# Vincent Price

| Vincent Price |
| --- |
| Price in *Get Smart* (1969) |
| Born | Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (1911-05-27)May 27, 1911 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | October 25, 1993(1993-10-25) (aged 82) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Occupations | * Actor
* art historian
* art collector
* gourmet cook
* voice actor
 |
| Years active | 1935–1991 |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Barrett (m. 1938–1948, divorced) Mary Grant Price (m. 1949–1973, divorced) Coral Browne (m. 1974–1991; her death) |
| Children | * Vincent Barrett
* Victoria
 |

**Vincent Leonard Price Jr.** (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor. He was well known for his voice and serious but comic attitude in a series of horror movies made in the later part of his career. Price was also an art collector and consultant, with a degree in art history, and lectured and wrote books on the subject. He was the founder of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California.

## Career

His career began in 1935. He starred in film noirs. He soon moved to star in horror movies. He would work with other known horror movie stars such as Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. He received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his works. Price narrated Michael Jackson's hit song "Thriller". Price also played the villain Egghead in the 1960s television series *Batman*. He retired in 1993 shortly before his death.

## Personal life

Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at Yale University. He was married three times. His first two marriages both ended in divorce. His last marriage was to Caral Browne who died in 1991.

Price died of lung cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 82. He was cremated and his ashes scattered off Point Dume in Malibu, California.

