Vincent Price appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films.
72 Facts About Vincent Price
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Vincent Price became a character actor, appearing in The Song of Bernadette, Laura, The Keys of the Kingdom, Leave Her to Heaven, Dragonwyck, and The Ten Commandments.
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Vincent Price established himself in the horror genre with roles in House of Wax, The Fly, House on Haunted Hill, Return of the Fly, The Tingler, The Last Man on Earth, Witchfinder General, The Abominable Dr Phibes, and Theatre of Blood.
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Vincent Price collaborated with Roger Corman on Edgar Allan Poe adaptations of House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Haunted Palace, and The Masque of the Red Death.
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Vincent Price narrated animated films, radio dramas and documentaries, and provided the narration in Michael Jackson's song "Thriller".
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Vincent Price was an art collector and arts consultant, with a degree in art history.
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Vincent Price's grandfather was Vincent Clarence Price, who invented "Dr Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar-based baking powder, and it secured the family's fortune.
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Vincent Price attended the St Louis Country Day School, and took a summer course at Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut.
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Vincent Price's acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre.
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In 1936, Vincent Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina, which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria.
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Vincent Price made his film debut in Service de Luxe, and established himself in the film Laura, opposite Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger.
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Vincent Price played Joseph Smith in the movie Brigham Young and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson, as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette, and as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom.
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Vincent Price reunited with Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven and Dragonwyck.
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Vincent Price had many villainous roles in film noir thrillers such as The Web, The Long Night, Rogues' Regiment, and The Bribe, with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Charles Laughton.
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Vincent Price's first starring role was as con man James Reavis in the biopic The Baron of Arizona.
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Vincent Price did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with Ronald Colman in Champagne for Caesar, one of his favorite film roles.
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Vincent Price was active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crime-fighter Simon Templar in The Saint, which ran from 1947 to 1951.
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That same year, Vincent Price starred in two thrillers by producer-director William Castle: House on Haunted Hill as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and The Tingler as Dr Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature.
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Vincent Price appeared in the radio drama Three Skeleton Key, the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats.
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Vincent Price had first performed the work in 1950 on Escape and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for Suspense.
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Outside the horror realm, Vincent Price played Baka in The Ten Commandments, released in 1956.
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Vincent Price starred in The Last Man on Earth, the first adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend, and portrayed witch hunter Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General set during the English Civil War.
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Vincent Price starred in comedy films such as Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and its sequel Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs.
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Vincent Price had a recurring role in the Batman TV series as the villain Egghead from 1966 to 1967.
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Vincent Price starred as the host of the Australian TV series If These Walls Could Speak, in which a short history of a historical building was covered, and as the narrating voice of the building.
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Vincent Price accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein in Hamilton, Ontario, on the local television station CHCH-TV.
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Vincent Price appeared in The Abominable Dr Phibes, its sequel Dr Phibes Rises Again, and Theatre of Blood, in which he portrayed one of two serial killers.
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Vincent Price was an admirer of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 1975 visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, where he had his picture taken with the museum's popular stuffed raven.
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Vincent Price recorded dramatic readings of Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by Basil Rathbone.
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Vincent Price greatly reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a slump, and he increased his narrative and voice work, as well as advertising Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture.
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Vincent Price provided a monologue for the Alice Cooper song "The Black Widow" on the Welcome to My Nightmare album in 1975, and he appeared in the corresponding TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare.
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Vincent Price starred for a year in the early 1970s in the syndicated daily radio program Tales of the Unexplained.
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Vincent Price made guest appearances in a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy, showcasing his art expertise, and in a 1972 episode of ABC's The Brady Bunch, in which he played a deranged archaeologist.
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In 1977 Vincent Price recorded a cover version of Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's 1962 Single record The Monster Mash produced by UK record producers Ken Burgess and Bob Newby and released in the UK by EMI Records.
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In 1977, Vincent Price began performing as Oscar Wilde in the one-man stage play Diversions and Delights, written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy, and set in a Parisian theatre on a night about one year before Wilde's death.
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Victoria Vincent Price stated in her biography of her father that several members of Vincent Price's family and friends thought that this was his best acting performance.
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In 1979, Vincent Price starred with his wife in the short-lived CBS series Time Express.
