Trivia

Chaired USC School of Cinema-Television Board of Councilors.

Was president of Universal Pictues.

Was chairman of Columbia Pictures.

Was chairman of MCA Motion Picture Group.

Father, with Katherine Crawford, of sons Roy Price and William Francis Price III.

Son-in-law of Roy Huggins.

Stepson-in-law of Adele Mara.

During his reign at Columbia Pictures, he infamously denied final cut privileges to Randal Kleiser's highly expected follow-up to Grease (1978), The Blue Lagoon (1980).

In the 1960s, he is credited with helping to develop the "made-for-TV movie" and the 90-minute miniseries television format, including The Virginian (1962-1970).

In 1957, he was story editor of NBC's Emmy Award-winning Matinee Theater.

Frank Price was an American television writer and film studio executive. He held a number of executive positions including head of Universal TV; president, and later chairman and CEO, of Columbia Pictures; and president of Universal Pictures.

After Columbia was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company in January 1982, Price lost out in a power struggle with Francis T. Vincent, chairman of Columbia Pictures Industries, over how to position Columbia in the new pay-cable TV market. In October 1983, Price resigned from Columbia.

Frank Price was also on the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California. In 2022, USC awarded him an honorary degree.

Price worked on a novel of his own (never published), he said it was "my version of The Last Tycoon", an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the life of a Hollywood studio manager. "I know that world better than F. Scott Fitzgerald," Price said.

Price was chairman of the Board of Councilors for the USC School of Cinema-Television since its inception in 1992, where he assembled a board that included Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, David Geffen, among others.