Vincent Price

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Biography

Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, radio, and in over one hundred films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.

Price was an art collector and consultant, with a degree in art history. He lectured and wrote books on the subject. He was the founder of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California. He was also a noted gourmet cook.

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Known For

Edward Scissorhands

The Inventor

Mean Streets

Verden Fell (archive footage)

The Ten Commandments

Baka

The Great Mouse Detective

Professor Ratigan (voice)

Vincent

Narrator (voice)

Laura

Shelby Carpenter

Columbo

David Lang

Michael Jackson's Thriller

Narrator (voice)

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies MOVIE	Self - (archive footage)
2025	Your tooth Fairy MOVIE	Frederick Loren (archivo de imagen)
2025	The Vincent Price Legacy MOVIE	Himself
2024	Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	They Came from the Attic MOVIE	Dr. Robert Morgan (Archival Footage)
2022	Cheap Thrills: Those Drive-in Horror Flicks MOVIE	Self
2021	Alumination MOVIE	Self
2021	Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. MOVIE	(archive footage)
2020	The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault MOVIE	(archive footage)
2018	Hair Wolf MOVIE	(voice) (uncredited)
2015	Kings of Cult MOVIE	(archive footage)
2014	Hamlet A.D.D. MOVIE	Bob (Archive Footage)
2011	Corman's World MOVIE	Various Roles (archive footage)
2010	2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift MOVIE	(archive footage)
2007	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2006	Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills MOVIE	Self (voice) (archive footage)
2005	Once Upon a Halloween MOVIE	Professor Ratigan (voice) (archive sound)
2001	Pulp Cinema MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2001	Heroes of Horror MOVIE	(archive footage)
1997	The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1997	Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain MOVIE	Self
1994	Vincent Price: My Life and Crimes MOVIE	Himself
1994	Conversations with Vincent MOVIE	Self
1993	The Thief and the Cobbler MOVIE	Zigzag the Grand Vizier (voice)
1992	The Heart of Justice MOVIE	Reggie Shaw
1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker MOVIE	Self
1990	The Making of Edward Scissorhands MOVIE	Self
1990	Edward Scissorhands MOVIE	The Inventor
1990	Tiny Toon Adventures TV	Narrator (voice)
1990	Catchfire MOVIE	Mr. Avoca
1989	Step Into the Third Dimension MOVIE	Himself / Narrator
1988	The Freddy Krueger Special MOVIE	Spirit of the Nightmare (archive footage)
1988	Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz MOVIE	Vincent Price
1988	Dead Heat MOVIE	Arthur P. Loudermilk
1987	Vincent Price: The Sinister Image MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1987	The Little Troll Prince MOVIE	King Ulvik (Right Head) / Kristi and Sonja's Father
1987	The Whales of August MOVIE	Mr. Maranov
1987	Creepy Classics MOVIE	Self - Host
1987	From a Whisper to a Scream MOVIE	Julian White
1987	Biography TV	Self (archive footage)
1987	Sparky's Magic Piano MOVIE	Self
1987	Strange But True Football Stories MOVIE	Self
1986	Vincent Price's Dracula MOVIE	Himself - Host / Narrator
1986	The Great Mouse Detective MOVIE	Professor Ratigan (voice)
1986	Escapes MOVIE	The Mailman
1986	The Nativity MOVIE	King Herod (voice)
1986	Blacke's Magic TV	Self
1985	The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo TV	Vincent Van Ghoul (voice)
1985	Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff MOVIE	Self
1985	Night of 100 Stars II MOVIE	Self
