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Dennis Price
Born: 23rd Jun 1915 Twyford, England - Died 6th Oct 1973
Dept: Acting
Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the classic Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and for his portrayal of the omnicompetent valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's stories.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 123
Film: 105 (85%)
Television: 18 (15%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, History, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family, Documentary
Filmography
Character:
Bakewell(archive footage)
1974
Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe — son of Dracula — falls in love with beautiful mortal Am ... view
Character:
Van Helsing
Original title: Quartier de femmes
1973
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and l ... view
Character:
L'avocat Linsday
Original title: La maldición de Frankenstein
1973
After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his monster and the radical technology that created him: the scientist's daught ... view
Character:
Dr. Frankenstein
1973
Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ... view
Character:
Mr. Pollack
1973
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition. ... view
Character:
Hector Snipe
1972
Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio. ... view
Character:
Dracula, actor
1972
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other. ... view
Character:
Eugene Soul
1972
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down ... view
Character:
King of Hearts
1972
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta. ... view
Character:
The Englishman
Original title: Dracula contra Frankenstein
1972
Dracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face of the earth. Armed with a hammer and a wooden stake, ... view
Character:
Dr. Frankenstein
1972
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi a ... view
Character:
Mr. Gort
Sep 1972 (first aired)
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK ... view
Character:
Brandon (2 ep.)
1972
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders ... view
Character:
Laurence Bakewell
Feb 1972 (first aired)
Clochemerle is a 1972 British–West German television comedy based on Gabriel Chevallier's 1934 novel of the same name, with Ray Galton and Alan Simp ... view
Character:
Alexis Luvelat (1 ep.)
1971
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, G ... view
Character:
Dietrich
Sep 1971 (first aired)
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sir Brian (1 ep.)
1971
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. ... view
Character:
Dr. Alwin Seward
1970
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into p ... view
Character:
Fairburn
1970
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc. ... view
Character:
The Graverobber
1970
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker. ... view
Character:
Benson
1969
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought ... view
Character:
Winthrop
Nov 1969 (first aired)
Comedy legend Bernard Cribbins had been a key presence in British film and television comedy for over a decade before he landed his own headlining tel ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Paroxismus
1969
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman ... view
Character:
Percival Kapp
1969
Teenagers in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before they're all finished off. ... view
Character:
Inspector Bill Bradley
1967
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbi ... view
Character:
The Duke of Barset
Jul 1967 (first aired)
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1967
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Le ... view
Character:
Bathroom Salesman
Feb 1967 (first aired)
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width is a British sitcom first broadcast in 1967 as a single play in the Armchair Theatre anthology series, later be ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1965 (first aired)
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a ... view
Character:
David Bliss (1 ep.)
1965
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one. ... view
Character:
Dr. Edward Armstrong
May 1965 (first aired)
Based on P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, The World of Wooster, broadcast on BBC One from 1965 to 1967, followed the farcical adventures of young uppe ... view
Character:
Jeeves (20 ep.)
1965
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of th ... view
Character:
Mathias
1965
In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he fi ... view
Character:
Maj. Lomas
1964
A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward o ... view
Character:
Quinn Taggart
Sep 1964 (first aired)
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although ada ... view
Character:
The Director (1 ep.)
1964
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognit ... view
Character:
Tommy Morris
1964
In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in marriage. He soon finds hi ... view
Character:
Cornwallis Marley
Apr 1964 (first aired)
Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry ... view
Character:
Lord Grabley (1 ep.)
Mar 1964 (first aired)
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC progr ... view
Character:
Sir John Appleby (1 ep.)
1964
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least ... view
Character:
Dr. John Hughes
1964
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation. ... view
Character:
Harris Tumbrill
Oct 1963 (first aired)
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. ... view
Character:
de Varville (1 ep.)
Sep 1963 (first aired)
Harry's Girls is an American situation comedy which appeared on NBC from September 13, 1963, to January 3, 1964. The series stars Larry Blyden portray ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1963
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials. ... view
Character:
Cmdr. Millbank
1963
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and som ... view
Character:
Dr. Blacker
1963
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier ... view
Character:
Charles Poole
Mar 1963 (first aired)
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmis ... view
Character:
Major Falcon (1 ep.)
