Brendan Price

Brendan Price is a British theatre, movie, and television actor. He graduated, winning the prize for outstanding dialect work and began his career in the regional theatres of England. He worked in a number of the major theatres, playing a diverse range of parts in the plays of Anton Chekhov, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, and in those of many other writers, both classical and modern. Television His television career began in 1972 with a part in the BBC’s Play of The Month series in James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. For the next few years, his work moved freely between television and theatre until he made his first film, a starring role in the sex comedy Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973), which was due to be directed by a young Jonathan Demme, but Demme was dismissed from the project. Price offered to resign his role in sympathy with him, but Demme counselled him to stay with the part, imparting the advice "In this business these things happen." Price benefitted from this lesson; his TV credits are numerous, and he has played guest roles in many major British television series including Doctor Who (in the serial The Face of Evil), Space 1999, The Sweeney. He played the role of Bonney in the BBC’s internationally sold series Target. Back on stage, he played the title role of The Gambling Man in an adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. Miss Cookson said in her autobiography: "He was my perfect Gambling Man!".