25 Facts About Dennis Price

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Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the classic Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets and for his portrayal of the omnicompetent valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P G Wodehouse's stories.

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Dennis Price had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price CMG DSO and his wife Dorothy, nee Verey, daughter of Sir Henry Verey, Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature.

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Dennis Price attended Copthorne Prep School, Radley College and Worcester College, Oxford.

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Dennis Price studied acting at the Embassy Theatre School of Acting.

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Dennis Price served in the Royal Artillery from March 1940 to June 1942 during the Second World War, but returned to acting after being invalided out, appearing with Noel Coward in This Happy Breed and Present Laughter and later as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit, which he later named in Who's Who in the Theatre as one of his two favourite parts along with the title role in Andre Obey's Noah.

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Dennis Price impressed Gainsborough Pictures, which put him under contract.

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Dennis Price was given a support role in A Place of One's Own starring James Mason.

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8.

Dennis Price was a villain again in Gainsborough's The Magic Bow with Granger and Kent.

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Dennis Price made two for Bernard Knowles, supporting Margaret Lockwood in The White Unicorn and a comedy, Easy Money.

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Dennis Price followed this with a thriller, Snowbound, and a crime melodrama Good-Time Girl.

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Dennis Price was given the title role in The Bad Lord Byron ; this was a huge flop at the box-office, and helped kill off the Gainsborough melodrama.

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Dennis Price was in a wartime drama, The Lost People.

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Dennis Price's role was to represent the eyes of listeners as the Piddingtons performed their telepathy act in the Piccadilly studios, and in the Tower of London.

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Dennis Price was ensuring that no cheating was going on and overseeing the telepathy tests as a witness.

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Dennis Price was loaned to Associated British Picture Corporation to make two films: the musical The Dancing Years, a sizeable hit; and the thriller Murder Without Crime, was less successful.

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Back at Rank, Dennis Price was a villain in The Adventurers, and was borrowed by 20th Century Fox for I'll Never Forget You.

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Dennis Price played the lead in Lady Godiva Rides Again, and after a cameo in The Magic Box he had top billing in a comedy, Song of Paris.

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Dennis Price supported in The Tall Headlines and had the lead in some B-films: Noose for a Lady, Murder at 3am and Time Is My Enemy.

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In 1967, Dennis Price was declared bankrupt; he attributed his financial distress to "extravagant living and most inadequate gambling".

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Dennis Price then moved to the tax haven island of Sark, which coincided with an escalation in his alcoholism.

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Towards the end of his life, Dennis Price appeared in a series of horror movies including The Haunted House of Horror, Twins of Evil, Horror Hospital and Theatre of Blood, as well as five films directed by Jesus Franco.

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Dennis Price died of heart failure, complicated by a hip fracture, in Guernsey in 1973, at the age of 58.

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Dennis Price was cremated at the Foulon Vale Crematorium, Guernsey, and his ashes were buried outside St Peter's Anglican Church on Sark, next to the traditional burial plot of the seigneurs of Sark.

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Dennis Price could be penniless and still manage to look as if he owned the bank.

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Dennis Price was married to the actress Joan Schofield from 1939 to 1950.

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