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That same year, Vincent Price provided the spoken-word sequence throughout the Michael Jackson song "Thriller", and appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a television production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore.
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Vincent Price appeared in House of the Long Shadows with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and John Carradine; he had worked with each of those actors at least once in previous decades, but this was the first time that all had teamed up.
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Vincent Price was a lifelong fan of roller coasters, and he narrated a 1987 thirty-minute documentary on the history of roller coasters and amusement parks, including Coney Island.
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In 1984, Vincent Price appeared in Shelley Duvall's live-action series Faerie Tale Theatre as the Mirror in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", and the narrator for "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers".
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In 1989, Vincent Price was inducted into the St Louis Walk of Fame.
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In 1990, Vincent Price recorded the narration as the Phantom for Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor.
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In 2018, during Phantom Manor's major renovation, parts of Vincent Price's narration were announced to be restored to the soundtrack of the attraction.
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Vincent Price, who studied art history at Yale, was an art lover and collector.
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Vincent Price was a commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board.
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Works which Vincent Price selected or commissioned for the collection included some by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali.
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Vincent Price amassed his own extensive collection of art, and in 2008, a painting bought for $25 by a couple from Dallas was identified as a piece from Vincent Price's collection.
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Vincent Price was a gourmet cook, and he authored several cookbooks with his second wife, Mary.
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Mary and Vincent Price present a National Treasury of Cookery was a five-volume series, packaged in a boxed set and published by the Heirloom Publishing Company.
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The movie "His Kind of Woman" has a comedic scene in which Vincent Price, having invited Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum to dinner, receives bad news.
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In 1971, Vincent Price hosted his own cooking program on British television, called Cooking Vincent Price-Wise produced for the ITV network by Thames Television, which was broadcast in April and May 1971.
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Vincent Price promoted his cookbooks on many talk shows, one of the most famous instances being the November 21,1975, broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, when he demonstrated how to poach a fish in a dishwasher.
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Vincent Price recorded a number of audio cooking tutorials titled International Cooking Course.
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Vincent Price prepared a fish recipe on Wolfgang Puck's Cooking with Wolfgang Puck VHS, released in October 1987 by Warner Home Video.
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Vincent Price married Australian actress Coral Browne in 1974; she had appeared as one of his victims in Theatre of Blood.
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Vincent Price denounced racial and religious prejudice as a form of poison at the end of an episode of The Saint, which aired on NBC Radio on July 30,1950, claiming that Americans must actively fight against it because such prejudices within the United States fuels support for the nation's enemies.
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Vincent Price was later appointed to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board under the Dwight D Eisenhower administration; he called the appointment "kind of a surprise, since I am a Democrat".
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Vincent Price was supportive of his daughter when she came out as a lesbian and joined PFLAG as an honorary board member.
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Vincent Price was critical of Anita Bryant's anti-gay-rights campaign in the 1970s.
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Vincent Price suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and Parkinson's disease.
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Vincent Price's symptoms were especially severe during the filming of Edward Scissorhands, requiring his filming schedule to be shortened.
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Vincent Price died at age 82 of lung cancer on October 25,1993, at his home in Los Angeles, California.
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Vincent Price's remains were cremated and his ashes scattered off Nicholas Canyon Beach, near Point Dume in Malibu.
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Vincent Price was an honorary board member and strong supporter of the Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum in Bristol, Connecticut, until his death in 1993.
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The museum features detailed life-sized wax replicas of characters from some of Vincent Price's films, including The Fly, The Abominable Dr Phibes, and The Masque of the Red Death.
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Tim Burton directed a short stop-motion film as a tribute to Vincent Price called Vincent, about a young boy named Vincent Malloy who is obsessed with the grim and macabre; it is narrated by Price.
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Vincent Price was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons.
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Vincent Price had his own Spitting Image puppet, who was always trying to be "sinister" and lure people into his ghoulish traps, only for his victims to point out all the obvious flaws.
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In 1999, a frank and detailed biography about Vincent Price written by his daughter, Victoria, was published by St Martin's Press.
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Vincent Price was classless, even though he was classy, an exaggerated gentleman.
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Vincent Price gave upscale a good name, and he was always handsome, dignified, charming, and a little bit sinister.