1985	Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! MOVIE	Himself - Introduced
1984	Vincent Price's Halloween Thriller MOVIE	Self - Host
1984	The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1984	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs MOVIE	The Magic Mirror
1984	Bloodbath at the House of Death MOVIE	Sinister Man
1984	Don't Ask Me, Ask God MOVIE	Self
1983	Michael Jackson's Thriller MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1983	Hansel and Gretel MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1983	House of the Long Shadows MOVIE	Lionel Grisbane
1983	The Red Room Riddle MOVIE	Self
1982	Fun with Mr. Future MOVIE	Mad Scientist
1982	Vincent MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1982	Faerie Tale Theatre TV	The Magic Mirror
1982	Faerie Tale Theatre TV	Narrator (voice)
1982	Ruddigore MOVIE	Sir Despard Murgatroyd
1982	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid MOVIE	(in "The Bribe") (archive footage)
1982	Wogan TV	Self
1982	Magic with the Stars MOVIE	Self
1981	America Screams MOVIE	Himself - Host/Narrator
1981	Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner MOVIE	Professor Humperdo
1981	Entertainment Tonight TV	Self - Co-Host
1981	The Monster Club MOVIE	Eramus
1980	The Sorcerer's Apprentice MOVIE	Narrator
1980	I Go Pogo MOVIE	Deacon Mushrat (voice)
1980	John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body MOVIE	Self / R. Montague Crawford
1980	Days of Fury MOVIE	Self - Narrator
1980	Masterpiece Mystery TV	Self
1979	Scavenger Hunt MOVIE	Milton Parker
1979	Once Upon a Midnight Scary MOVIE	Host
1979	CBS Library TV	Host
1979	Trapper John, M.D. TV	Self
1979	The Muppets Go Hollywood MOVIE	Self
1979	Time Express TV	Self
1979	The Horror Show MOVIE	(archive footage)
1978	Ringo MOVIE	Dr. Nancy
1977	Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me MOVIE	Silent Movie Villain
1977	The Love Boat TV	Wendell "The Amazing Alonso" Mordan
1977	The World of Vincent Price MOVIE	Self
1977	The Butterfly Ball MOVIE	The Narrator
1977	The Brady Bunch Hour TV	Self
1976	Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare MOVIE	Spider (voice)
1976	The Captain and Tennille TV	Self - Guest
1976	The Muppet Show TV	Self - Special Guest Star
1976	Joys MOVIE	Self
1976	Donny & Marie TV	Self
1976	The Bionic Woman TV	Self
1975	Ellery Queen TV	Director Michael Raynor
1975	Journey into Fear MOVIE	Dervos
1975	Alice Cooper: The Nightmare MOVIE	The Spirit of the Nightmare
1974	The Devil's Triangle MOVIE	Narrator
1974	Dinah! TV	Self
1974	Percy's Progress MOVIE	Stavos Mammonian
1974	Madhouse MOVIE	Paul Toombes
1974	The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute MOVIE	Self
1973	The Snoop Sisters TV	Michael Bastion
1973	Mean Streets MOVIE	Verden Fell (archive footage)
1973	Theatre of Blood MOVIE	Edward Lionheart
1972	Dr. Phibes Rises Again MOVIE	Dr. Anton Phibes
1971	Mooch Goes to Hollywood MOVIE	Vincent Price
1971	What's a Nice Girl Like You...? MOVIE	William Spevin
1971	Film '72 TV	Self
1971	The Jimmy Stewart Show TV	Self
1971	Columbo TV	David Lang
1971	The Hilarious House of Frightenstein TV	The Host
1971	The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour TV	Self
1971	V.I.P. Schaukel TV	Self
1971	Cooking Price-Wise TV	Self
1971	Here Comes Peter Cottontail MOVIE	January Q. Irontail (voice)
1971	The Abominable Dr. Phibes MOVIE	Dr. Anton Phibes
1971	The Pet Set TV	Self
1970	Cucumber Castle MOVIE	Wicked Count Voxville
1970	Night Gallery TV	Self
1970	Cry of the Banshee MOVIE	Lord Edward Whitman
1970	Scream and Scream Again MOVIE	Dr. Browning
1970	An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe MOVIE	Narrator
1969	Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee MOVIE	Narrator
1969	Love, American Style TV	Self
1969	The Brady Bunch TV	Professor Hubert Whitehead
