{{Short description|American businessman (born 1967 or 1968)}} {{for|the American architect|Roy Seldon Price}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Roy Price | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- Valid citation required if adding EXACT DATE OF BIRTH for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) -->{{birth based on age as of date|51|2019|1|4}} | birth_place = | nationality = | occupation = entertainment executive | relatives = Frank Price (father) | education = Harvard University (BA)<br>University of Southern California (JD) }} '''Roy Price''' (born 1967)<ref name="Gardner" /> is a former Amazon.com executive. He worked for over 13 years at Amazon, where he founded Amazon Video and Amazon Studios.<ref name="Greene">{{cite web |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/boss-of-amazon-studios-tv-movie-venture-a-little-unconventional/ |title=Boss of Amazon Studios' TV-movie venture 'a little unconventional' |work=Seattle Times |first=Jay |last=Greene |date=April 13, 2015 |access-date=2023-12-13}}</ref> He was suspended in 2017 over sexual harassment allegations that were never legally charged.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nathanson|first1=Jason|last2=Rothman|first2=Michael|title=Amazon Studios President Roy Price resigns amid harassment allegation|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/amazon-studios-president-roy-price-resigns-amid-harassment/story?id=50544849|access-date=28 October 2017|website=ABC News|date=17 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="Wired10Questions">{{cite magazine|last1=Tate|first1=Ryan|title=10 Questions With Amazon Studios Chief Roy Price|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/11/amazon-studios-roy-price/|magazine=Wired}}</ref> He is a former Disney executive and McKinsey consultant.<ref name=bloomberg />
==Family and education== Price has been described as being from "Hollywood royalty."<ref name=Appelo/> His mother, Katherine Crawford, was an actress known for ''Riding with Death'' (1976), ''A Walk in the Spring Rain'' (1970) and ''Gemini Man'' (1976).<ref name=Appelo/> 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.<ref name=Appelo/> His maternal grandfather, Roy Huggins, created and produced TV shows like ''The Fugitive'', ''The Rockford Files'' and ''Maverick''.<ref name=Appelo/>
Price graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard University, and later attended USC Gould School of Law.<ref name=Appelo/>
==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.<ref name=bloomberg>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2017-how-did-i-get-here/roy-price.html |title=How Did I Get Here? Roy Price |work=Bloomberg Businessweek |date=2017 |access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref>
From 1993 to 2000, Price was the Vice President of Creative Affairs for Disney TV Animation.<ref name=Appelo /><ref name=bloomberg /> 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).<ref name=landau>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aClACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 |title=TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution |publisher=CRC Press |first=Neil |last=Landau |author-link=Neil Landau |year=2015 |page=16 |isbn=9781317439721 |access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref> Also, several animated films and direct to videos including ''Recess: School's Out'' (2001), ''Tarzan & Jane'' and ''Mickey's House of Villains''.<ref name=landau />
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.<ref name=bloomberg />
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.<ref name=bloomberg />
From 2004 to 2009, Price worked as a Group Product manager, director, and Amazon Video on Demand.<ref name=bloomberg /><ref name=Appelo>{{cite web |url=http://seattlebusinessmag.com/retail-services/amazing-rise-amazon-studios |title=The Amazing Rise of Amazon Studios |work=Seattle Business Magazine |first=Tim |last=Appelo |date=February 2017 |access-date=October 22, 2017}}</ref> He launched Amazon Video in 2008 and Amazon Studios in 2010.<ref name=Appelo /> From 2009–2014, Price also worked as Director of Amazon Video on Demand.<ref name=bloomberg /> From 2014–2017, Price was head of Amazon Studios, and VP for Prime Video.<ref name=bloomberg />
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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/business/media/amazon-roy-price-isa-dick-hackett.html|title=Amazon Studios Chief Suspended After Sexual Harassment Claim|last1=Koblin|first1=John|date=October 12, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 25, 2018|last2=Wingfield|first2=Nick|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|first=Kim|last=Masters|author-link=Kim Masters|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amazon-tv-producer-goes-public-harassment-claim-top-exec-roy-price-1048060|title=Amazon TV Producer Goes Public With Harassment Claim Against Top Exec Roy Price (Exclusive)|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=October 12, 2017|access-date=January 25, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/12/rose-mcgowan-amazon-studios-harvey-weinstein-ignore-rape|title=Rose McGowan alleges rape by Harvey Weinstein – and Amazon ignored claim|last1=Levin|first1=Sam|date=October 13, 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 20, 2017|last2=Solon|first2=Olivia}}</ref> After the claims were published, Amazon suspended Price,<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/amazon-suspends-top-exec-roy-price-wake-harassment-claim-1000036|title=Amazon Suspends Top Exec Roy Price in Wake of Harassment Claim|last=Masters|first=Kim|author-link=Kim Masters|date=12 October 2017|work=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/10/amazon-memo-roy-price-suspension-sexual-harassment-1202188230/|title=Amazon Memo Reveals Roy Price Suspension Is "Indefinite", Reaffirms Zero Tolerance For Harassment|last1=Andreeva|first1=Nellie|date=13 October 2017|work=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref> and on October 17, 2017, he resigned his position at Amazon.<ref name="Dastin">{{cite news|first=Jeffrey|last=Dastin|title=Amazon Studios chief resigns after harassment allegations|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-roy-price/amazon-studios-chief-resigns-after-harassment-allegations-idUSKBN1CM308|access-date=18 October 2017|publisher=Reuters|date=18 October 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Gardner">{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rambling-reporter/roy-price-has-a-very-new-career-amazon-exit-1172752 |title=Roy Price Has a Very Different New Career After Amazon Studios Ouster |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Chris |last=Gardner |date=January 4, 2019 |access-date=November 3, 2019}}</ref>
Price's career was described as "unconventional",<ref name="Greene" /> and as "irreverent, puckish and infinitely bolder than most Hollywood execs".<ref name=Appelo />
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