Tom Price (actor)
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Tom Price is a British
actor, voice over artist and stand up comedian. He is married to TV producer Beth Morrey, who is most noted for being the creator of hit Channel 4 quiz format Wogan's Perfect Recall.
. He is known to television audiences for being one of the stars of the Five comedy sketch show Swinging. He has also appeared in a recurring role as police officer Andy Davidson
in a number of episodes of Torchwood
, a spin-off from the long running science fiction
series Doctor Who
. In 2008 he starred in the BBC Three
sketch show The Wrong Door
and filmed the role of Darrin Stephens in a pilot UK remake of Bewitched
, which never got aired. Other TV appearances include Doctors (2009) and Secret Diary of a Call Girl
(2010). 2011 will see Price reprise the role of Andy Davidson in Torchwood: Miracle Day airing on BBC One
and US premium television network Starz.
In addition to his TV performances Price has appeared in a minor role in the films The Boat that Rocked
and Hereafter
.
for three series, alongside Peter Davison
, Geoffrey Whitehead
, Matilda Ziegler
and, for series one, Tracy-Ann Oberman
. His radio credits also include the Torchwood Radio Play Asylum
, in which he reprised his role as Andy.
He often works as a standup comedian in and around London. He was in the final of the Daily Telegraph Open Mic award in 2001. He was one of the faces of Destination Three, and he presented Senseless on MTV.
He has appeared in Velvet Triple Soft and Trident "Mastication for the Nation" adverts. He is the voice of Nescafe
. He is also in the Virgin Atlantic advert and appears in jingles on the cult comedy podcast Answer Me This!
.
Tom starred in an episode of Celebrity Ready Steady Cook
with Torchwood co-star Kai Owen
(Rhys
) (recorded 26 August 2009, broadcast 8 January 2010).
He is taking his debut stand-up show, Say When, to the Edinburgh Festival in 2011. Speaking ahead of the opening of Price's Edinburgh show Jmaes Kettle of the Guardian described his comedic style as "easygoing, good-natured autobiographical".
United Kingdom
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actor, voice over artist and stand up comedian. He is married to TV producer Beth Morrey, who is most noted for being the creator of hit Channel 4 quiz format Wogan's Perfect Recall.
TV and Film Career
His first TV appearance was playing a waiter in an Episode of Absolute PowerAbsolute Power
Absolute Power may refer to:*Lord Acton's dictum, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"*The power held by the sovereign of an absolute monarchy*Omnipotence, unlimited power, as of a deity...
. He is known to television audiences for being one of the stars of the Five comedy sketch show Swinging. He has also appeared in a recurring role as police officer Andy Davidson
Andy Davidson (Torchwood)
Andy Davidson is a fictional character in the BBC television programme Torchwood, portrayed by Tom Price. Andy, an officer with the South Wales Police, is a supporting character who first appears in Torchwoods premiere episode "Everything Changes" and recurs regularly from thereon...
in a number of episodes of Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
, a spin-off from the long running science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
. In 2008 he starred in the BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...
sketch show The Wrong Door
The Wrong Door
The Wrong Door is a comedy sketch show, first aired on BBC Three on 28 August 2008. The programme is the first comedy show in which almost all of the sketches have a CGI element. As such, it was produced under the working title of The CGI Sketch Show...
and filmed the role of Darrin Stephens in a pilot UK remake of Bewitched
Bewitched
Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
, which never got aired. Other TV appearances include Doctors (2009) and Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The...
(2010). 2011 will see Price reprise the role of Andy Davidson in Torchwood: Miracle Day airing on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
and US premium television network Starz.
In addition to his TV performances Price has appeared in a minor role in the films The Boat that Rocked
The Boat That Rocked
The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis, with pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s as its setting. The film has an ensemble cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh...
and Hereafter
Hereafter (film)
Hereafter is a 2010 American drama film directed by Clint Eastwood, from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film tells three parallel stories about three people affected by death in similar ways - all three have issues of communicating with the dead; Matt Damon plays...
.
Other Projects
Price appeared as Gordon, a young drunken doctor, in the BBC Radio 4 comedy show Rigor MortisRigor Mortis (radio)
Rigor Mortis is a BBC Radio 4 black comedy set in the pathology department at an NHS hospital. It centers around the working lives of the pathologists and attendant staff who work in the department.-Themes:...
for three series, alongside Peter Davison
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.-Early life:Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham,...
, Geoffrey Whitehead
Geoffrey Whitehead
Geoffrey Whitehead is an English actor. He has appeared in a huge range of television, film and radio roles. In the theatre, he has played at the Shakespeare Globe, St...
, Matilda Ziegler
Matilda Ziegler
Matilda Ziegler is a British television, stage and film actress best known for her roles as Irma Gobb in Mr. Bean and as Donna Ludlow in the long-running BBC1 serial EastEnders and Ruth in the BBC Three sitcom Swiss Toni.-Television career:Matilda Ziegler's first screen role remains her most...
and, for series one, Tracy-Ann Oberman
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Tracy-Ann Oberman is an English television, theatre and radio actress, known for her role as Chrissie Watts in the BBC soap opera Eastenders...
. His radio credits also include the Torchwood Radio Play Asylum
Asylum (Torchwood)
"Asylum" is an original BBC Radio 4 audio play written by Anita Sullivan and is a spin-off from the British science fiction television series Torchwood, itself a spin-off from Doctor Who. This episode aired on the 1 July 2009 on BBC Radio 4...
