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.

Latest Dennis Price Pictures

Main title from The Master of Bankdam (1947) (5). Dennis Price — The Master of Bankdam (1947) opening credits (5)

Main title from Ten Little Indians (1965) (15) featuring Dennis Price — Ten Little Indians (1965) opening credits (15) | Dennis Price

The Price of Fame – The Biography of Dennis Price by Elaine Parker and Gareth Owen. Hardback edition published by Fonthill Media in May, 2018 — The Price of Fame – The Biography of Dennis Price by Elaine Parker

Dennis Price – a Tribute. The Life and Death of Dennis Price, by Elliot J Huntley. Pickard Communication, 2008 — Dennis Price – a Tribute. The Life and Death. Elliot J Huntley, 2008

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Born

Dennis Price was born in Twyford, Berkshire on 23^rd June, 1915.
Died

Dennis Price died of cirrhosis of the liver in Guernsey, Channel Islands on 6^th October, 1973, aged 58.

Watch Dennis Price on British television

- What a Carve Up! (1961)
- Today at 3.10am on GREAT! movies classic
- Today at 4.10am on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- Sunday at 10.30am on GREAT! movies classic
- Sunday at 11.30am on GREAT! movies classic
- Sunday at 11.30am on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- Sunday at 12.30pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- A madman fakes his own death in order to murder his relatives.
- Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
  
  [as She Played With Fire]
- Tomorrow at 1.05am on GREAT! movies classic
- Tomorrow at 2.05am on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- An insurance assessor investigates a fire, finds a murder, marries the victim’s widow and is blackmailed…
- Port Afrique (1956)
- Tomorrow at 11.05am on GREAT! movies classic
- Tomorrow at 12.05pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- Tomorrow at 12.05pm on GREAT! movies classic
- Tomorrow at 1.05pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- In Morocco, an American pilot solves the shooting of his wife.
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- Tuesday at 6.30am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- Tuesday at 4pm on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- An impecunious heir eliminates eight D’Ascoynes who stand between him and the family fortune.
- Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
- 2^nd July at 5.25pm on GREAT! movies classic
- 2^nd July at 6.25pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- 2^nd July at 6.25pm on GREAT! movies classic
- 2^nd July at 7.25pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- 4^th July at 12pm on GREAT! movies classic
- 4^th July at 1pm on GREAT! movies classic
- 4^th July at 1pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- 4^th July at 2pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- A sailor about to be married receives a paternity accusation.
- Tunes of Glory (1960)
- 3^rd July at 2.55am on GREAT! movies classic
- 3^rd July at 3.55am on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
- The new disciplinarian CO of a Highland regiment crosses swords with his lax, hard-drinking predecessor.
- Jassy (1947)
- 5^th July at 3pm on Talking Pictures TV
- A gypsy servant girl falls in love with her master but is accused of murder.

Dennis Price News

- ‘The Price of Fame’, Dennis Price biography published
- 10^th May, 2018
- Author Elaine Parker writes ‘The Price of Fame’, a new biography of British actor, Dennis Price.