Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 - October 25, 1993) is an American actor, best known for his distinctive voice and appearance in horror movies. Her career spans other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, radio, and over a hundred films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for movies, and one for television. Born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri, Price also has a star in St. Louis. Louis Walk of Fame.
Price is an art collector and consultant, with degrees in art history, teaching and writing a book on the subject. In addition, he is the founder of the Vincent Price Art Museum in California. He is also a famous gourmet cook.
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Early life and career
Price was born at St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of four children from Vincent Leonard Price Sr. (July 30, 1871 - June 18, 1948), president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (nÃÆ' Â © e Wilcox) Price (October 28, 1874 - September 12, 1946). His grandfather, Vincent Clarence Price, created "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar-based toaster powder, and secured family wealth.
Price is of British descent and is a descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in Colonial Massachusetts, born Mayflower when in the port of Massachusetts. The price has some Welsh ancestors as well.
Price attended St. Louis State School, as well as Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in art history from Yale University, where he worked in the Yale Record's humorous humor magazine. After teaching for a year, he entered the University of London, intending to study for a master's degree in fine arts. Instead, he was attracted to the theater, first performing on stage professionally in 1934. His acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welles's Mercury Theater.
In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in Laurence Housman's production in America, Victoria Girls, starring Helen Hayes in the lead role of Queen Victoria.
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Introduction to movie role
The price starts in the movie as a character actor. He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself in the movie Laura (1944), opposite Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger. He played Joseph Smith in Brigham Young film and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson and Bernadette's prosecutor Vital Dutour at The Song of Bernadette (1943), and as a clergyman at The Keys of the Kingdom (1944).
His first venture into the horror genre, where he became famous, was in the movie Boris Karloff 1939 Tower of London. The following year, the price illustrates the title character in The Invisible Man Returns (the role he changed in the cameo vocals at the end of 1948 comedy horror comedy
In 1946, Price reunited with Tierney in two famous films, Dragonwyck and Leave Her to Heaven . There are also many bad roles in the noir thriller movies like The Web (1947), The Long Night (1947), Resimen Rogues' (1948) > The Bribe (1949), with Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, and Charles Laughton.
The role of the main cast is as a cheater James Addison Reavis in the 1950 biopic The Baron of Arizona. He performed a comedy play as the Burnbridge Waters tycoon, starring along with Ronald Colman at Champagne for Caesar , one of his favorite movie roles.
He was active on the radio, portraying Robin Hood fighters inspired by the Simon Templar at The Saint , which ran from 1947-51. In the 1950s, Price moved into a horror movie, with a role in House of Wax (1953) where he played a killer sculptor, the first 3-D movie to land in the top ten this year in the North Box office America. The next role is the The Mad Magician (1954), the movie The Fly (1958) and its sequel Return of the Fly (1959).
That same year, he starred in a pair of thrillers favored by director William Castle: The House at Haunted Hill (1959) as an eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and The Tingler as Dr. Warren Chapin, who invented the titular creature. He appeared in the Three Skeleton Key radio drama, the story of a beacon island surrounded by rodent troops. He first did work in 1950 at Escape and went back there in 1956 and 1958 for Suspense .
Outside of the horror world, Price played Baka (master builder) at The Ten Commandments in 1956. Around this time he also appeared on NBC's The Martha Raye Show . In the 1955-56 television season, he played three times on the anthology series of religious junctions, a study of priests of various denominations. In the episode "Cleanup" 1955, Price plays Reverend Robert Russell. In 1956, he served as Rabi Gershom Mendes Seixas in "The Rebel", and as Rev. Alfred W. Price in "God's Healing".
1960s
In the 1960s, Price achieved a number of successful low-budget films with Roger Corman and American International Pictures (AIP) beginning with House of Usher (1960), which generated over $ 2 million in box office. in the United States and led to the adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe from The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), the Tales of Terror (1962), The Comedy of Terror i> (1963), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia < ).
He starred in The Last Man on Earth (1964), the first adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. In 1968, Price described the witchhunter Matthew Hopkins on the Witchfinder General (released in the US as The Conqueror Worm). She starred in comedy movies, especially Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and its sequel Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966). In 1968 he played part of an eccentric artist in Darling of the Day music, across from Patricia Routledge.
Price often talks about his fun playing Egghead on Batman's television series . One of his co-stars, Yvonne Craig (Batgirl), says Price is his favorite villain in the series. In an anecdote often repeated from the Batman set, Price, after take ends, starts throwing eggs into the star of the series Adam West and Burt Ward, and when asked to stop, replied, "By full artillery? Impossible! ", causing an egg fights to explode on the sound stage. This incident is repeated in the back of the screen Back to Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt .
In 1960 he began his role as a guest on the Hollywood Squares television show, becoming semi-regular in the 1970s, including being one of the guest panelists in the late 1980s.
