Roy Price

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Roy Price
Born1967or1968(age 56–57)
Education Harvard University (BA)
University of Southern California (JD)
Occupationentertainment executive

Roy Price (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 claims that were never legally charged. [3] [4] He is a former Disney executive, and is a former McKinsey consultant. [5] Roy has developed 16 patented technologies, and his developed television series have won 12 Best Series awards from the Golden Globes and Emmys. [6]

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Family and education

Price has been described as being from "Hollywood royalty." [7] His mother, Katherine Crawford, was an actress known for Riding with Death (1976), A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970) and Gemini Man (1976). [7] His father, Frank Price, held a number of 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. [7] His maternal grandfather, Roy Huggins, created and produced TV shows like The Fugitive , The Rockford Files and Maverick . [7]

Price graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard University, and later attended USC Gould School of Law. [7]

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. [7] [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). [8] Also, several animated films and direct to videos including Recess: School's Out (2001), Tarzan & Jane and Mickey's House of Villains . [8]

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] [7] He launched Amazon Video in 2008 and Amazon Studios in 2010. [7] 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. [9] 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. [10] [11] After the claims were published, Amazon suspended Price, [10] [12] [13] and on October 17, 2017, he resigned his position at Amazon. [14] 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". [7]

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