## Movies

| Year | Movie | Role | Director | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1938 | *Service de Luxe* | Robert Wade | Rowland V. Lee |  |
| 1939 | *The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex* | Sir Walter Raleigh | Michael Curtiz |  |
| *Tower of London* | Duke of Clarence | Rowland V. Lee |  |
| 1940 | *The Invisible Man Returns* | Geoffrey Radcliffe | Joe May |  |
| *Green Hell* | David Richardson | James Whale |  |
| *The House of the Seven Gables* | Clifford Pyncheon | Joe May |  |
| *Brigham Young* | Joseph Smith | Henry Hathaway |  |
| 1941 | *Hudson's Bay* | King Charles II | Irving Pichel |  |
| 1943 | *The Song of Bernadette* | Prosecutor Vital Dutour | Henry King |  |
| 1944 | *The Eve of St. Mark* | Pvt. Francis Marion | John M. Stahl |  |
| *Wilson* | William Gibbs McAdoo | Henry King |  |
| *Laura* | Shelby Carpenter | Otto Preminger |  |
| *The Keys of the Kingdom* | Angus Mealey | John M. Stahl |  |
| 1945 | *A Royal Scandal* | Marquis de Fleury | Ernst Lubitsch Otto Preminger |  |
| *Leave Her to Heaven* | Russell Quinton | John M. Stahl |  |
| 1946 | *Shock* | Dr. Richard Cross | Alfred L. Werker |  |
| *Dragonwyck* | Nicholas Van Ryn | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |  |
| 1947 | *The Web* | Andrew Colby | Michael Gordon |  |
| *The Long Night* | Maximilian | Anatole Litvak |  |
| *Moss Rose* | Police Inspector R. Clinner | Gregory Ratoff |  |
| 1948 | *Up in Central Park* | Boss Tweed | William A. Seiter |  |
| *Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein* | The Invisible Man | Charles Barton | Voice Uncredited |
| *Rogues' Regiment* | Mark Van Ratten | Robert Florey |  |
| *The Three Musketeers* | Richelieu | George Sidney |  |
| 1949 | *The Bribe* | Carwood | Robert Z. Leonard |  |
| *Bagdad* | Pasha Ali Nadim | Charles Lamont |  |
| 1950 | *The Baron of Arizona* | James Reavis | Samuel Fuller |  |
| *Champagne for Caesar* | Burnbridge Waters | Richard Whorf |  |
| *Curtain Call at Cactus Creek* | Tracy Holland | Charles Lamont |  |
| 1951 | *Adventures of Captain Fabian* | George Brissac | William Marshall |  |
| *His Kind of Woman* | Mark Cardigan | John Farrow |  |
| *Pictura: An Adventure in Art* | Narrator | Various |  |
| 1952 | *The Las Vegas Story* | Lloyd Rollins | Robert Stevenson |  |
| 1953 | *House of Wax* | Professor Henry Jarrod | Andre DeToth |  |
| 1954 | *Dangerous Mission* | Paul Adams | Louis King |  |
| *Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake* | Colonel Edwin L. Drake | Arthur Pierson |  |
| *Casanova's Big Night* | Casanova | Norman Z. McLeod | Uncredited |
| *The Mad Magician* | Don Gallico | John Brahm |  |
| 1955 | *Son of Sinbad* | Omar Khayyam | Ted Tetzlaff |  |
| 1956 | *Serenade* | Charles Winthrop | Anthony Mann |  |
| *While the City Sleeps* | Walter Kyne | Fritz Lang |  |
| *The Vagabond King* | Narrator | Michael Curtiz | Voice Uncredited |
| *The Ten Commandments* | Baka | Cecil B. DeMille |  |
| 1957 | *The Story of Mankind* | The Devil | Irwin Allen |  |
| 1958 | *The Fly* | François Delambre | Kurt Neumann |  |
| 1959 | *House on Haunted Hill* | Frederick Loren | William Castle |  |
| *Return of the Fly* | Francois Delambre | Edward Bernds |  |
| *The Big Circus* | Hans Hagenfeld | Joseph M. Newman |  |
| *The Tingler* | Dr. Warren Chapin | William Castle |  |
| *The Bat* | Dr. Malcolm Wells | Crane Wilbur |  |
| 1960 | *House of Usher* | Roderick Usher | Roger Corman |  |
| 1961 | *Master of the World* | Robur | William Witney |  |
| *Pit and the Pendulum* | Nicholas Medina Sebastian Medina | Roger Corman |  |
| *Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile* | Benakon | Fernando Cerchio |  |
| *Rage of the Buccaneers* | Romero | Mario Costa |  |
| 1962 | *Confessions of an Opium Eater* | Gilbert De Quincey | Albert Zugsmith |  |
| *Tales of Terror* | Locke Fortunato Luchresi Ernest Valdemar | Roger Corman |  |
| *Convicts 4* | Carl Carmer | Millard Kaufman |  |
| *Tower of London* | Richard of Gloucester | Roger Corman |  |
| 1963 | *The Raven* | Dr. Erasmus Craven | Roger Corman |  |
| *Diary of a Madman* | Magistrate Simon Cordier | Reginald Le Borg |  |