Price has made guest appearances on many TV shows over the decade, including Daniel Boone episode "Copperhead Izzy," F Troop , Get Smart , < i> The Man from UNCLE , and Sailing to the Seabed . In 1964, he gave a narration to Tombstone Historama in Tombstone, Arizona, which is still operating in 2016. He also starred as the host of the Australian TV series If The Walls Can Speak , in which is a short history of a the historical building (which should have been narrated by the building itself) was covered, and as the narrative voice of the building.
Later career
During the early 1970s, Price hosted and starred in the horror and mystery series of BBC Radio The Price of Fear . Price received a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario, on local CHCH television station. In addition to the opening and closing monologues, her role in the event is to recite poems about various characters of the show, sometimes wearing robes or other costumes.
She appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), the sequel Dr. Phibes Increased Again (1972), and Blood Theater (1973), in which he described one of a pair of serial killers. That same year, Price appeared as herself on Mooch Goes to Hollywood, a movie written by Jim Backus. Price was an admirer of Edgar Allan Poe's work and in 1975 visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia), where he took pictures with the popular crow in the museum.
The price recorded a dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with a reading by Basil Rathbone. In 1975, Price and his wife Coral Browne performed together in an international stage adaptation of ArdÃÆ'¨le played in the United States as well as in London at the Queen's Theater. During this process, Browne & amp; The price co-starred in the BBC Radio Nightly the Wolf drama first premiered in 1975.
The price greatly reduced the film's work from around 1975, as the horror itself declined, and improved the narrative and sound work, and advertised Milton Bradley's Shrunken Head Statue.
Voice-Over voice heard on Alice Cooper's first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare from 1975, and she appeared on Alice Cooper's special TV: The Nightmare . She starred for a year in the early 1970s on a syndicated daily radio program, Tales of the Unexplained . She made a guest appearance in the 1970 episode of Here's Lucy featuring her artistry and in the 1972 episode of ABC The Brady Bunch , where she plays a crazy archaeologist. In October 1976, Price appeared as the main guest in the episode of The Muppet Show.
In 1976, Price recorded a 45rpm single, Pickett's Bobby "Boris" cover, "The Monster Mash", placed his voice on a backing track set in London by two record producers Bob Newby and Ken Weston. It was released on both sides of the Atlantic later that year without much success.
In 1977, he began performing as Oscar Wilde in the one-man stage drama
In 1979, Price starred in his wife, Coral Browne, in the short-lived CBS TV series Time Express . In 1979, Price hosted an amusement park & ​​amp; special roller coaster television "America Screams", syndicated all over the world, riding a lot of their own roller coasters and telling their history. During 1979-1980, Price held a segment of "Mystery Night" from the radio series, Sears Radio Theater, renamed Mutual Radio Theater, initially broadcast on CBS Radio Network, moving to the System Mutual Broadcasting.
In 1982, Price provided the narrator in the movie Vincent, Tim Burton for six minutes about a boy who transformed from reality into a fantasy where he was Vincent Price.
In the same year, Price featured a scary monologue on Michael Jackson's album title song Thriller . The longer version of rap, sans music, along with some conversations can be heard on Jackson 2001 remastered from the album Thriller .
Part of the extended version can be heard on the album Thriller 25 , released in 2008. Price appears as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in the 1982 television production of Gilbert & Sullivan Ruddigore (with Keith Michell as Robin Oakapple). In 1983, Price plays Sinister Man in the British spoof horror movie Bloodbath in the House of Death. He appeared in the House of the Long Shadows, who worked with him with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and John Carradine. Although Price has worked with each actor at least once in the past few decades, this is the first time all work together. One of his last major roles, and one of his favorites, was the voice of Professor Ratigan at Walt Disney Pictures' The Great Mouse Detective in 1986.
From 1981-89, Price hosted the PBS television series Mystery! In 1985, he gave the voice talent in the Hanna-Barbera series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo as mysterious "Vincent Van Ghoul", who helped Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and gang in recapturing 13 evil demons. A lifelong rollercoaster fan, Price narrated 30 minutes documentary 1987 about rollercoaster history and amusement parks including Coney Island. During this time (1985-1989), he appeared in a horror-themed ad for Tilex bathroom cleaners.
In 1984, Price appeared in the Shelley Duvall Faerie Tale Theater series as Mirror in "Snow White and Seven Dwarfs", and the narrator for "The Boy Who Left Home to Know About Fever". In 1987, he starred with Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, and Ann Sothern in The Whales of August, a story about two sisters living in Maine who face the end of their days. His performance at The Whales of August won his sole career nomination nomination: the Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
In 1989, Price was sworn into St. Louis Walk of Fame. The last important work of the film is as an inventor at Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands (1990).
