Brendan Price

Brendan Price (born 24 June 1947) is a theater, movie, and television British actor. He graduated, winning the prize for outstanding Dialect work and began his career, like so many other successful actors, learning his trade 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. --- His television career began with a part in the BBC’s prestigious 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 comedy Secrets of a Door to Door Salesman, which was due to be directed by a young Jonathan Demme, but, unfortunately, he was dismissed from the project. Brendan offered to resign his role in sympathy with him, but Jonathan counselled him to stay with the part. "In this business these things happen,"—Jonathan advised him. It was a good lesson to learn so early in his career. Brendan’s TV credits are numerous, and he has played guest roles in many of English Television’s major series including Doctor Who, Space 1999,The Sweeney. He created the role of Bonney in the BBC’s internationally sold series Target. Back on stage, he created the title role of The Gambling Man in an adaptation of the Catherine Cookson's novel. Miss Cookson said in her autobiography: "He was my perfect Gambling Man!". His career took another turn when he moved to live in Spain. This opened up a new market for his talents, which were quickly recognised. For nearly two years he played a regular part in the series Calle Nueva. He followed this with other guest roles, and he had a major part in the award winning film Los Sin Nombre released in the US as The Nameless directed by Jaume Balagueró. He was also in Dagon directed by Stuart Gorden, The Nun and The Sleep of Death, an adaptation of the Japanese novel by Eloy Lozano.