Dennis Price Filmography

That's Your Funeral

Actors: David Battley, Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley, John Ronane

Synopsis: Bill Fraser and Raymond Huntley star in the raucous British farce That's Your Funeral. Fraser and Huntley play Bullstrode and Holroyd, rival undertakers. The animosity between the two is amplified when drug traffickers attempt to use coffins and hearses to smuggle their wares. David Battley and John Ronane Read More

Devil's Island Lovers

Synopsis: Exploitation master Jess Franco directs Devil's Island Lovers, a film set in a South American prison. The story concerns a pair of innocents who are sent to serve time in the horrific prison and are confronted with some of the most barbaric behavior imaginable. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Horror Hospital

Actors: Vanessa Shaw, Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Dennis Price

Synopsis: This gory British horror satire features a hammy Michael Gough as Doctor Storm, the demented overseer of a bizarre health resort advertising "Hairy Holidays" for teenage hipsters -- on whom he secretly performs diabolical mind experiments, turning them into mindless automatons directed by a Read More

Theater of Blood

Actors: Brigid Eric Bates, Stanley Bates, Jack Maguire, Bunny Reed, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after Read More

Pulp

Actors: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini

Synopsis: A year after Get Carter (1971), director Mike Hodges and star Michael Caine reunited for this comic crime thriller. Caine stars as Mickey King, a writer of cheap paperback detective novels, living in Rome and cranking one noir book after another. King is approached by Ben Dinuccio (Lionel Stander) Read More

Tower of Evil

Synopsis: This gory low-budget British outing involves a team of archaeologists landing on fog-shrouded Snape Island -- recently the site of a hideous double murder -- in search of the tomb of a Phoenician chief and subsequently falling victim to an unseen maniac. Accompanying the shore party is a private Read More

Go for a Take

Double Take

Synopsis: Expert Brtish farceurs Reg Varney and Norman Rossington carry the weight of Double Take on their bony shoulders. Our heroes are a pair of waiters, who enter into a financial agreement with a gang of crooks. When the boys can't pay off, they're dead men walking. So they stop walking and start Read More

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

Actors: Margo Lloyd, Jenny Tomasin, Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Paul Bertram, Dennis Price, Avice Landone

Synopsis: The popular Australian comic strip The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie was first brought to the screen in this raunchy 1972 romp. Barry Crocker plays the title character, a carefree Aussie cowboy with an inordinate fondness for beer and "Sheilas". Touring England as a stand-up comic, Barry runs Read More

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Actors: Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Peter Sellers

Synopsis: A star-studded cast highlights this musical adaptation of the classic fantasy tales of Lewis Carroll. One day young Alice (Fiona Fullerton) takes a nasty spill down the rabbit-hole and finds herself in the bizarre kingdom of Wonderland, where she encounters a number of strange and enchanted Read More

Twins of Evil

Actors: Peter Cushing, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Kathleen Byron, Dennis Price

Synopsis: This entry in Hammer Films' long-running vampire series of the '60s and '70s is one of the most evocative and original. The story features voluptuous twin Playboy centerfolds Madeleine and Mary Collinson as sisters who, without parents, are sent to stay with their oppressive uncle (Peter Cushing Read More

Dracula Contra Frankenstein

Actors: Howard Vernon, Dennis Price, Brit Nichols, Anne Libert

Synopsis: In this comedic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco, Jonathan Seward (Alberto Dalbes) tracks the evil vampire Count Dracula (Howard Vernon) to his castle and kills him with a stake through the heart. The nightmare has hardly begun, however, as the mad Dr. Frankenstein (Dennis Price) Read More

The Horror of Frankenstein

Actors: Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Graham James, Veronica Carlson, Bernard Archard

Synopsis: Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) is the son of the Count who plans his father's demise. He inherits the castle and the comely housekeeper (Kate O'Mara) who doubles as his mistress. Soon Victor is busy murdering people to build his monster (David Prowse). His victims include his neighbor, his Read More

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

Actors: Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Arthur Lowe, Vanessa Howard

