Trivia

Attempted suicide in 1954 by gas in his Kensington flat.

Invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942.

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

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.

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.

In 1967 he was bankrupted again owing £10,000 plus back taxes . He claimed that he'd gambled away £8,000 in 2 years.

He has two roles in common with both Peter Cushing and Mel Brooks: (1) Cushing played Victor Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), One More Time (1970) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), Price played him in Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972) and The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973) and Brooks played him in Young Frankenstein (1974) and (2) Cushing played Professor Van Helsing in Horror of Dracula (1958), The Brides of Dracula (1960), Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974), Price played him in Son of Dracula (1973) and Brooks played him in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995).