1969	The Brady Bunch TV	Professor Hubert Whitehead (uncredited)
1969	The Trouble with Girls MOVIE	Mr. Morality
1969	The Oblong Box MOVIE	Sir Julian Markham
1969	More Dead than Alive MOVIE	Dan Ruffalo
1968	The Mod Squad TV	Self
1968	Here's Lucy TV	Vincent Price
1968	Witchfinder General MOVIE	Matthew Hopkins
1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV	Self
1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV	Self (uncredited)
1968	The Movie Orgy MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1967	The Jackals MOVIE	Oupa Decker
1967	House of 1,000 Dolls MOVIE	Felix Manderville
1967	The Carol Burnett Show TV	Self - Guest / Various Characters
1967	The Carol Burnett Show TV	Self
1966	Clown Alley MOVIE	The Skin Diver / Sharpshooter / Working Man
1966	Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs MOVIE	Dr. Goldfoot / General Willis
1966	Batman TV	Egghead
1965	The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot MOVIE	Dr. Goldfoot
1965	Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine MOVIE	Dr. Goldfoot
1965	BBC Play of the Month TV	Dr. Austin Sloper
1965	Get Smart TV	Jarvis Pym
1965	The Dean Martin Show TV	Self
1965	F Troop TV	Self
1965	War-Gods of the Deep MOVIE	Sir Hugh
1964	The Tomb of Ligeia MOVIE	Verden Fell
1964	Daniel Boone TV	Dr. Thaddeus Morton
1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. TV	Victor Marton
1964	Chagall MOVIE	Narrator
1964	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV	Professor Multiple
1964	The Masque of the Red Death MOVIE	Prince Prospero
1964	The Last Man on Earth MOVIE	Dr. Robert Morgan
1964	The Comedy of Terrors MOVIE	Waldo Trumbull
1964	Horror!!! MOVIE	Self
1963	Taboos of the World MOVIE	Narrator (English edit)
1963	The Danny Kaye Show TV	Self
1963	Twice-Told Tales MOVIE	Alex Medbourne / Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini / Gerald Pyncheon
1963	The Haunted Palace MOVIE	Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen
1963	Beach Party MOVIE	Big Daddy
1963	Diary of a Madman MOVIE	Simon Cordier
1963	The Raven MOVIE	Dr. Erasmus Craven
1963	Monsters and Madonnas: The World of William Mortensen MOVIE	Himself
1962	Tower of London MOVIE	Richard of Gloucester
1962	The Merv Griffin Show TV	Self
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self (archive footage)
1962	Convicts 4 MOVIE	Carl Carmer
1962	Tales of Terror MOVIE	Locke / Fortunato / Valdemar / Narrator
1962	Confessions of an Opium Eater MOVIE	Gilbert De Quincey
1961	Famous Ghost Stories MOVIE	Poltergeist/Narrator
1961	Rage of the Buccaneers MOVIE	Romero
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self
1961	Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile MOVIE	Benakon
1961	The Pit and the Pendulum MOVIE	Nicholas Medina / Sebastian Medina
1961	Naked Terror MOVIE	Narrator(voice)
1961	Master of the World MOVIE	Captain Robur
1960	House of Usher MOVIE	Roderick Usher
1960	The Chevy Mystery Show TV	Self - Host
1960	The Chevy Mystery Show TV	Michael Seemes
1959	Startime TV	Self
1959	Adventures in Paradise TV	Armand Duchette
1959	Riverboat TV	Otto Justin
1959	The Bat MOVIE	Dr. Malcolm Wells
1959	The Tingler MOVIE	Dr. Warren Chapin
1959	Return of the Fly MOVIE	Francois Delambre
1959	The Big Circus MOVIE	Hans Hagenfeld
1959	House on Haunted Hill MOVIE	Frederick Loren
1958	The Fly MOVIE	François Delambre
1958	Passionate Pastime MOVIE	Narrator
1957	Collector’s Item MOVIE	Mr. Prentiss
1957	The Story of Mankind MOVIE	Mr. Scratch / The Devil
1957	The Mystery of Thirteen MOVIE	Self - Host
1957	Have Gun, Will Travel TV	Self
1956	The Ten Commandments MOVIE	Baka
1956	Forbidden Area MOVIE	Clark Simmons
1956	Playhouse 90 TV	Clark Simmons
1956	The Vagabond King MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1956	The Steve Allen Show TV	Self