Synopsis: Like Socrates of ancient Athens, Michael Rimmer (Peter Cook) of modern England believes the key to success is to ask the right questions. Lots of questions. So he gets a job with an advertising agency that conducts polls, rises swiftly through the ranks, and eventually runs the agency. Then he Read More

Some Will, Some Won't

Synopsis: In this farce, four people go to extremes to inherit the giant fortune of a wealthy practical joker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Vampyros Lesbos

Actors: Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller

Synopsis: Director Jesus Franco's surrealistic reworking of Bram Stoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" has acquired a substantial cult following due to its hallucinatory erotic imagery and a sexy performance by Soledad Miranda as vampiric Princess Nadine Korody. Ewa Stroemberg stars as Lucy Westinghouse Read More

Horror House

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Richard O'Sullivan, Veronica Doran, Julian Barnes

Synopsis: The most horrifying part of this British spooker is seeing former clean-cut teen idol Frankie Avalon cast as Chris, a London hooligan who with his druggie friends decides to spend the night in a supposedly haunted house and hold a seance. The seance is a bust, so the buddies decide to do a little Read More

Avengers: Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Dennis Price, Clifford Evans, Judy Parfitt

Synopsis: This exotically titled Avengers episode is a working of the 1962 "Cathy Gale" installment "The Big Thinker." The title character is a highly advanced computer that is "murdered" by a shotgun blast. The perpetrator of this outrage would seem to be the creator of the computer, but Steed thinks Read More

Venus in Furs

Actors: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Klaus Kinski, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Not to be confused with Massimo Dallamano's contemporaneous treatment of the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch classic, this unrelated (but quite entertaining) thriller from cult director Jesus Franco was originally known as Black Angel. James Darren stars as Jimmy Logan, an American jazz musician in Read More

The Magic Christian

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Christopher Lee, Caroline Blakiston, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Read More

Just Like a Woman

Actors: Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer on her husband's weekly television show suddenly decides to begin a new life without him. She then quits her job and moves into the house of another man, a good friend, not a lover. When she learns that her husband is looking for a replacement singer, she does her best to Read More

Those Fantastic Flying Fools

Actors: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying Fools (originally titled Blast-Off, and also released as Those Fantastic Flying Fools) is based very loosely on a Jules Verne novel. A 19th century British newspaper offers a Read More

The World of Wooster [TV Series]

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Eleanor Summerfield, Fabia Drake, Derek Nimmo

Synopsis: The BBC comedy series World of Wooster was based on P.G. Wodehouse's whimsical short stories about upper-class twit Bertie Wooster (Ian Carmichael) and his ever-resourceful (and infinitely more intelligent) butler Jeeves (Dennis Price). Most of the stories dealt with Bertie's desultory romances Read More

Ten Little Indians

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians is the title of the American edition, the hit play, and most of the movies), this 1965 version moves the action from a remote island to an isolated ski resort and otherwise Read More

Curse of the Voodoo

Actors: Dennis Price, Lisa Daniely, Mary Kerridge, Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Synopsis: Lion hunters beware! Chief M'Gobo is watching and waiting to throw a deadly voodoo curse upon anyone who harms his sacred cats. Don't believe us? Just watch what happens to a thoughtless British big game hunter in this horror outing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A High Wind in Jamaica

Actors: Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an unusual look at both seafaring pirates and the true nature of children. The Thorntons, a British family living in Jamaica, decide to pull up stakes and sail back to England after Frederick Thornton (Nigel Davenport) and his wife (Isabel Dean) Read More

A Jolly Bad Fellow

Actors: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Maxine Audley, Duncan MacRae, Dennis Price

Synopsis: They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college professor, of the addlepated rather than absentminded variety. McKern has come to the conclusion that certain people are leeching off society, and the world would be well rid of Read More

The Horror of It All

Actors: Pat Boone, Erica Rogers, Dennis Price, Andree Melly

Synopsis: 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 himself in the midst of a really odd family. One of them talks like Bela Lugosi, another believes herself to be a vampire, while a third is locked Read More