1963
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as p ... view
Character:
Educated Ernest (uncredited)
1963
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yan ... view
Character:
Ronald Fortescue
1963
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable as ... view
Character:
Grantley
1962
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in or ... view
Character:
Prawn
1962
A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered. ... view
Character:
Dr. Julian Crossley
1962
A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to s ... view
Character:
Sir Charles Bryant
1962
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversio ... view
Character:
Withers
1962
An amusing guide on how to act in public, based on Emily Post's Book of Manners. ... view
Character:
1962
New inmate Rainbow has just been imprisoned for a year for his part in a fight over his girlfriend Wendy. After being assigned to kitchen duty, he bec ... view
Character:
Smooth Tongue
1961
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather ecce ... view
Character:
Guy Broughton
1961
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in- ... view
Character:
Lt. Cmdr Hardcastle
1961
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of suc ... view
Character:
Calloway
1961
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends ... view
Character:
Leonard Watson
1961
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Never ... view
Character:
Jim Smith
1961
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional proble ... view
Character:
Flagg
1961
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely barones ... view
Character:
Raphael
Jan 1961 (first aired)
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, ... view
Character:
Jason (1 ep.)
1960
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best yet – they have burned down the school! As the girls stand trial, police breathe a sigh of reli ... view
Character:
Gore Blackwood
1960
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in l ... view
Character:
Adrian
1960
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit ... view
Character:
Maj. Charles 'Charlie' Scott, M.C. (Battalion Executive Officer)
1960
A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to ... view
Character:
Edward
1960
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate re ... view
Character:
Robert Ross
1960
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen ... view
Character:
Dunstan
1959
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However ... view
Character:
Sep 1959 (first aired)
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September ... view
Character:
Commander Adrian Falconer (1 ep.)
1959
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from th ... view
Character:
Bertram Tracepurcel
1959
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysteriou ... view
Character:
Capt. Rupert Callender
1957
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rat ... view
Character:
Nigel Dennis
1957
British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week. ... view
Character:
Rupert Cadell
1957
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam. ... view
Character:
Tracey Moreton
Character:
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
1956
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties. ... view
Character:
Digby Hatchard
Jul 1956 (first aired)
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produ ... view
Character:
A.B. Murdoch (1 ep.)
Lord Henry Wotton (1 ep.)
1956
An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find th ... view
Character:
Robert Blackton
1956
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with H ... view
Character:
Harold Armytage
1956
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be office ... view
Character:
Brig. Bertram Tracepurcel
1955
Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna. ... view
Character:
Maj. Frank
1955
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his sec ... view
Character:
Mateo Vázquez
1955
Showing an idea of how an evening's viewing might appear on the forthcoming I.T.A. channel in London. ... view
Character:
Noel Coward
1954
A scientist on the run with a valuable formula is murdered, and the only witnesses are eight blind people. ... view
Character:
Allan
1954
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz. ... view
Character:
Martin Radley
1954
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5. ... view
Character:
Mr. Debenham
1953
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. W ... view
Character:
Leonard Pirry
1953
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer. ... view
Character:
Inspector Peter Lawton
1953
A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed. ... view
Character:
Simon Gale
1952
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl. ... view
Character:
Maurice Fletcher
Original title: Song of Paris
1952
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle. ... view
Character:
Matthew Ibbetson
1952
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i ... view
Character:
Harold
1951
Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefath ... view
Character:
Tom Pettigrew
1951
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. Th ... view
Character:
Simon Abbott
Original title: The Adventurers
1951
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where hi ... view
Character:
Clive Hunter
1950
A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife. ... view
Character:
Matthew, Stephen's Landlord
1950
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, la ... view
Character:
Rudi Kleiber
1949
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior t ... view
Character:
Ridley
1949
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping. ... view
Character:
Lord Byron (archive footage) (uncredited)
1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be bu ... view
Character:
Louis Mazzini / His Father
1949
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character. ... view
Character:
Lord Byron
Nov 1948 (first aired)
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, prese ... view
Character:
Julian Brimmer (1 ep.)
1948
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with ... view
Character:
Michael 'Red' Farrell
1948
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps. ... view
Character:
Neil Blair
1948
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the co ... view
Character:
Joe Henty
1947
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden. ... view
Character:
Richard Glover
1947
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam. ... view
Character:
Joshua Crowther
1947
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the ... view
Character:
Christopher Hatton
1947
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend ... view
Character:
Sq. Ldr. Hardwick
1947
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime. ... view
Character:
Richard Fenton
1947
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune. ... view
Character:
Greyhound John
1946
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert pl ... view
Character:
Paul de la Rochelle
1946
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable n ... view
Character:
Sir Francis Castleton
1945
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes. ... view
Character:
Dick Warren
1945
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, ... view
Character:
Dr. Robert Selbie
1944
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury. ... view
Character:
Peter Gibbs
Character:
Kenneth Raglan
1938
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to ass ... view
Character:
Trebonius/Volumnius
1926
Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed. ... view
Character:
Nana's Jockey