Dennis Price
British actor (1915–1973) | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The White Unicorn (1947), A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Suave English light leading man, who became an equally light character actor
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Born in Twyford, Dennis Price began acting at Oxford University, studied acting under Ronald Adam at the Embassy Theatre School and was on stage from 1937. Alcoholism and tax problems from the mid-1960s led to his absence from Britain and his appearance in some third-rate films. Died of cirrhosis of the liver.
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Watch Dennis Price on British television
- Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Tomorrow at 2.50am on Sony Movies Classic
- Tomorrow at 3.50am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Friday at 2.55am on Sony Movies Classic
- Friday at 3.55am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Sunday at 2.55am on Sony Movies Classic
- Sunday at 3.55am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 23rd April at 2.55am on Sony Movies Classic
- 23rd April at 3.55am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- The new disciplinarian CO of a Highland regiment crosses swords with his lax, hard-drinking predecessor.
- Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- Thursday at 8.15am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- Friday at 4am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- Saturday at 3.40pm on London Live
- Sunday at 11.55am on 5Select
- Sunday at 1pm on 5Select
- Monday at 1pm on London Live
- 23rd April at 6.40am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- 23rd April at 1pm on London Live
- 24th April at 4am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- An impecunious heir eliminates eight D’Ascoynes who stand between him and the family fortune.
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- What a Carve Up! (1961)
- Friday at 3pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Friday at 4pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Friday at 4pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Friday at 5pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- A madman fakes his own death in order to murder his relatives.
- What a Carve Up! (1961)
- Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
- Friday at 4.50pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Friday at 5.50pm on Sony Movies Classic
- Friday at 5.50pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Friday at 6.50pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 23rd April at 1.05am on Sony Movies Classic
- 23rd April at 2.05am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- An insurance assessor investigates a fire, finds a murder, marries the victim’s widow and is blackmailed…
- Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
- Ten Little Indians (1965)
- Sunday at 10am on 5Select
- Sunday at 11.10am on 5Select
- Ten people, including two servants, invited to a remote house in the Austrian Alps are murdered one by one.
- Ten Little Indians (1965)
- Dear Murderer (1947)
- Sunday at 1.20pm on London Live
- 22nd April at 1pm on London Live
- Plot and counter-plot among an adulterous triangle.
- Dear Murderer (1947)
- Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
- Sunday at 11.50pm on Talking Pictures TV
- A waitress wins a local beauty contest and becomes a charm school starlet and later a stripteaser.
- Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
- The Naked Truth (1957)
- 20th April at 11am on Film4 HD
- Celebrities band together to kill a blackmailer who threatens to expose unsavoury aspects of their lives.
- The Naked Truth (1957)
- For Better, for Worse (1954)
- 21st April at 1pm on London Live
- Tribulations of a young married couple.
- For Better, for Worse (1954)
- Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
- 22nd April at 3.15pm on Sony Movies Classic
- 22nd April at 4.15pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 22nd April at 4.15pm on Sony Movies Classic
- 22nd April at 5.15pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 25th April at 11.10am on Sony Movies Classic
- 25th April at 12.10pm on Sony Movies Classic
- 25th April at 12.10pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 25th April at 1.10pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- A sailor about to be married receives a paternity accusation.
- Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
Dennis Price News
- ‘The Price of Fame’, Dennis Price biography published
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10th May, 2018
- Author Elaine Parker writes ‘The Price of Fame’, a new biography of British actor, Dennis Price.