The Comedy Man

Actors: Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: Kenneth More is The Comedy Man in this cinemazation of Douglas Hayes' novel. Having spent most of his life playing the provinces in obscurity, More gives the London TV scene a try. He fails at attaining stardom on his own terms, but becomes a celebrity on TV commercials. After basking in fame for Read More

The Earth Dies Screaming

Synopsis: This obscure little science fiction/horror film (a British-American co-production) stars Willard Parker as a heroic astronaut who returns from a test flight to discover that most of England has been utterly destroyed by alien invaders, whose armies of killer robots have transformed nearly all of Read More

Tamahine

Actors: Nancy Kwan, John Fraser, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Dick Bentley, Derek Nimmo

Synopsis: In this confused parody, a lovely South Seas island girl travels to England following her father's death and becomes the ward of her cousin. The women is exotically beautiful and men turn into fools whenever she passes by. But the innocent lass has no idea that she is so lovely and seductive. At Read More

Murder Most Foul

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank, Megs Jenkins, Dennis Price, Ralph Michael, James Bolam, Stringer Davis, Francesca Annis, Alison Seebohm, Terry Scott

Synopsis: Murder Most Foul represented Margaret Rutherford's third appearance as Agatha Christie's spinsterish sleuth Miss Marple. The film opens with Marple serving on a murder-trial jury. She forces a mistrial because she considers the accused to be innocent; to prove her theory, she traces the trail of Read More

The Cool Mikado

Synopsis: 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 Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza (Japanese mafia) fiance who kidnaps him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doctor in Distress

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Samantha Eggar, Barbara Murray, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: After several years' absence, Dirk Bogarde returns to the popular British "Doctor" film series in Doctor in Distress. Where once Bogarde's Dr. Simon Sparrow was naive and wide-eyed, he is a bit more urbane in this edition. He even manages to offer romantic advice to his old mentor/nemesis Sir Read More

The Cracksman

Actors: Charlie Drake, George Sanders, Dennis Price, Nyree Dawn Porter, Eddie Byrne, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: This colorful slapstick comedy concerns an honest locksmith who gets talked into a safecracking scheme by a couple of ruthless gangsters. Ernest Wright (Charlie Drake) is duped by a con man into opening a car and safe, which lands him in jail for a year. He is released, but a subsequent event gets Read More

The Wrong Arm of the Law

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Bill Kerr, Davy Kaye, Nanette Newman

Synopsis: When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket. Benevolent burglar Peter Sellers, the man in charge of all "respectable" crooks in town (he even offers such incentives as a vacation plan and filmed training sessions!), sets about Read More

Play It Cool

Synopsis: A stodgy British patriarch sends his naive daughter to Europe so that her rock & roll singing boyfriend will dump her. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned when she ends up linked with a handsome pop idol and his band. Fortunately, she is a good girl at heart and ends up learning some Read More

The V.I.P.'s

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an episodic cross-section of humanity in The V.I.P.'s. When a heavy London fog paralyzes all air traffic, the lives of several people are profoundly affected. As indicated by the Read More

Go to Blazes

Actors: Dave King, Robert Morley, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director Michael Truman. Bernard (Dave King) is the ringleader, while Harry and Alfie (Daniel Massey and Norman Rossington) do their best to contribute to the trio's success -- and fail each Read More

Victim

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Peter McEnery

Synopsis: In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay is nothing new: Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who agrees to defend an old friend (John McEnery) on a theft charge, only to be enmeshed in a Read More

The Pot Carriers

Actors: Ronald Fraser, Paul Massie, Carole Lesley, Dennis Price, Paul Rogers, Davy Kaye

Synopsis: In a different type of comedy-drama based on a play by Mike Watts, director Peter Graham Scott looks at life in a British prison. Rainbow (Paul Massie) has just been sent into the slammer for a year for duking it out in a brutal fight over his girlfriend Wendy (Carole Lesley). He knows he is in Read More

What a Carve-Up!

