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Stanley Price
American actor (1892–1955)
For the English novelist and playwright, see Stanley Price (writer).
Stanley Price (December 31, 1892 – July 13, 1955) was an American film supporting actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1922 and 1956. He was a charter member of the Screen Actors Guild.[1]
Career
Price was an actor whose artistic career spanned four different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color. He debuted in the silent movie Your Best Friend (William Nigh, 1922), sharing starring duties with Vera Gordon and Harry Benham.[2] After that, he became a familiar figure, wearing either cowboy rustler outfits or gangster nice suits, particularly in the cliffhanger serials of the 1930s through the early 1950s.
Usually, he served as the assistant or second-in-command for the brains heavy. He usually wore workmanlike duds, did the physical labor, and often had more brawn than morality. Thus, Price went from one chapter to the next trying desperately to kill the hero with fists, knives, guns, b
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Stanley Price obituary: successful writer of Irish-Jewish extraction
Stanley Price
Born: August 12th, 1931
Died: February 28th, 2019
The playwright, novelist and screenwriter Stanley Price, who has died aged 87, was English by birth but always considered himself to be Irish, especially on sporting occasions when green jerseys are worn, and particularly on international rugby days.
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His father was an Irish Jew, but Stanley was born in Stamford Hill in north London. He spent some of the war years with his maternal grandparents in Kenilworth Square, Rathgar, and in their rented villa close to the Joyce Tower in Sandycove. He attended various schools in Dublin, including Wesley College, where he played rugby, the game he loved more than any other.
During his time at Cambridge University, studying history, the anti-establishment Price wrote revues for Footlights and befriended Jonathan Miller, Nick Tomalin and Frederic Raphael.
In 1956, he sailed from England to find work in New York, and landed a job as a reporter on Life magazine, an auspicious break into, fi
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| The 'brains' and 'action' heavies who had meaty roles and lots of dialog ... and the players who were fathers, ranch owners, lawman, mayors, judges, lawyers, storekeepers, newspaper editors, wardens, etc. |
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Cast listing for the December, 1923 opening of "Abie's Irish Rose" at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago ... with Stanley Price as "Abie" ("Abraham Levy"). After exiting "Abie's Irish Rose", Stanley formed his own touring company ... and future wife Frances Severns was his leading lady. In Summer - Fall, 1926, they spent months doing their repertoire of plays at the Post Theater in Battle Creek, Michigan. Their next stop was a lengthy run at the Temple Theater in Hammond, Indiana and the above newspaper ad is from October, 1926. The June 8, 1927 Variety noted that "Stanley Price closed his stock at the Temple, Hammond, after thirty weeks." |
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