Stanley Price

Stanley Price was an American actor who appeared in more than 200 films between 1922 and 1956 and held a charter membership in the Screen Actors Guild. Born in Kansas in 1892, he began in silent pictures with Your Best Friend in 1922 and worked across four decades, from silents to talkies to color. He became a familiar face in cliffhanger serials, often cast as the chief villain's second-in-command, doing the physical labor and turning cowardly when the hero fought back. Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) and Zorro's Black Whip (1944) were among them. He showed a gift for comedy in Road to Morocco (1942) and Three Stooges shorts including Punchy Cowpunchers, Dopey Dicks and Studio Stoops, and he played Marshal Charley Blythe in West of the Brazos. He later played doctors, reporters and bankers in roughly 100 westerns and 39 serials, and took dialogue director credits for Lippert Studios, at least 18 of them. He died in 1955.