Dennis Price (1915 - 1973) دينيس برايس

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A British actor born in Twyford Berkshire, England, United Kingdom on June 23, 1915 and died in Guernsey, Channel Island, United Kingdom on October 6, 1973 of heart failure. He married actress Joan Schofield (1939-1950), and they had two daughters before their divorce. His best...Read more works are Ten Little Indians (1965), Call Me Genius (1961), and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). He was born to an upper-class family as his father was a major general in the army, and his family expected him to make his way to a position in the army or the church, but he chose to become an actor. He was a very handsome and well-mannered British actor. He joined Copthorne School, Radley College, and Worcester College in Oxford. He became a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). He studied theater at Embassy Theater School and appeared for the first time on the stage of Oxford University in 1937. He appeared at the Theater Royal in London in the same year. He participated in television work until the outbreak of World War II, where he was enlisted in the Royal Artillery, and he was wounded in 1942 to be released from the army. He presented his first movie, A Canterbury Tale (1944), and it was a successful movie. He won the admiration of the Gainsborough Company. He played mystery films and melodramas, namely villainy roles. This includes Place of One's Own (1945) and The Magic Bow (1946). He had an affair with the star Margaret Lockwood, which continued during several films he presented together, such as Jassy (1947), and Hungry Hill (1947). His movie The Bad Lord Byron (1949) failed critically and commercially, affected his career, and shocked him that made he drank heavily after this failure, but his role in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) saved his cinematic career. In the fifties, he suffered from alcoholism, which affected his personal and professional life, and his marriage to actress Joan Schofield ended due to his addiction. He played gambling, and his artistic arrangement fell, so he moved to work in films of the lower quality category B. He tried to commit suicide in 1954 by gas, but he was rescued, and the producers sympathized with him, so he presented the movie That Lady (1955) with Olivia de Havilland. He presented some theatrical works and participated in successful works on the radio, such as Private's Progress (1956), and I'm All Right Jack (1959). During the sixties, he presented the successful series The World of Wooster (1965), but in 1967, he declared his production company bankrupt, and his need for money led him to appear in many disqualified films with the notorious writer and director Jesus Franco, films produced in Spain. In his late days, he worked in horror films, and he died in 1973 at the age of 58 from heart failure, as a result of a fracture in the upper leg, and it was said due to cirrhosis Liver from his drinking. which was a sad ending for one of the most promising British actors and movie stars.

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  • A British actor born in Twyford Berkshire, England, United Kingdom on June 23, 1915 and died in Guernsey, Channel Island, United Kingdom on October 6, 1973 of heart failure. He...Read more married actress Joan Schofield (1939-1950), and they had two daughters before their divorce. His best works are Ten Little Indians (1965), Call Me Genius (1961), and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). He was born to an upper-class family as his father was a major general in the army, and his family expected him to make his way to a position in the army or the church, but he chose to become an actor. He was a very handsome and well-mannered British actor. He joined Copthorne School, Radley College, and Worcester College in Oxford. He became a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). He studied theater at Embassy Theater School and appeared for the first time on the stage of Oxford University in 1937. He appeared at the Theater Royal in London in the same year. He participated in television work until the outbreak of World War II, where he was enlisted in the Royal Artillery, and he was wounded in 1942 to be released from the army. He presented his first movie, A Canterbury Tale (1944), and it was a successful movie. He won the admiration of the Gainsborough Company. He played mystery films and melodramas, namely villainy roles. This includes Place of One's Own (1945) and The Magic Bow (1946). He had an affair with the star Margaret Lockwood, which continued during several films he presented together, such as Jassy (1947), and Hungry Hill (1947). His movie The Bad Lord Byron (1949) failed critically and commercially, affected his career, and shocked him that made he drank heavily after this failure, but his role in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) saved his cinematic career. In the fifties, he suffered from alcoholism, which affected his personal and professional life, and his marriage to actress Joan Schofield ended due to his addiction. He played gambling, and his artistic arrangement fell, so he moved to work in films of the lower quality category B. He tried to commit suicide in 1954 by gas, but he was rescued, and the producers sympathized with him, so he presented the movie That Lady (1955) with Olivia de Havilland. He presented some theatrical works and participated in successful works on the radio, such as Private's Progress (1956), and I'm All Right Jack (1959). During the sixties, he presented the successful series The World of Wooster (1965), but in 1967, he declared his production company bankrupt, and his need for money led him to appear in many disqualified films with the notorious writer and director Jesus Franco, films produced in Spain. In his late days, he worked in horror films, and he died in 1973 at the age of 58 from heart failure, as a result of a fracture in the upper leg, and it was said due to cirrhosis Liver from his drinking. which was a sad ending for one of the most promising British actors and movie stars.

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  • Nationality:
  • UK
  • Birth Name:
  • Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price
  • Birth Country:
  • UK
  • Death Country:
  • UK

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