Nancy Price

Nancy Price

Born: February 2, 1880
Died: March 31, 1970
in Kinver, Staffordshire, England
Nancy Price, CBE, was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. Her stage carrier began in 1900 and ended in 1950. She played her first film role in 1916 and the last in 1952, all in all she appeared in 29 films. Her first TV role was in 1938, during British TV's brief pre-war period, and she then appeared in four TV plays in 1950 and 1951.

Movies for Nancy Price...

Mandy
Title: Mandy
Character: Jane Ellis
Released: July 29, 1952
Type: Movie
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
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The Naked Heart
Title: The Naked Heart
Character: Thérésa Suprenant
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes back to the family farm. Robert Gagnon, a villager and childhood friend, loves her secretly but Maria is wooed by Lorenzo Surprenant, a man who has fled his home town to escape the police. The one she is really in love with is François Paradis, a handsome trapper. The latter promises to marry her in the spring, as soon as he is back from the Far North. Robert, who is aware of how miserable Maria is, writes a letter to François , asking him to come back at once. Unfortunately, the young trapper is buried under the snow during a storm. As for Lorenzo he gets gunned down by the police. Finally understanding that Robert has sacrificed himself out of love for her, Maria accepts to become his wife.
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The Three Weird Sisters
Title: The Three Weird Sisters
Character: Gertrude Morgan-Vaughan
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
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The Master of Bankdam
Title: The Master of Bankdam
Character: Lydia Crowther
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Mrs. Trewhella
Released: December 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the bright lights of the big city and for the arms of her artist lover. Unfortunately, her husband is all too aware of this.
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I Know Where I'm Going!
Title: I Know Where I'm Going!
Character: Mrs. Crozier
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: Mrs. Wilson
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
Title: Madonna of the Seven Moons
Character: Mama Barucci
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
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Secret Mission
Title: Secret Mission
Character: Violette, housekeeper
Released: October 5, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
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Dead Man's Shoes
Title: Dead Man's Shoes
Character: Madame Pelletier
Released: May 5, 1940
Type: Movie
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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The Speckled Band
Title: The Speckled Band
Character: Mrs Staunton
Released: March 5, 1931
Type: Movie
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
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Such Is the Law
Title: Such Is the Law
Character: Aunt
Released: November 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
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The Loves of Robert Burns
Title: The Loves of Robert Burns
Character: Posie Nancy
Released: March 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Biography of the ploughboy poet.
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The American Prisoner
Title: The American Prisoner
Character: Lovey Lee
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
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His House in Order
Title: His House in Order
Character: Lady Ridgeley
Released: February 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.
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Huntingtower
Title: Huntingtower
Character: Mrs Moran
Released: December 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Title: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Character: Lady Kingsburgh
Released: November 1, 1923
Type: Movie
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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Love, Life and Laughter
Title: Love, Life and Laughter
Character: Her Friend
Released: June 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.