| *Beach Party* | Big Daddy | William Asher |  |
| *The Haunted Palace* | Joseph Curwen Charles Dexter Ward | Roger Corman |  |
| *Twice-Told Tales* | Alex Medbourne Giacomo Rappaccini Gerald Pyncheon | Sidney Salkow |  |
| 1964 | *The Comedy of Terrors* | Waldo Trumbull | Jacques Tourneur |  |
| *The Last Man on Earth* | Dr. Robert Morgan | Ubaldo Ragona |  |
| *The Masque of the Red Death* | Prince Prospero | Roger Corman |  |
| 1965 | *The Tomb of Ligeia* | Verden Fell | Roger Corman |  |
| *War-Gods of the Deep* | Sir Hugh, The Captain | Jacques Tourneur |  |
| *Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine* | Dr. Goldfoot | Norman Taurog |  |
| 1966 | *Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs* | Dr. Goldfoot General Willis | Mario Bava |  |
| 1967 | *The House of 1,000 Dolls* | Felix Manderville | Jeremy Summers |  |
| *The Jackals* | Oupa Decker | Robert D. Webb |  |
| 1968 | *Witchfinder General* (U.S. title *Conqueror Worm*) | Matthew Hopkins | Michael Reeves |  |
| *Spirits of the Dead* | Narrator | Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim | English version Uncredited |
| 1969 | *More Dead Than Alive* | Dan Ruffalo | Robert Sparr |  |
| *The Trouble with Girls* | Mr. Morality | Peter Tewksbury |  |
| *The Oblong Box* | Sir Julian Markham | Gordon Hessler |  |
| 1970 | *Scream and Scream Again* | Dr. Browning | Gordon Hessler |  |
| *An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe* | Narrator | Kenneth Johnson |  |
| *Cry of the Banshee* | Lord Edward Whitman | Gordon Hessler |  |
| *Cucumber Castle* | Wicked Count Voxville | Hugh Gladwish |  |
| 1971 | *Here Comes Peter Cottontail* | January Q. Irontail | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Voice |
| *The Abominable Dr. Phibes* | Dr. Anton Phibes | Robert Fuest |  |
| *Mooch Goes to Hollywood* | Himself | Richard Erdman |  |
| *What's a Nice Girl Like You...?* | William Spevin | Jerry Paris |  |
| 1972 | *Dr. Phibes Rises Again* | Dr. Anton Phibes | Robert Fuest |  |
| 1973 | *Theatre of Blood* | Edward Lionheart | Douglas Hickox |  |
| 1974 | *Madhouse* | Paul Toombes | Jim Clark |  |
| *Percy's Progress* | Stavos Mammonian | Ralph Thomas |  |
| 1975 | *Journey Into Fear* | Dervos | Daniel Mann |  |
| *Welcome to My Nightmare* | The Curator | David Winters | Voice |
| 1976 | *The Butterfly Ball* | Narrator | Tony Klinger | Voice |
| 1979 | *Scavenger Hunt* | Milton Parker | Michael Schultz |  |
| 1980 | *Pogo for President: 'I Go Pogo'* | The Deacon | Marc Paul Chinoy | Voice |
| 1981 | *The Monster Club* | Eramus | Roy Ward Baker |  |
| *Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner* | Professor Humperdo | John Trent |  |
| 1982 | *Vincent* | Narrator | Tim Burton | Voice |
| *Fun with Mr. Future* | Mad Scientist | Darrell Van Citters | Voice |
| 1983 | *House of the Long Shadows* | Lionel Grisbane | Pete Walker |  |
| *Michael Jackson's Thriller* | Narrator | John Landis | Voice |
| 1984 | *Bloodbath at the House of Death* | Sinister Man | Ray Cameron |  |
| 1985 | *The Little Troll Prince* | Ulvik #1 | Ray Patterson | Voice |
| *The Black Cauldron* | Horned King's Guards | Richard Rich Ted Berman | Voice |
| 1986 | *The Great Mouse Detective* | Professor Ratigan | Burny Mattinson, Ron Clements, David Michener, John Musker | Voice |
| *Escapes* | Host / The Mailman | David Steensland | Television movie |
| 1987 | *The Nativity* | King Herod | Don Lusk | Voice |
| *From a Whisper to a Scream* | Julian White | Jeff Burr |  |
| *The Whales of August* | Mr. Maranov | Lindsay Anderson |  |
| *Sparky's Magic Piano* | Henry, Sparky's father | Lee Mishkin | Voice |
| 1988 | *Dead Heat* | Arthur P. Loudermilk | Mark Goldblatt |  |
| 1990 | *Catchfire* | Mr. Avoca | Dennis Hopper |  |
| *Edward Scissorhands* | The Inventor | Tim Burton |  |
| 1992 | *The Heart of Justice* | Reggie Shaw | Bruno Barreto | Television movie |
| 1995 | *The Thief and the Cobbler* | Zig-Zag the Grand Vizier | Richard Williams | Voice |

## Other websites

* Official Website
* Vincent Price at AllMovie
* Vincent Price at the Internet Broadway Database
* Vincent Price on IMDb