Nancy Price, CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970), was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. In addition to appearing on stage she became involved in theatre production and was a founder of the People's Theatre. Whilst it is tempting to separate her career into three distinct areas (stage, screen, and writing), apart from her early career where she was just acting on stage and her late career where she was just writing, for a period of forty years she was engaged in all three.
She authored thirteen books and served as editor of The People's Theatre magazine.
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Along with with the Dutch-born theatre impresario J.T. Grein, Nancy Price founded the People's National Theatre in 1930 and ran it for ten years, producing some 80 plays for the London stage.
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She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
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Made her first stage appearance in 1899.
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Was also a painter, author, musicologist, climber, naturalist, world-wide traveler and quasi-mystic.
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