DENNISTOUN FRANKLYN JOHN ROSE PRICE, conocido artísticamente como DENNIS PRICE (23 de junio de 1915 – 6 de octubre de 1973) fue un actor inglés, mejor recordado por su papel de Louis Mazzini en la película Ocho sentencias de muerte y por su interpretación del omnisciente ayuda de cámara Jeeves en las adaptaciones televisivas de la década de 1960 de las historias de P. G. Wodehouse.

Biografía y carrera

Hijo de un general, Dennis Price estaba inicialmente destinado a una carrera eclesiástica pero, después de asistir a la Universidad de Oxford, se matriculó en la Embassy School of Acting para estudiar actuación.

A partir de 1938 se embarcó en una carrera cinematográfica larga e inicialmente exitosa. Dado de baja del ejército británico en 1942 por discapacidad, volvió a actuar en el teatro donde fue descubierto por el director de cine Michael Powell, quien le confió su primer papel protagónico, el de un joven soldado, en A Canterbury Tale (1944).

Si bien logró un éxito inmediato, en los años siguientes Price tuvo pocas oportunidades de aparecer en películas de la misma importancia, a pesar de participar en un número infinito de películas producidas en Inglaterra e interpretar principalmente personajes sarcásticos y refinados. ​ Entre sus papeles más memorables se encuentran el del pariente pobre asesino en la clásica comedia Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) y los personajes secundarios pero muy importantes que interpretó en Victim (1961) y The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963).

Aunque había logrado un éxito considerable en la pantalla chica, interpretando el papel del mayordomo Jeeves, nacido de la pluma de P.G. Wodehouse, en una popular serie de televisión producida por la BBC, Price vio decaer su carrera cinematográfica durante la década de 1960 y terminar con su participación en una serie de películas de terror de bajo costo, algunas dirigidas por Jesús Franco.

Muerte

Murió de cirrosis hepática en 1973 a la edad de 58 años. Está enterrado en la isla de Sark.

DENNISTOUN FRANKLYN JOHN ROSE PRICE, known artistically as DENNIS PRICE (June 23, 1915 – October 6, 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the film Eight Death Sentences and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in the 1960s television adaptations of PG Wodehouse’s stories.

Biography and career

The son of a general, Dennis Price was initially destined for an ecclesiastical career but, after attending Oxford University, he enrolled at the Embassy School of Acting to study acting.

From 1938 he embarked on a long and initially successful film career. Discharged from the British Army in 1942 due to disability, he returned to acting in the theater where he was discovered by film director Michael Powell, who entrusted him with his first leading role, that of a young soldier, in A Canterbury Tale (1944).

Although he achieved immediate success, in the following years Price had few opportunities to appear in films of the same importance, despite participating in an infinite number of films produced in England and playing mainly sarcastic and refined characters. Among his most memorable roles are that of the murderous poor relative in the classic comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and the supporting but very important characters he played in Victim (1961) and The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963).

Although he had achieved considerable success on the small screen, playing the role of the butler Jeeves, born from the pen of P.G. Wodehouse, in a popular television series produced by the BBC, Price saw his film career decline during the 1960s and end his participation in a series of low-cost horror films, some directed by Jesús Franco.

Death

He died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1973 at the age of 58. He is buried on the island of Sark.

Filmography

1938 No Parking

1944 A Canterbury Tale

1945 A Place of One’s Own

1945 The Echo Murders

1946 Caravan

1946 The Magic Bow

1947 Hungry Hill

1947 Dear Murderer

1947 Holiday Camp

1947 Jassy

1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949 Helter Skelter

1949 The Lost People

1950 The Dancing Years

1950 Murder Without Crime

1951 The Adventurers

1951 I’ll Never Forget You

1951 Lady Godiva Rides Again

1951 The Magic Box

1952 Song of Paris

1952 The Tall Headlines

1953 Noose for a Lady

1953 Murder at 3 a.m.

1953 The Intruder

1954 Time Is My Enemy

1954 For Better, for Worse

1959 Don’t Panic Chaps!

1960 School for Scoundrels

1960 Oscar Wilde

1960 Tunes of Glory

1960 Piccadilly Third Stop

1960 The Millionairess

1960 The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s

1961 Five Golden Hours

1961 No Love for Johnnie

1961 The Rebel

1961 Double Bunk

1961 Watch it, Sailor!

1961 Victim

1961 What a Carve Up!

1962 Play It Cool

1962 The Pot Carriers

1962 Go to Blazes

1962 Behave Yourself

1962 Kill or Cure

1962 The Amorous Prawn

1963 The Cool Mikado

1963 The Wrong Arm of the Law

1963 The V.I.P.s

1963 The Cracksman

1963 Doctor in Distress

1963 Tamahine

1964 Murder Most Foul

1964 A Jolly Bad Fellow

1964 The Horror of It All

1964 The Comedy Man

1964 The Earth Dies Screaming

1965 Curse of the Voodoo

1965 A High Wind in Jamaica

1965 Ten Little Indians

1967 Just like a Woman

1967 Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon

1969 The Haunted House of Horror

1969 Venus in Furs

1969 The Magic Christian

1970 Some Will, Some Won’t

1970 The Horror of Frankenstein

1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

1971 Vampyros Lesbos

1971 Twins of Evil

1972 Tower of Evil

1972 The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

1972 Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein

1972 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

1972 That’s Your Funeral

1972 Go for a Take

1973 Theater of Blood

1973 Horror Hospital

1973 The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

1974 Quartier de femmes

1974 Son of Dracula.

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Price