In 1992, Price recorded a narrative for Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor, but the narrative was immediately removed and replaced with a complete narrative in French by GÃÆ' Â © rard Chevalier. But they had left Vincent Price's famous laughter as a tribute to Price. But by 2018, it was announced that during the renovation, they will add back the Price narration to the tourist attraction.
Art
Price, who studied Art History (along with English) at Yale University, is a well-known art lover and collector. He is a commissioner of the Arts and Crafts Council of India.
In 1957, impressed by the spirit of the students and the people's need for the opportunity to experience original artwork, Vincent and Mary Grant Price donated 90 pieces from their personal collection and a large sum of money to build the Vincent Price Art Museum. at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, which is the first "teaching art collection" owned by a college in the United States. They eventually donated about 2,000 pieces; the collection contains more than 9,000 pieces and is worth more than $ 5 million.
Price also spent time working as an art consultant for Sears-Roebuck: From 1962 to 1971, Sears offered "The Collections of Vincent's Feast of Pure Art", selling about 50,000 art prints to the general public. Works that Price selected or assigned to the collection include works by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador DalÃÆ'. Public access to art is important to Price, who, according to his daughter Victoria, sees Sears's agreement as "an opportunity to practice his populist beliefs, to bring art to the American public."
The price collects its own art collection, and in 2008, a painting purchased for $ 25 by a pair from Dallas, Texas was identified as part of Price's collection. Painted by Australian modernist, Grace Cossington Smith, was given a modern assessment of AU $ 45,000.
Cooking
Price is a famous gourmet cook and she writes several cookbooks with her second wife, Mary. This includes:
- A Treasury of Great Recipes (1965)
- Mary and Vincent Price present National Treasury of Cookery (1967)
- Mary and Vincent Price Come to Kitchen Cook Book: A Collector's Treasury of Great Recipes America (1969)
- Cooking-Smart Price with Vincent Price (1971)
Mary and Vincent Price present the National Treasury of Cookery is a five-volume series, packaged in a box set and published by Heirloom Publishing Company. These five books were combined into a book two years later and published as Mary and Vincent Price's Come into the Kitchen Cook Book: A Collector's Treasury of Great Recipes America. Most Cookbook Prices were kept in print throughout the 1970s. After not printing for decades, two of their books are reprinted; A Treasury of Great Recipes (in August 2015 by Calla Editions) and Mary and Vincent Price's Coming to the Kitchen Cook Book (in November 2016 by Calla Editions), both featuring new words introduction by their daughter, Victoria Price. Cooking Price-Wise with Vincent Price is scheduled for reprint by Dover Publishing in October 2017 under the updated title Cooking Price-Wise - The Original Foodie .
In 1971, Price hosted his own cooking program on English TV, called Cooking Price-Wise , aired on Thames Television in April and May 1971. This event gave his name to Cook's fourth and final cookbook of the year that.. Price promotes his cookbook on many talk shows, one of the most famous examples being the November 21, 1975 The Tonight Show broadcast with Johnny Carson, when he demonstrated how to boil fish in a dishwasher.
The price recorded a number of audio cooking tutorials entitled International Cooking Course . It's titled Bounty of Paradise , Classic Spanish Cuisine < Cuisina Italiana , Delicacy of Pantry Sultan , Restaurants in Casbah , Dining at Versailles , Exotic Delights from the Far East , Food of the Gods , Foods from the Austro Empire -Hungarian , La Cocina Mejicana , Bard Board and The Wok . In addition, he recorded an audio wine course entitled Wine Is Elegance . This audio recording was released on 33 1/3 LP by Nelson Industries in 1977 and also packaged in a box of twelve tapes titled Beverly Hills Cookbook - Cookbook of the Rich and Famous, Your Host Mr. Vincent Price
In August 1982 he hosted the A Taste of China which aired on Thames Television in the UK for five episodes. He also prepared a fish recipe at Wolfgang Puck's Cooking with Wolfgang Puck VHS, released in October 1987 by Warner Home Video.
Personal life
Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 with former actress Edith Barrett; they had one son, Vincent Barrett Price, and divorced in 1948. A year later, in 1949, Price married Mary Grant, and they had a daughter, Victoria Price, on April 27, 1962. He was named Victoria after the first major success Price. in the Victoria Victoria drama . The marriage lasted until 1973. Price's last marriage was in 1974 to Australian actress Coral Browne, who appeared with her (as one of her victims) at the Blood Theater (1973). The marriage lasted until Browne's death in 1991.
One example of his outspoken political action came when he ended the old radio episode of The Saint , titled "The Murder Writer," which was broadcast on NBC Radio on July 30, 1950. He denounced racial and religious prejudices as poisonous form and claim America should actively fight against it because racial and religious prejudices within the United States encourage support for the nation's enemies.
