Vincent Price was born on May 27, 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri.
On October 25, 1993 Vincent Price passed away in Los Angeles,
California from lung cancer and emphysema.
1993 was Vincent Price's final appearance in the cable-TV
movie THE HEART OF JUSTICE. Vincent Price was best known as
The King of the Grand Guignol , Bink and The Merchant of Menace.
Makeing his screed debut Price went to Hollywood in 1938,
debuting in SERVICE DE LUXE. Starring in what remains Vincent
Price most popular film ever in 1953, the 3-D smash HOUSE
OF WAX in which he played a mad sculptor who uses molten wax
to make statues of corpses!
In 1960 Vincent Price achieved his first major success with the horror classic
HOUSE OF USHER.
Best known for his distinctive, low-pitched, creaky voice
and his serious facial expressions, Vincent Price, star in
a series of acclaimed Gothic horror movies, such as PIT AND
THE PENDULUM (1961) and THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHILBES (1971).
With the voice of terror Vincent Price was a host of BBC Radio's
THE PRICE OF FEAR (1973-1975, 1983).
In the 70s Vincent Price and his wife at the time decided
to present cooking programs for television - he wrote A TREASURY
OF GREAT RECIPES (1965). He was a gourmet Chef and loved to
cook. Price founded the Vincent Price Gallery and Art Foundation
on the campus of the East Los Angeles Community College in
1951.
Shortly before his death, Vincent Price said that one of
his most favorite roles was the voice of Professor Ratigan
in the Disney feature THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (1986), especially
since two original songs had been written for him.
Vincent Price provided the quasi-"rap" voiceover for Michael
Jackson's Thriller in 1982.
Price often appeared in movies with 'house' in the title
- most of them being horror movies - such as THE HOUSE OF
THE SEVEN GABLES (1940), HOUSE OF WAX (1953) and HOUSE ON
HAUNTED HILL (1959). Price was the Wednesday night host for
CBS Radio's Sears Mystery Theater (1979), even when it changed
to The Mutual Radio Theater on Mutual Radio (1980).
Vincent Price's other notable credits include...
