Roy Price

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Roy Price
Born1967or1968(age 57–58)
Education Harvard University (BA)
University of Southern California (JD)
Occupationentertainment executive

Roy Price (born 1967) [1] is a former Amazon.com executive. He worked for over 13 years at Amazon, where he founded Amazon Video and Amazon Studios. [2] He was suspended in 2017 over sexual harassment allegations that were never legally charged. [3] [4] He is a former Disney executive and McKinsey consultant. [5]

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Family and education

Price has been described as being from "Hollywood royalty." [6] His mother, Katherine Crawford, was an actress known for Riding with Death (1976), A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) and Gemini Man (1976). [6] His father, Frank Price, held a number of prominent Hollywood executive positions including head of Universal TV in the 1970s; President, and later Chairman and CEO, of Columbia Pictures; and president of Universal Pictures. [6] His maternal grandfather, Roy Huggins, created and produced TV shows like The Fugitive , The Rockford Files and Maverick . [6]

Price graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard University, and later attended USC Gould School of Law. [6]

Career

From 1989 to 1990 Price worked as a film set assistant, specifically, "third assistant camera" during the Fiji shooting of Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). From 1990 to 1992, Price worked as a financial analyst at Allen & Company. [5]

From 1993 to 2000, Price was the Vice President of Creative Affairs for Disney TV Animation. [6] [5] Price developed or supervised TV series including Recess (1997), Pepper Ann (1997), Hercules (1998), Timon & Pumbaa (1995), Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000), The Weekenders (2000), and Emmy and BAFTA winner Teacher's Pet (2000). [7] Also, several animated films and direct to videos including Recess: School's Out (2001), Tarzan & Jane and Mickey's House of Villains . [7]

After his time with Disney, Price worked as a consultant for McKinsey from 2000–2002, a global management consulting firm that serves a broad mix of private, public and social sector institutions. [5]

From 2003 to 2004, Price operated out of Price Entertainment (his father's studio established in the late 80s) and acted as a business consultant to media companies. [5]

From 2004 to 2009, Price worked as a Group Product manager, director, and Amazon Video on Demand. [5] [6] He launched Amazon Video in 2008 and Amazon Studios in 2010. [6] From 2009–2014, Price also worked as Director of Amazon Video on Demand. [5] From 2014–2017, Price was head of Amazon Studios, and VP for Prime Video. [5]

In 2017, Amazon producer Isa Dick Hackett told The Hollywood Reporter that Price, then the programming chief at Amazon, had sexually harassed her in 2015. [8] Hackett also alleged that Price had failed to take action when another actress, Rose McGowan, told him she was sexually assaulted by producer Harvey Weinstein. [9] [10] After the claims were published, Amazon suspended Price, [9] [11] [12] and on October 17, 2017, he resigned his position at Amazon. [13] About a month after leaving Amazon, Price moved permanently to Hong Kong where he founded an art management and consulting firm called International Art Machine, in November 2017. [1]

Price's career was described as "unconventional", [2] and as "irreverent, puckish and infinitely bolder than most Hollywood execs". [6]

References

  1. 1 2 Gardner, Chris (January 4, 2019). "Roy Price Has a Very Different New Career After Amazon Studios Ouster". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Greene, Jay (April 13, 2015). "Boss of Amazon Studios' TV-movie venture 'a little unconventional'". Seattle Times . Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  3. ↑ Nathanson, Jason; Rothman, Michael (17 October 2017). "Amazon Studios President Roy Price resigns amid harassment allegation". ABC News . Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Tate, Ryan. "10 Questions With Amazon Studios Chief Roy Price". Wired .
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "How Did I Get Here? Roy Price". Bloomberg Businessweek . 2017. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Appelo, Tim (February 2017). "The Amazing Rise of Amazon Studios". Seattle Business Magazine. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  7. 1 2 Landau, Neil (2015). TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution. CRC Press. p. 16. ISBN   9781317439721 . Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  8. ↑ Koblin, John; Wingfield, Nick (October 12, 2017). "Amazon Studios Chief Suspended After Sexual Harassment Claim". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  9. 1 2 Masters, Kim (October 12, 2017). "Amazon TV Producer Goes Public With Harassment Claim Against Top Exec Roy Price (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  10. ↑ Levin, Sam; Solon, Olivia (October 13, 2017). "Rose McGowan alleges rape by Harvey Weinstein – and Amazon ignored claim". The Guardian . Retrieved October 20, 2017.
  11. ↑ Masters, Kim (12 October 2017). "Amazon Suspends Top Exec Roy Price in Wake of Harassment Claim". The Hollywood Reporter .
  12. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (13 October 2017). "Amazon Memo Reveals Roy Price Suspension Is "Indefinite", Reaffirms Zero Tolerance For Harassment". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  13. ↑ Dastin, Jeffrey (18 October 2017). "Amazon Studios chief resigns after harassment allegations". Reuters. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
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