A slim, sad-eyed and intense performer of stage, screen and TV, Pryce won a Best Supporting Actor Tony for his 1976 Broadway debut in "Comedians". The Welsh-born Pryce (who changed the spelling of his birth name, Price, to join Actors' Equity) began his career onstage in Liverpool and by the mid-1970s was appearing in London productions. With the Royal Court, National and Old Vic theatre companies, Pryce made impressions as a particularly rowdy Petruchio in "The Taming of the Shrew" (1978), in the title role of "Hamlet" (1980) and as Astrov in "Uncle Vanya" (1988). Pryce became a figure of