Nancy Price, CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970), born Lilian Nancy Bache Price in Kinver, Staffordshire, England, was an actress, authoress and manageress of Little Theatre in the Adelphi, a West End theatre on the Strand in London.
Before acting in films, Nancy was an established stage actress. Her roles included India in Elgar's Imperial Masque The Crown of India at the London Coliseum in March 1912.
Nancy was married to the actor Charles Maude until his death in 1943 and together they had a daughter, the actress Joan Maude. In her full and varied career Price appeared in over thirty films and published twenty four books of anecdotes, essays, novels, plays, autobiography and poems.
Nancy worked with many of the leading British and American film directors of her day including:Herbert Wilcox, Bert Wynne, Carol Reed, Thomas Bentley, Thornton Freeland, Marc Allegret, Sidney Morgan, Charles Reisner, William C. deMille, George Pearson, Walter Forde, Arthur Crabtree, James Patrick Hogan, Charles Calvert, Jack Raymond, Stanley Haynes, Sinclair Hill, Daniel Birt, Harold French, Michael Powell, Cecil Hepworth, Randle Ayrton, Harry Lachman, G. B. Samuelson, Alexander Mackendrick, Edgar Selwyn, and Fred Paul.
Raising the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain, Andrew Higson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-812369-8. Chapter on Comin' Thro' The Rye: pp. 26—97.