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

Mini Biography

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

- 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
- 23^rd April at 2.55am on Sony Movies Classic
- 23^rd 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.
- 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
- 23^rd April at 6.40am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- 23^rd April at 1pm on London Live
- 24^th April at 4am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- An impecunious heir eliminates eight D’Ascoynes who stand between him and the family fortune.
- 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.
- Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
  
  [as She Played With Fire]
- 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
- 23^rd April at 1.05am on Sony Movies Classic
- 23^rd 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…
- 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.
- Dear Murderer (1947)
- Sunday at 1.20pm on London Live
- 22^nd April at 1pm on London Live
- Plot and counter-plot among an adulterous triangle.
- 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.
- The Naked Truth (1957)
- 20^th April at 11am on Film4 HD
- Celebrities band together to kill a blackmailer who threatens to expose unsavoury aspects of their lives.
- For Better, for Worse (1954)
- 21^st April at 1pm on London Live
- Tribulations of a young married couple.
- Watch It, Sailor! (1961)
- 22^nd April at 3.15pm on Sony Movies Classic
- 22^nd April at 4.15pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 22^nd April at 4.15pm on Sony Movies Classic
- 22^nd April at 5.15pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 25^th April at 11.10am on Sony Movies Classic
- 25^th April at 12.10pm on Sony Movies Classic
- 25^th April at 12.10pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 25^th April at 1.10pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- A sailor about to be married receives a paternity accusation.

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.