Actors: Kenneth Connor, Sidney James, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: The original British title for No Place Like Homicide was What a Carve-Up. This level of sophistication was maintained for the film itself, a horror film parody served up by members of the Carry On gang. There's a wisp of plot about an wealthy recluse who apparently dies, then equally apparently Read More

The Amorous Mr. Prawn

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Based on Anthony Kimmins' stage success The Amorous Prawn, this British light comedy stars Joan Greenwood as the wife of an Army general (Cecil Parker). Having fallen upon hard times, the wife hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting Read More

Kill Or Cure

Actors: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries, Moira Redmond

Synopsis: Terry-Thomas stars in this British comedy as J. Barker-Rynde, a detective assigned to look into some dirty dealings at a health club. The supporting cast includes Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, and Dennis Price. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Five Golden Hours

Actors: Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders, Kay Hammond, Dennis Price

Synopsis: This Ernie Kovacs cult comedy was the last film directed by Mario Zampi and follows the exploits of Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) who earns his living off wealthy widows. When he consoles the beautiful and impoverished Baroness Sandra (Cyd Charisse), he makes the mistake of falling in love with her. That Read More

The Millionairess

Actors: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price

Synopsis: A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't especially interested, in this comedy based on a play by George Bernard Shaw. Epifania Parerga (Sophia Loren) is a woman who has inherited a vast fortune, making her the Read More

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

Actors: Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Irene Handl, Eric Barker

Synopsis: One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s, this farce by Frank Launder features the usual bevy of comely young women who attend the school. This time around, the femmes terribles have just burnt down the school and Read More

The Rebel

Actors: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Margit Saad, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal appearances, and a string of theatrical films to his credit. In The Rebel (released in the US as Call Me Genius), Hancock plays a middle-class businessman who decides to chuck Read More

Watch It, Sailor?

Synopsis: In this comedy, a sailor gets a nasty surprise as he prepares to marry his beloved. The surprise is a telegram accusing him of fathering an illegitimate son. Though the claim is false, the supposed "mother" makes his life a living nightmare until he can prove his innocence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Double Bunk

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sidney James, Liz Fraser, Dennis Price

Synopsis: A battered houseboat on the Thames provides the setting for this romantic British comedy. Two newlyweds rent the leaky floating home. The trouble begins when the husband decides to move the scow to a better location. The rickety barge disrupts river traffic. Next the two get lost in a fog bank. Read More

No Love for Johnnie

Actors: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach, Donald Pleasence, Billie Whitelaw, Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis: Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's hardly surprised; he's been a loser so long that it's par for the course. Treated shabbily by his communistic wife Rosalie Crutchley, Johnnie begins an affair with Read More

Oscar Wilde

Actors: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the author's tumultuous life. While he was married to a woman named Constance (Phyllis Calvert), Wilde was primarily attracted to men, and at the height of his fame, he became involved Read More

Piccadilly Third Stop

Actors: Terence Morgan, Yoko Tani, John Crawford, Mai Zetterling, William Hartnell

Synopsis: This fast-paced, standard crime story about a caper gone awry is directed by Rilla Wolf and stars Terence Morgan as Dominic, a petty crook with minor crimes on his agenda until he sees a chance for a big haul. Dominic's associates include tough guy Pready (John Crawford) and Edward (Dennis Price) Read More

School for Scoundrels

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott, Dennis Price

Synopsis: In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get ahead in the world. He enrolls in a "school" that specializes in teaching one-upmanship -- the slogan is "How to win without actually cheating." Through fair means and foul Read More

Tunes of Glory

Actors: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Susannah York

Synopsis: Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against another. Alec Guinness is Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair, a man who temporarily takes over command of a regiment until his replacement, Col. Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives. Sinclair Read More

I'm All Right Jack

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features Ian Carmichael as the inept Stanley Windrush, a hopeless twit with -- we are to believe -- an Oxford degree. Unlike others in his social circle, Stanley wants to work. When he tries out Read More

Don't Panic Chaps!

Actors: Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Harry Fowler, Nadja Regin

Synopsis: Don't Panic Chaps! is one of the least distinguished films in a run of 1950s British comedies set during World War II. This time around, four subpar Brit soldiers are dropped off on an island in the Adriatic Sea, not far from Sicily, to establish a base for military observation. After some time Read More

Breakout

Actors: Richard Todd,