumbrill
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963 The V.I.P.s
as Cmdr. Millbank
- 1963 Tamahine
as Charles Poole
- 1963 Doctor in Distress
as Dr. Blacker
- 1963
- 1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law
as Educated Ernest (uncredited)
- 1963 The Cool Mikado
as Ronald Fortescue
- 1963 The Cracksman
as Grantley
- 1962 The Amorous Prawn
as Prawn
- 1962 Kill or Cure
as Dr. Julian Crossley
- 1962 Play It Cool
as Sir Charles Bryant
- 1962 Go to Blazes
as Withers
- 1962
- 1962 The Pot Carriers
as Smooth Tongue
- 1961 What a Carve Up!
as Guy Broughton
- 1961 Watch It, Sailor!
as Lt. Cmdr Hardcastle
- 1961 Victim
as Calloway
- 1961 Double Bunk
as Leonard Watson
- 1961 The Rebel
as Jim Smith
- 1961 No Love for Johnnie
as Flagg
- 1961 Five Golden Hours
as Raphael
- 1961
- 1960 The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
as Gore Blackwood
- 1960 The Millionairess
as Adrian
- 1960 Tunes of Glory
as Maj. Charles 'Charlie' Scott, M.C. (Battalion Executive Officer)
- 1960 Piccadilly Third Stop
as Edward
- 1960 Oscar Wilde
as Robert Ross
- 1960 School for Scoundrels
as Dunstan
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 I'm All Right Jack
as Bertram Tracepurcel
- 1959 Danger Within
as Capt. Rupert Callender
- 1957 The Naked Truth
as Nigel Dennis
- 1957 Rope
as Rupert Cadell
- 1957 Fortune Is a Woman
as Tracey Moreton
- 1956 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
- 1956 A Touch of the Sun
as Digby Hatchard
- 1956
- 1956 Port Afrique
as Robert Blackton
- 1956 Charley Moon
as Harold Armytage
- 1956 Private's Progress
as Brig. Bertram Tracepurcel
- 1955 Oh... Rosalinda!!
as Maj. Frank
- 1955 That Lady
as Mateo Vázquez
- 1955 Fcb TV Show No.1
as Noel Coward
- 1954 Eight Witnesses
as Allan
- 1954 Time Is My Enemy
as Martin Radley
- 1954 For Better, for Worse
as Mr. Debenham
- 1953 The Intruder
as Leonard Pirry
- 1953 Murder at 3am
as Inspector Peter Lawton
- 1953 Noose for a Lady
as Simon Gale
- 1952 Tall Headlines
as Maurice Fletcher
- 1952 Song of Paris
as Matthew Ibbetson
- 1952 The Magic Box
as Harold
- 1951 The House in the Square
as Tom Pettigrew
- 1951 Lady Godiva Rides Again
as Simon Abbott
- 1951 Fortune in Diamonds
as Clive Hunter
- 1950 Murder Without Crime
as Matthew, Stephen's Landlord
- 1950 The Dancing Years
as Rudi Kleiber
- 1949 The Lost People
as Ridley
- 1949 Helter Skelter
as Lord Byron (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets
as Louis Mazzini / His Father
- 1949 The Bad Lord Byron
as Lord Byron
- 1948
- 1948 Good-Time Girl
as Michael 'Red' Farrell
- 1948 Snowbound
as Neil Blair
- 1948 Easy Money
as Joe Henty
- 1947 The White Unicorn
as Richard Glover
- 1947 The Master of Bankdam
as Joshua Crowther
- 1947 Jassy
as Christopher Hatton
- 1947 Holiday Camp
as Sq. Ldr. Hardwick
- 1947 Dear Murderer
as Richard Fenton
- 1947 Hungry Hill
as Greyhound John
- 1946 The Magic Bow
as Paul de la Rochelle
- 1946 Caravan
as Sir Francis Castleton
- 1945 The Echo Murders
as Dick Warren
- 1945 A Place of One's Own
as Dr. Robert Selbie
- 1944 A Canterbury Tale
as Peter Gibbs
- 1939 Rope
as Kenneth Raglan
- 1938 Julius Caesar
as Trebonius/Volumnius
- 1926 Nana
as Nana's Jockey