Vincent Price

Name: Vincent Price
Date of Birth: May 27, 1911
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Mini-bio: Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American film actor. Vincent Price is best remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctiv...( read more)

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Vincent Price mini-bio: Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American film actor. Vincent Price is best remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive horror films. His tall stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older Boris Karloff.

Vincent Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Vincent Leonard Price and Marguerite Willcox. His father was president of the National Candy Company. Vincent Jr. attended St. Louis Country Day School. He was further educated at Yale in art history and fine art. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and the Courtauld Institute, London. He became interested in theater in the 1930s, appearing professionally on stage from 1935. Price's adult height was 6 foot, 4 inches. He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself as a competent player, notably in Laura (1944), directed by Otto Preminger. He acted as Joseph Smith, Jr. in the movie Brigham Young (1940). During the 1940s, he appeared in a wide variety of films from straightforward drama to comedy to horror (he provided the voice of The Invisible Man at the end of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in 1948). He was also active in radio, portraying the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter Simon Templar, a.k.a. The Saint, in a popular series that ran from 1947 to 1951. In the 1950s, he moved into horror films, enjoying a role in the successful curiosity House of Wax (1953), the first 3-D film to land in the year's top ten at the North American box office, and then the classic monster movie The Fly (1958). Price also starred in the original House on Haunted Hill (1959) as the eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren. (Geoffrey Rush, playing the same character in the 1999 remake, was not only made to resemble Price, but was also renamed after him.)

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darnitalltoheck

GOsh no words can describe what kind of actor you were! Amazing couldn't do it nor could fascinating even those are the things you were. Your impact on this world will always and forever be here! You have inspired me and I thank you!

posted 474 days ago
msharvie

Classic actor, handsome, wonderful and unmistakable voice, painter and gourmet cook. What a man! Remember the haunting laugh on Thriller sound track. Thank you for all the great memories Vincent.

posted 510 days ago
RammsteinxEngel

Vincent Price is my favorite actor of all time. Every role that he played, he played to perfection. He had everything that an actor should have. ^^

It's too bad there are not more actors like him. He is missed a whole lot!

posted 540 days ago
ministrymember99

when it comes to horror and thriller flicks no one does quite like vincent price. He is one of the few originators and has a bone chilling voice that would paralyze the strongest of men.
He is the absolute master of macobre!!!

posted 545 days ago
jaynyca1

There is a reason why that they called him the "Master of the Macobre" and it was for good reason, no one could play all those characters the way he did. You kinda knew it was the same person, but in a way, it wasn't kinda weird but he really could make the hairs stand on the back of your neck, and from what I've heard about him, he really was a very good gormet cook, too?. . . Imagine goin' over to his house for dinner?. . . The stories he could tell you and the "way" he could tell them.

posted 546 days ago
darkbagpiper

When I was around 7 years old I was a hugh fan of his. I would watch his movies all the time when they came on TV. Still is a legend in my eyes.

posted 567 days ago
lasmiley87

He was a great actor. So much that I named my son Vincent in honor of Mr. Price.

posted 588 days ago
anneanddixie

What a fantastic actor Vincent was ! Magnificent voice. I am glad he was in "Edward Scissorhands" - a lovely ending to a long and distinguished career.

posted 603 days ago
develish1

when it comes to a voice, the kind that really chills you, then Vincent is the king. I loved all the films of his I've seen and hope eventually to see them all

posted 633 days ago
smartcookieeater72

vincent kicks but! no seriously! ok maybe u havent seen some of his movies but i think the best r the bat and the tingler! hehe, my cousin likes the toy they used 4 the tingler...

posted 669 days ago