Vincent Price

**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

|width="33"|Year|width="200"|Movie|width="160"|Role|width="130"|Director|width="50"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1938|_Service de Luxe_|Robert Wade|Rowland V. Lee|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|1939|_The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex_|Sir Walter Raleigh|Michael Curtiz||||||
|_Tower of London_|Duke of Clarence|Rowland V. Lee||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|1945|_A Royal Scandal_|Marquis de Fleury|Ernst Lubitsch Otto Preminger||||||
|_Leave Her to Heaven_|Russell Quinton|John M. Stahl||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|1946|_Shock_|Dr. Richard Cross|Alfred L. Werker||||||
|_Dragonwyck_|Nicholas Van Ryn|Joseph L. Mankiewicz||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="3"|1947|_The Web_|Andrew Colby|Michael Gordon||||||
|_The Long Night_|Maximilian|Anatole Litvak||||||||
|_Moss Rose_|Police Inspector R. Clinner|Gregory Ratoff||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|1949|_The Bribe_|Carwood|Robert Z. Leonard||||||
|_Bagdad_|Pasha Ali Nadim|Charles Lamont||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="3"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="3"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="5"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="5"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="3"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="3"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|1967|_The House of 1,000 Dolls_|Felix Manderville|Jeremy Summers||||||
|_The Jackals_|Oupa Decker|Robert D. Webb||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="3"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|1974|_Madhouse_|Paul Toombes|Jim Clark||||||
|_Percy's Progress_|Stavos Mammonian|Ralph Thomas||||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|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||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|1981|_The Monster Club_|Eramus|Roy Ward Baker||||||
|_Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner_|Professor Humperdo|John Trent||||||||
|rowspan="2"|1982|_Vincent_|Narrator|Tim Burton|Voice|||||
|_Fun with Mr. Future_|Mad Scientist|Darrell Van Citters|Voice|||||||
|rowspan="2"|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|||||||
|rowspan="2"|1985|_The Little Troll Prince_|Ulvik #1|Ray Patterson|Voice|||||
|_The Black Cauldron_|Horned King's Guards|Richard Rich Ted Berman|Voice|||||||
|rowspan="2"|1986|_The Great Mouse Detective_|Professor Ratigan|Burny Mattinson, Ron Clements, David Michener, John Musker|Voice|||||
|_Escapes_|Host / The Mailman|David Steensland|Television movie|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="4"|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|||||||
|align="left" rowspan="2"|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

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Vincent Price
- **image**: Vincent Price Get Smart 1969.JPG
- **caption**: Price in _Get Smart_ (1969)
- **birth name**: Vincent Leonard Price Jr.
- **birth place**: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **death cause**: Lung cancer
- **years active**: 1935–1991
- **spouse**: Edith Barrett
(m. 1938–1948, divorced)
Mary Grant Price
(m. 1949–1973, divorced)
Coral Browne
(m. 1974–1991; her death)