Stanley Price

For the English novelist and playwright, see Stanley Price (writer).

Stanley Price
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Born	(1892-12-31)December 31, 1892 Kansas, United States
Died	Garden Grove, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart attack
Resting place	Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
Occupation	actor
Years active	1922-1955

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 born in Kansas, United States.

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. 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, bombs or whatever else happened to be handy at the time. Nevertheless, he was another of these loyal henchmen who always seemed to break down and turn into a gutless weasel and outright coward when confronted by the hero.

Eventually, Price was simply a doctor, barkeep, native, reporter, prosecutor, banker, chemist, reporter, psychotic or nobility member, appearing in about 100 westerns and 39 serials. His flair for comedy also was well represented in the film Road to Morocco, as the blithering idiot in the opening bazaar scene, as well in The Three Stooges films Punchy Cowpunchers, Dopey Dicks and Studio Stoops. He also had at least 18 dialogue director credits for Lippert Studios.

Death

Price died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California at age 62. He was buried in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery.

Selected appearances

Films

• Meet John Doe (1941)
• Johnny Eager (1942)
• Road to Morocco (1942)
• Outlaws of Pine Ridge (1942)
• Crime, Inc.
• Tough Assignment (1949)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Punchy Cowpunchers (1950)
• The Sundowners (1950)
• Dopey Dicks (1950)
• Studio Stoops (1950)
• Man from the Black Hills (1952)

Serials

• The Miracle Rider (1935)
• Red Barry (1938)
• Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
• Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
• Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
• Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
• Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941)
• Holt of the Secret Service (1941)
• Perils of the Royal Mounted (1942)
• King of the Mounties (1942)
• Gang Busters (1942)
• Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)
• G-men vs. the Black Dragon (1943)
• Batman (1943)
• The Masked Marvel (1943)
• The Phantom (1943)
• Captain America (1944)
• The Tiger Woman (1944)
• The Desert Hawk (1944)
• Black Arrow (1944)
• Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
• The Monster and the Ape (1945)
• Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
• The Crimson Ghost (1946)
• Son of Zorro (1947)
• The Black Widow (1947)
• Brick Bradford (1947)
• Superman (1948)
• Congo Bill (1948)
• King of the Rocket Men (1949)
• The Invisible Monster (1950)
• Pirates of the High Seas (1950)

TV-shows

• The Adventures of Kit Carson (1954)
• Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955)

External links

• Stanley Price at Find a Grave
• Stanley Price at AllMovie
• Stanley Price at the Internet Movie Database