Frank Price

Frank Price was born on May 17, 1930 in USA. Frank Price's big-screen debut came with The Final Hour directed by Robert Douglas in 1965. Frank Price is known for Groundhog Day directed by Harold Ramis, Bill Murray stars as Phil and Andie MacDowell as Rita. Frank Price has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Frank Price achieved is American Cinema Foundation, USA. The upcoming new movie Frank Price plays is Mariette in Ecstasy which will be released on Nov 13, 2019.

One of the few Hollywood executives to come out of a writing background, Price interrupted his early TV career (where he was story editor and writer for CBS-TV from 1951-53) with a stint as story editor at Columbia Pictures (1953-57), which he would later head at two separate times. As the head of Universal TV in the 1970's, he developed or supervised L'homme qui valait 3 milliards (1974), Super Jaimie (1976), L'incroyable Hulk (1977), Galactica (1978), Deux cent dollars plus les frais (1974) and many others. He is credited with helping to create new TV formats: movies made-for-TV and the mini-series, as well as the 90-minute series. In 1978, Price left the presidency of Universal TV to become President, and later Chairman and CEO, of Columbia Pictures where he was involved with such story-driven, award-winning films as Kramer contre Kramer (1979), Tootsie (1982) and Gandhi (1982) and top-grossers as S.O.S fantômes (1984) and Le moment de vérité (1984). In 1983, after conflict with parent company Coca-Cola over his autonomy, Price swung back to Universal as chairman of the motion picture group and president of Universal Pictures, where he developed Retour vers le futur (1985), Fletch aux trousses (1985), Out of Africa - Souvenirs d'Afrique (1985) and Breakfast Club (1985). After Sony's purchase of Columbia, the newly-installed executives, Jon Peters and Peter Guber, appointed Price to head Columbia Pictures. Eighteen months later, in October 1991, when his colleague at Warner Bros., Mark Canton, was freed from his contract, he was brought in to replace Price, who continued his association with Sony Pictures Entertainment with a non-exclusive production deal.