The price was then raised to the Council of Arts and Crafts of India under the Government of Dwight D. Eisenhower; he called the appointment "somewhat surprising, because I am a Democrat."
Price supported his daughter, who came out as a lesbian, and criticized Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign in the 1970s. He is a member of the PFLAG honorary council and among the first celebrities to appear in public service announcements that discuss AIDS with the public.
Her daughter said that she was "as close as I can to that my father has a physical relationship with a man."
Death
The price suffers from emphysema, the result of being a lifelong smoker, and Parkinson's disease; the symptoms were so severe during the filming of Edward Scissorhands that it was necessary to cut the shooting schedule short.
Her illness also contributes to her retirement from Mystery! He died of lung cancer on October 25, 1993, at UCLA Medical Center at the age of 82 years.
His body was cremated and his ashes scattered at Point Dume in Malibu, California.
Legacy
The A & amp; E Network aired the Biography episode the night after Price's death, highlighting his horror film career, but due to his failure to remove the copyright, the show never aired again. Four years later, A & amp; E produced the latest episode, an event titled Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain, which was aired on October 12, 1997. The script was written by Lucy Chase Williams, author of The Vincent Price Complete Movie . In early 1991, Tim Burton developed a personal documentary entitled "Conversations with Vincent," where the interview with Price was shot at Vincent's Price Gallery, but the project was never finished and finally shelved.
Price is a Member of the Honorary Board, and a strong supporter until his death, from the Witch-Dungeon Classic Movie Museum located in Bristol, Connecticut. The museum features life-size replicas of characters from several Price films, including The Fly, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and The Masque of the Red Death. A black box theater at Price alma mater, Mary Institute and St. Louis State School, named after him.
Director Tim Burton directed a short-motion film in appreciation of Vincent Price, called Vincent, of a boy named Vincent Malloy who is obsessed with the grim and dreadful. It is narrated by Price. "Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice" is a parody on Sesame Street . She was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons ("Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"). Price has his own Spit-Out doll, who always tries to be "evil" and lures people into his dreadful traps, only for his victims to point out all the obvious flaws. The Channel Episode 101 October 2005 Yacht Rock featured James Adomian comedian Vincent Price during Michael Jackson's "Thriller" recording.
Beginning in November 2005, featuring actor Bill Hader of the NBC comedy/variety show of Saturday Night Live sketches has played Price in recurrent sketches where Price rewards a special holiday filled with celebrities of the 1950s/60s.. Other cast members who played Price on SNL included Dan Aykroyd and Michael McKean (who played Price when he hosted episodes of season 10 and again when he was hired as a player for the 1994-95 season).
In 1999, an honest and detailed biography of the Price written by his daughter, Victoria, published by St. John. Martin's Press. At the end of May 2011, an event was organized by the St. Cinema organization. Louis to celebrate his 100th birthday. This includes public events with Victoria at the Missouri History Museum and exhibits of ephemeral and historic items in the gallery inside the Sheldon Concert Hall.
Single 2013 Deep Purple "Vincent Price" is dedicated to him. Price was a friend of the band and in 1975 he appeared in the live version of Roger Glover from "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast" as a narrator.
Movieography
Radio appearance
Books
- Price, Vincent, Like What I Know - Visual Autobiography . Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1959.
- Price, Vincent, Book of Joe; about a dog and her husband. Doubleday, 1961; OCLC 1292943
- Price, Vincent and Price, Mary Grant, Great Recipes Treasury . Bernard Geis Associates, 1965; ISBN: 1121111130.
- Price, Vincent, and Price, Mary Grant, Mary and Vincent Price Presenting the National Treasury of Cookery . Heirloom Publishing Company, 1967; OCLC 1450485
- Price, Vincent, and Price, Mary Grant, Come Into Kitchen Cookbooks: Great American Cooking Recipes Collector . Stravon Educational Press, 1969; ISBN: 0873960203
- Price, Vincent, Cooking Price with Vincent Price . Corgi Children's, 1971; ISBN: 0552086657
- Price, Vincent, The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art . Waukesha, Wisconsin: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1972; ISBN: 978-08-7294031-4.
- Price, Vincent, Vincent Price: The Movie, Its Screening, Its Life . Doubleday & amp; Co., 1978; ISBN: 0385115946
- Price, Vincent, Public Opinion . Sage Publications, 1992; ISBN: 9781452246154
References
External links
- Vincent's Authorized Website
- Vincent's price at AllMovie
- Vincent's price on Broadway Internet Database
- Vincent Price at IMDb
- Vincent's Price in the TCM Film Database
- Vincent Pricing Gallery
- St. Louis Walk of Fame
- Catalog of Vincent Price Papers
- Vincent's Price in Virtual History
- Cooking with Vincent, A Treasury of Great Recipes
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