, in which he reprised his role as Andy.
He often works as a standup comedian in and around London. He was in the final of the Daily Telegraph Open Mic award in 2001. He was one of the faces of Destination Three, and he presented Senseless on MTV.
He has appeared in Velvet Triple Soft and Trident "Mastication for the Nation" adverts. He is the voice of Nescafe
Nescafé
Nescafé is a brand of instant coffee made by Nestlé. It comes in the form of many different products. The name is a portmanteau of the words "Nestlé" and "café". Nestlé's flagship powdered coffee product was introduced in Switzerland on April 1, 1938 after being developed for seven or eight years...
. He is also in the Virgin Atlantic advert and appears in jingles on the cult comedy podcast Answer Me This!
Answer Me This!
Answer Me This! is a weekly comedy podcast by Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann in which they answer questions submitted by the general public. Recorded in Zaltzman's living-room in Crystal Palace, it began in January 2007 and has since become one of the UK's most successful independently-produced...
.
Tom starred in an episode of Celebrity Ready Steady Cook
Ready Steady Cook
Ready Steady Cook was a BBC daytime TV cooking programme it first debuted on 24 October 1994 and the last edition was broadcast on the 2 February 2010. The programme was hosted by Fern Britton from 1994 until 2000 when celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott became the new host...
with Torchwood co-star Kai Owen
Kai Owen
Kai Owen is a Welsh actor of stage and screen, known to Welsh audiences for his numerous roles on Welsh-language television and to worldwide audiences for his portrayal of Rhys Williams in Torchwood....
(Rhys
Rhys Williams (Torchwood)
Rhys Alun Williams, portrayed by Kai Owen, is a fictional character in the BBC television programme Torchwood, a spin-off from the long-running series Doctor Who. The character is introduced in the premiere episode as the co-habiting boyfriend of principal character Gwen Cooper...
) (recorded 26 August 2009, broadcast 8 January 2010).
He is taking his debut stand-up show, Say When, to the Edinburgh Festival in 2011. Speaking ahead of the opening of Price's Edinburgh show Jmaes Kettle of the Guardian described his comedic style as "easygoing, good-natured autobiographical".
Filmography
| Year(s) | Title | Role | | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Holy Flying Circus Holy Flying Circus Holy Flying Circus is a 90-minute BBC television comedy film from 2011, about the 1979 television debate about the film Monty Python's Life of Brian... |
Tim Rice Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice is an British lyricist and author.An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus... |
TV movie |
| My Family | Boy | TV episode "Germs of Endearment" | |
| 2010 | D.O.A | Luke Chambers | TV Movie D.O.A at IMDb |
| Hereafter | Man | Hereafter at IMDb | |
| Secret Diary of a Call Girl Secret Diary of a Call Girl Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The... |
Simon | Episode #3.3 | |
| 2009 | Doctors | Richie Dunston | TV Episode - "Rivals" |
| Hotel Trubble Hotel Trubble Hotel Trubble is a children's comedy drama made by the BBC and broadcast on its television channels CBBC and BBC One. It stars Dominique Moore as Sally, the receptionist; Gary Damer as Lenny; Sam Phillips as Jamie, the bellboy; and Tanya Franks as Dolly and Sheila Bernette as Mrs. Poshington, a... |
Prince Wally | TV Episode - "Royal Trubble" | |
| The Boat That Rocked The Boat That Rocked The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 British comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis, with pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s as its setting. The film has an ensemble cast featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, and Kenneth Branagh... |
Undisclosed | The Boat That Rocked on IMDb | |
| 2008 | The Wrong Door The Wrong Door The Wrong Door is a comedy sketch show, first aired on BBC Three on 28 August 2008. The programme is the first comedy show in which almost all of the sketches have a CGI element. As such, it was produced under the working title of The CGI Sketch Show... |
Various | The Wrong Door at IMDb |
| 2007 | The Scum Also Rises | Billy | TV Movie - The Scum Also Rises at IMDb |
| Living with Two People You Like Individually... But Not as a Couple | Craig | TV Series - Living with Two People You Like Individually... But Not as a Couple at IMDb | |
| Nuclear Secrets Nuclear Secrets Nuclear Secrets, aka Spies, Lies and the Superbomb, is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series which looks at the race for nuclear supremacy from the Manhattan Project through to the Pakistani nuclear weapons.-Production:... |
Pragnell, Max | TV mini-series - Nuclear Secrets at IMDb | |
| 2006–Present | Torchwood Torchwood Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from... |
Andy Davidson Andy Davidson (Torchwood) Andy Davidson is a fictional character in the BBC television programme Torchwood, portrayed by Tom Price. Andy, an officer with the South Wales Police, is a supporting character who first appears in Torchwoods premiere episode "Everything Changes" and recurs regularly from thereon... |
Recurring role |
| 2005 | Swinging Swinging Swinging or partner swapping is a non-monogamous behavior, in which both partners in a committed relationship agree, as a couple, for both partners to engage in sexual activities with other couples as a recreational or social activity... |
Various | TV Programme - Swinging at IMDb |
| Absolute Power Absolute Power Absolute Power may refer to:*Lord Acton's dictum, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"*The power held by the sovereign of an absolute monarchy*Omnipotence, unlimited power, as of a deity... |
Waiter | TV Series - Absolute Power at IMDb |