Anecdotes

Attempted suicide in 1954 by gas in his Kensington flat.

His brother was Flying Officer Arthur Thomas Rose-Price RAF. He was posted to 501 Hurricane Squadron at Kenley on 9/2/40 at the height of the Battle of Britain. On arrival Rose-Price flew a mission and before he could unpack his kit flew another mission in the afternoon from which he failed to return and was posted missing.

Invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942.

His army officer father was descended from a Cornish baronet's family.

He had two daughters with his wife.

Educated at Radley College and Worcester College, Oxford.

Made his Broadway debut in 1959 with a production of "Heartbreak House."

A memorial service was held for him at St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden on 11/27/73.

He has two roles in common with both Peter Cushing and Mel Brooks: (1) Cushing played Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein s'est échappé (1957). La Revanche de Frankenstein (1958), L'Empreinte de Frankenstein (1964), Frankenstein créa la femme (1967), Le Retour de Frankenstein (1969), Une fois de plus (1970) and Frankenstein et le Monstre de l'enfer (1974), Price played him in Dracula prisonnier de Frankenstein (1972) and Les Expériences érotiques de Frankenstein (1973) and Brooks played him in Frankenstein junior (1974) and (2) Cushing played Professor Van Helsing in Le Cauchemar de Dracula (1958), Les Maîtresses de Dracula (1960), Dracula 73 (1972), Dracula vit toujours à Londres (1973) and Les 7 Vampires d'or (1974), Price played him in Son of Dracula (1973) and Brooks played him in Dracula mort et heureux de l'être (1995).