1956	The Rosemary Clooney Show TV	Self
1956	While the City Sleeps MOVIE	Walter Kyne
1956	Serenade MOVIE	Charles Winthrop
1955	Matinee Theater TV	Self
1955	Crossroads TV	Self
1955	Crossroads TV	Rev. Robert Russell
1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV	Charles Courtney
1955	Night of Execution MOVIE	Gideon Rone
1955	Son of Sinbad MOVIE	Omar
1954	Climax! TV	Gideon Rone
1954	Climax! TV	Casey Lodge
1954	Climax! TV	Dr. Farrin
1954	The George Gobel Show TV	Self
1954	The Mad Magician MOVIE	Don Gallico
1954	Casanova's Big Night MOVIE	Casanova
1954	Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake MOVIE	Colonel Edwin L. Drake
1954	Dangerous Mission MOVIE	Paul Adams
1953	House of Wax MOVIE	Henry Jarrod
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1953	General Electric Theater TV	Death
1953	General Electric Theater TV	Vince Meagher
1953	General Electric Theater TV	Philosophical Peddler Beauregard Archibald
1952	The Las Vegas Story MOVIE	Lloyd Rollins
1951	Adventures of Captain Fabian MOVIE	George Brissac
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV	Self
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV	Narrator / Wendell Bensen
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV	Swede
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV	An Artist
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV	Baron Laval aka Aristide Pujol
1951	The Red Skelton Show TV	Self
1951	The Red Skelton Show TV	Dr. Sigmund Fraud
1951	His Kind of Woman MOVIE	Mark Cardigan
1951	Pictura MOVIE	Narrator (segment "The Lost Paradise") (voice)
1951	Notes on the Port of St. Francis MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1950	Lux Video Theatre TV	Herbert
1950	Lux Video Theatre TV	Joseph Bentley
1950	Lux Video Theatre TV	Christoff
1950	Lux Video Theatre TV	Dr. Austin Sloper
1950	The Maya Through the Ages MOVIE	Narrator
1950	Curtain Call at Cactus Creek MOVIE	Tracy Holland
1950	Champagne for Caesar MOVIE	Burnbridge Waters
1950	The Baron of Arizona MOVIE	James Addison Reavis
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self - Mystery Guest
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self
1950	Robert Montgomery Presents TV	Peter Hammond
1949	The Christmas Carol MOVIE	Narrator
1949	Bagdad MOVIE	Pasha Ali Nadim
1949	Lights Out TV	Self
1949	The Bribe MOVIE	Carwood
1948	Rogues' Regiment MOVIE	Mark Van Ratten
1948	The Three Musketeers MOVIE	Richelieu
1948	Up in Central Park MOVIE	Boss Tweed
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show TV	Self
1948	Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein MOVIE	The Invisible Man (voice)
1947	The Web MOVIE	Andrew Colby
1947	Moss Rose MOVIE	Police Inspector Clinner
1947	The Long Night MOVIE	Maximilian the Great
1946	Dragonwyck MOVIE	Nicholas Van Ryn
1946	Shock MOVIE	Dr. Richard Cross
1945	Leave Her to Heaven MOVIE	Russell Quinton
1945	A Royal Scandal MOVIE	Marquis de Fleury
1944	The Keys of the Kingdom MOVIE	Angus Mealey
1944	Laura MOVIE	Shelby Carpenter
1944	Wilson MOVIE	William Gibbs McAdoo
1944	The Eve of St. Mark MOVIE	Francis Marion
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Co-Host
1943	The Song of Bernadette MOVIE	Prosecutor Vital Dutour
1940	Hudson's Bay MOVIE	King Charles II
1940	Brigham Young MOVIE	Joseph Smith
1940	The House of the Seven Gables MOVIE	Clifford Pyncheon
1940	Green Hell MOVIE	David Richardson
1940	The Invisible Man Returns MOVIE	Geoffrey Radcliffe
1939	Tower of London MOVIE	Duke of Clarence
1939	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex MOVIE	Sir Walter Raleigh
1938	Service de Luxe MOVIE	Robert Wade
	Beyond Doubt MOVIE	Man (archive footage)
	Discovering: Vincent Price MOVIE	Self

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