Dennis Price Bio

[orpheum]

I just looked it up on amazon.One copy only available at a staggering £49 for a paperback.Much as i would like to read this book i am not prepared to pay this price.so i will have to see if the library will get it for me.

[CaptainWaggett]

Why not buy it from Ebay for £14.99 plus postage? I doubt many libraries will stock it since they won't be able to buy from Amazon Marketplace (or indeed Ebay). It's well worth reading.

[Steve Crook]

There is a copy for sale on Amazon for an eyewatering £49! (I searched under Elliot Huntley).

Dennis Price Biog

name='orpheum']I just looked it up on amazon.One copy only available at a staggering £49 for a paperback.Much as i would like to read this book i am not prepared to pay this price.so i will have to see if the library will get it for me.

I'm sure it's not Elliot who's getting all that dosh for it



Steve

[brrrrrett]

Read The Life and Death of Dennis Price last week, a really entertaining read and if you can track a copy down I thoroughly recommend it. Dennis was a fascinating figure and by rights should have been one of the biggest stars of the British film industry. In an era where suave British actors like David Niven and Terry Thomas could strike it big in Hollywood, Dennis Price looks cruelly overlooked. His total lack of ambition, his self deprecating manner and his utter hopelessness with money seem to have killed his career off time and again over the years. What should have been glorious rediscoveries of his skills like the The World of Wooster series seem like strange anomalies amid so many unworthy roles and terrible low budget pictures. He seemed happy with his lot is about the best that can be said really, he even seemed remarkably upbeat about his suicide bid.

[Brief Encounter]

Mediapreview Expert Conversations Dennis Price There's an interview with Elliot here, I'm currently watching it.

[Steve Crook]

Mediapreview Expert Conversations Dennis Price There's an interview with Elliot here, I'm currently watching it.

Sadly it only seems to work in Internet Exploder, not in Firefox



Steve

[Nick Dando]

It works with Safari.



Nick

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Mediapreview Expert Conversations Dennis Price There's an interview with Elliot here, I'm currently watching it.

Quick thanks for this BE

[Lord Brett]

Dennis was so good in comedies that it's easy to forget what a fine dramatic actor he was. Last week I watched him in a 1958 episode of the ITC adventure series HG Wells Invisible Man called Behind the Mask. He played a disfigured politician bent on revenge and put in a finely judged, moving performance despite being hampered by wearing a leather mask which covered half his face for the entire episode.

[Brief Encounter]

Steve, I'm watching it in Firefox...

[Steve Crook]

Steve, I'm watching it in Firefox...

Probably my Ad Blocker at work then



Steve

[Elliot J Huntley]

Just a couple of thoughts after reading this post which I've only just stumbled upon. I would like to stress that it isn't me selling copies of the book on Amazon. Best of luck to whoever is but it certainly isn't me. I am in fact boycotting Amazon, as any author who is a member of their socalled "Advantage Programme" might have sympathy with.



The book is not deleted and far from sold out. I will take care of the issue relating to non-international sales on ebay immediately.



I would also like to stress that the removal of the personal / private bits that some posters have commented on was indeed to ensure the book's publication and I thank those of you familiar with the slog to get the book officially into print and on sale for pointing that out.



I have mixed feelings about the above matter. It was depressing on the one hand to remove certain passages but I would have hated to have been caught peddling inaccuracies that I couldn't verify as absolute facts so I have since persuaded myself that it was a positive thing. Nevertheless I like to think that there were some important topics regarding his life that I was still able to discuss.



Following on from this the likes of John Fraser, Amanda Barrie and Frank Muir do indeed make some rather extraordinary claims about Dennis in their respective books. Interesting reading though their anecdotes make, it was this kind of specious and spurious approach that I was so desperate to avoid.



Yes there is a good mini biography of Dennis Price on the imdb - the one written by my close friend Scott Palmer - the man who coerced me into doing this third version, so thanks on Scott's behalf for the kudos. I shall pass on the comments.



Lastly thanks for the promos for the MediaInterviews I did with Andy Wicks. It was an honour to be invited to do this, I had great fun doing it and I know that Andy intends to do more of this sort of thing. I'm not 100% sure but I think he is now a Britmovie member. I'm sure he would appreciate suggestions for further MediaInterviews.



But above all that thanks ever so much for all the feedback. As I say I only discovered it today and it's really turned around a soggy South Yorkshire tuesday.



Elliot J Huntley

[orpheum]

i have just searched for this book on a used books comparison site with the result that no copies were found.

[CaptainWaggett]

i have just searched for this book on a used books comparison site with the result that no copies were found.

Presumably because people like me who've bought it on eBay aren't ready to part with their copies