Vincent Price

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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor best known for his appearances in horror films, but his career spanned many genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy.

He appeared on stage, television, and radio, as well as in more than 100 films.

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he has two actors, one for motion pictures and one for television.

He was born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri, and is a member of the St. Louis Walk of Fame. He taught and wrote books on the subject, and he was an art historian and arts consultant with a degree in art history.

In his honor, the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College has been named.

He was also a well-known gourmet cook.

Personal life

Price has been married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to actress Edith Barrett; they had one son, poet, and columnist Vincent Barrett Price. In 1948, Edith and Price separated. Price married Mary Grant in 1949, and they had a daughter, inspirational speaker Victoria Price, on April 27, 1962, naming her after Price's first big success in the play Victoria Regina. The marriage didn't take place until 1973. In 1974, he married Australian actress Coral Browne; she had appeared in Theatre of Blood (1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991.

Price's biography, A Daughter's Biography (1999), discusses the poet's early antisemitism and initial admiration for Adolf Hitler. "He went to Germany and Austria as a young man, and he was struck by a lot of things during the Weimar Republic and the empire's disillusion"," his father said. So when Hitler came to power, he wasn't quite sure that he'd be able to restore German pride. However, Price became a liberal after being rejected for a year by McCarthyism, including Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman. Victoria said her father became so liberal that "one of my brothers' earliest memories is when Franklin Roosevelt's funeral was announced," "my father and my uncle were slumping backwards off the couch sobbing."

At the end of an episode of The Saint, which aired on NBC Radio on July 30, 1950, Price said that Americans must combat actively against it because such prejudices in the United States fuels support for the country's enemies. He was later appointed to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board under the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, and he said the appointment was "a surprise," because I am a Democrat.

When she first emerged as a lesbian and joined PFLAG as an honorary board member, Price was sympathetic to his daughter. In the 1970s, he was critical of Anita Bryant's anti-gay-rights campaign. Price was also one of the first celebrities to film a public service announcement to help alleviate public worries about HIV/AIDS. Victoria revealed in an interview in 2015 that her father confided in her his intimate affairs with men when she came out to him as a lesbian.

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Early life and career

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 27, 1911, making him the youngest of Vincent Leonard Price's four children and his partner Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price's. Vincent Clarence Price, the first cream of tartar-based baking powder, was his grandfather, who created "Dr. Price's Baking Powder," the first cream of tartar-based baking powder that was popular in the family's household. Peregrine White, the first child born in colonial Massachusetts, was of Welsh and English descent and was descendant from his father's. He was born on the Mayflower as it was in Provincetown Harbor.

In Milford, Connecticut, Price attended the St. Louis Country Day School and Milford Academy. He graduated with a degree in English and a minor in art history from Yale University, where he worked on the Yale University humor magazine The Yale Record in 1933. After teaching for a year, he took the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, aiming to study for a master's degree in fine arts. Rather, he was drawn to the theater, first appearing on stage for the first time in 1934. His acting career began in 1935, when he appeared in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre.

In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in Laurence Housman's production Victoria Regina, which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria.

Later career

Price hosted and appeared in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series The Price of Fear in the early 1970s. On the local television station CHCH-TV, he accepted a cameo appearance in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario. He performed much more than the opening and closing monologues; instead of the opening and closing monologues, he was able to recite poems about various characters, some of whom were wearing a cloak or other costumes. He appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), and Theatre of Blood (1973), in which he played one of two serial killers. He appeared in Mooch Goes to Hollywood, a Jim Backus film that was released that year.

Price, a collector of Edgar Allan Poe's work, attended the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, where he was photographed with the museum's famous stuffed raven. Poe's short stories and poems were also published in a book by Basil Rathbone, which were mixed with readings.

Price and his wife Coral Browne appeared in an international stage version of Ardèle in Glasgow and London at the Queen's Theatre in 1975. Browne and Price appeared together in the BBC Radio play Night of the Wolf first airing in 1975. As horror itself suffered, Price greatly reduced his film output from 1975 to 1980, as well as advertising Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Apple sculpture.

On the Welcome to My Nightmare album in 1975, Price provided a monologue for Alice Cooper's "Devil's Food" on the Alice Cooper album "Devil's Food," and he appeared in the corresponding television program Alice Cooper: The Nightmare. He appeared in Tales of the Unexplained, a syndicated daily radio show. In 1970 edition 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, he appeared in guest appearances. In October 1976, he appeared as the featured guest in a episode of The Muppet Show.

Price began playing in the one-man stage play Diversion and Delights, written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy, and set in a Parisian theatre on a night one year before Wilde's death in 1977. In every city except for New York City, the original tour of the play was a hit. Price appeared as Wilde at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado, on the same stage from which Wilde had talked to miners about art some 96 years ago. He appeared in the play around the world. Victoria Price said in her biography of her father that many relatives of Price's family and friends agreed this was his best acting role.

Price appeared alongside his wife in the short-lived CBS show Time Express in 1979. He hosted America Screams, an hour-long television special, riding on several roller coasters and retracing their history during the same year. He hosted the "Mystery Night" segment of the Radio program Sears Radio Theater from 1979 to 1980.

In 1981, Price converted Vincent, Tim Burton's six-minute film about a teenage boy who flashes from reality to a fantasy in which he is Vincent Price. Price appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a television version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore the same year as well as Keith Michell as Robin Oakapple. He appeared in the British spoof horror film Bloodbath at the House of Death in 1983. He 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 recent decades, but this was the first time that they had met together. In Walt Disney Pictures' The Great Mouse Detective (1986), one of his last major roles, and one of his favorites, was as Professor Ratigan's voice.

Price appeared on PBS television shows Mystery! from 1981 to 1989. He appeared on Hanna-Barbera's The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo in 1985 as the elusive "Vincent Van Ghoul," who assisted Scooby-Doo and the gang in capturing thirteen demons. He was a lifelong fan of roller coasters, and narrated a 1987 thirty-minute documentary about roller coasters and amusement parks, including Coney Island. He appeared in horror-themed commercials for Tilex bathroom cleaners from 1985 to 1989.

Price appeared in Shelley Duvall's live-action film Faerie Tale Theatre as the Mirror in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1984, as the Mirror, and the narrator of "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers." In 1987, he appeared with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August, a tale about two sisters living in Maine facing the end of their days. His appearance in The Whales of August earned his first award nomination of his career, a Best Supporting Male award.

Price was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1989. Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990) was his last significant film work.

Price was narrating the narration as the Phantom for Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor in 1990. After the attraction opened in 1992, Gérard Chevalier replaced it with a completely French version. Only Price's infamous yelphales remained on the soundtrack. Parts of Price's narration were announced to be restored to the attraction's soundtrack in 2018, during Phantom Manor's major renovations. Since the 2019 reopening, the new tracks are in both English and French; Price's original excerpts as well as previously unreleased content from his 1990 album make up the English-speaking portion of the English-speaking portions, while actor Bernard Alane portrays the Phantom in French.

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