| Gilbert Price | |
| Birth Date: | 10 September 1942 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Death Date: | January 2, 1991 (aged 48) |
| Death Place: | Vienna, Austria |
| Occupation: | Stage, film, television actor |
Gilbert Price (September 10, 1942 – January 2, 1991) was an American operatic baritone and actor.
Price was a protégé of Langston Hughes. He was a life member of New York's famed Actors Studio.[1] Price first gained notice in 1964, for his performances in Hughes' Off-Broadway production of Jerico-Jim Crow. For his work, Price received a Theatre World Award.[2]
Price was born on September 10, 1942, in New York City of African-American heritage. In 1960, he graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, where he stood out for both his talent and gentle, easygoing manner.[2] It has been written that while he was a protégé of Langston Hughes, Hughes had become smitten with the young Price.[3] Unpublished love poems by Hughes were addressed to a man Hughes called Beauty; it has been posited these poems referred to Price.[4]
Price made guest appearances on several television talk and variety shows including The Ed Sullivan Show, Red Skelton, Garry Moore and The Merv Griffin Show.[5] Price also sang oratorios, including Leonard Bernstein's Mass, in 1971.
Price was nominated for three Tony Awards and was the recipient of a Theatre World Award:[6] [7]
Price died in Vienna, Austria, in 1991 at age 48, of accidental asphyxiation due to a faulty space heater.[8]