Born May 27, 1911 - St. Louis, Missouri
It's the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Price. He appeared in many movies and in several stage productions I really liked House of Wax ('53) and The Fly ('58). How do you remember him?
| Year | Film | Role | Director |
|---|
| 1938 | Service De Luxe | Robert Wade | Rowland V. Lee |
| 1939 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Sir Walter Raleigh | Michael Curtiz |
| Tower of London | Duke of Clarence | Rowland V. Lee |
| 1940 | The Invisible Man Returns | Geoffrey Radcliffe | Joe May |
| Green Hell | David Richardson | James Whale |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Clifford Pyncheon | Joe May |
| Brigham Young | Joseph Smith | Henry Hathaway |
| 1941 | Hudson's Bay | King Charles II | Irving Pichel |
| 1943 | The Song of Bernadette | Prosecutor Vital Dutour | Henry King |
| 1944 | The Eve of St. Mark | Pvt. Francis Marion | John M. Stahl |
| Wilson | William Gibbs McAdoo | Henry King |
| Laura | Shelby Carpenter | Otto Preminger |
| The Keys of the Kingdom | Angus Mealey | John M. Stahl |
| 1945 | A Royal Scandal | Marquis de Fleury | Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger |
| Leave Her to Heaven | Russell Quinton | John M. Stahl |
| 1946 | Shock | Dr. Richard Cross | Alfred L. Werker |
| Dragonwyck | Nicholas Van Ryn | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1947 | The Web | Andrew Colby | Michael Gordon |
| The Long Night | Maximilian | Anatole Litvak |
| Moss Rose | Police Inspector R. Clinner | Gregory Ratoff |
| 1948 | Up in Central Park | Boss Tweed | William A. Seiter |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | The Invisible Man (voice only) | Charles Barton |
| Rogues' Regiment | Mark Van Ratten | Robert Florey |
| The Three Musketeers | Richelieu | George Sidney |
| 1949 | The Bribe | Carwood | Robert Z. Leonard |
| Bagdad | Pasha Ali Nadim | Charles Lamont |
| 1950 | The Baron of Arizona | James Addison | Samuel Fuller |
| Champagne for Caesar | Burnbridge Waters | Richard Whorf |
| Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | Tracy Holland | Charles Lamont |
| 1951 | Adventures of Captain Fabian | George Brissac | William Marshall |
| His Kind of Woman | Mark Cardigan | John Farrow |
| 1952 | The Las Vegas Story | Lloyd Rollins | Robert Stevenson |
| 1953 | House of Wax | Professor Henry Jarrod | André De Toth |
| 1954 | Dangerous Mission | Paul Adams | Louis King |
| Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake | Colonel Edwin L. Drake | Arthur Pierson |
| Casanova's Big Night | Casanova (uncredited) | Norman Z. McLeod |
| The Mad Magician | Don Gallico | John Brahm |
| 1955 | Son of Sinbad | Omar Khayyam | Ted Tetzlaff |
| 1956 | Serenade | Charles Winthrop | Anthony Mann |
| While the City Sleeps | Walter Kyne | Fritz Lang |
| The Vagabond King | Narrator (uncredited) | Michael Curtiz |
| The Ten Commandments | Baka | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1957 | The Story of Mankind | The Devil | Irwin Allen |
| 1958 | The Fly | François Delambre | Kurt Neumann |
| 1959 | House on Haunted Hill | Frederick Loren | William Castle |
| The Big Circus | Hans Hagenfeld | Joseph M. Newman |
| The Tingler | Dr. Warren Chapin | William Castle |
| Return of the Fly | Francois Delambre | Edward Bernds |
| The Bat | Dr. Malcolm Wells | Crane Wilbur |
| 1960 | House of Usher | Roderick Usher | Roger Corman |
| 1961 | Master of the World | Robur | William Witney |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Nicholas Medina
Sebastian Medina | Roger Corman |
| Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile | Benakon | Fernando Cerchio |
| Rage of the Buccaneers | Romero | Mario Costa |
| 1962 | Confessions of an Opium Eater | Gilbert De Quincey | Albert Zugsmith |
| Tales of Terror | Locke
Fortunato Luchresi
M. Valdemar | Roger Corman |
| Convicts 4 | Carl Carmer | Millard Kaufman |
| Tower of London | Richard of Gloucester | Roger Corman |
| 1963 | The Raven | Dr. Erasmus Craven | Roger Corman |
| Diary of a Madman | Simon Cordier | Reginald Le Borg |
| Beach Party | Big Daddy | William Asher |
| The Haunted Palace | Joseph Curwen
Charles Dexter Ward | Roger Corman |
| Twice-Told Tales | Alex Medbourne
Dr. Rappaccini
Gerald Pyncheon | Sidney Salkow |
| 1964 | The Comedy of Terrors | Waldo Trumbull | Jacques Tourneur |
| The Last Man on Earth | Dr. Robert Morgan | Ubaldo Ragona |
| The Masque of the Red Death | Prince Prospero | Roger Corman |
| The Tomb of Ligeia | Verden Fell | Roger Corman |
| 1965 | War-Gods of the Deep | Sir Hugh, The Captain | Jacques Tourneur |
| Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Dr. Goldfoot | Norman Taurog |
| 1966 | Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs | Dr. Goldfoot
General Willis | Mario Bava |
| 1967 | The Jackals | Oupa Decker | Robert D. Webb |
| The House of 1,000 Dolls | Felix Manderville | Jeremy Summers |
| 1968 | Spirits of the Dead | Narrator
(English-language version) | Federico Fellini, Louis Malle,
Roger Vadim |
| Witchfinder General | Matthew Hopkins | Michael Reeves |
| More Dead Than Alive | Dan Ruffalo | Robert Sparr |
| 1969 | The Oblong Box | Sir Julian Markham | Gordon Hessler |
| The Trouble with Girls | Mr. Morality | Peter Tewksbury |
| 1970 | Scream and Scream Again | Dr. Browning | Gordon Hessler |
| Cry of the Banshee | Lord Edward Whitman | Gordon Hessler |
| Cucumber Castle | Wicked Count Voxville | Hugh Gladwish |
| 1971 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Anton Phibes | Robert Fuest |
| Here Comes Peter Cottontail | January Q. Irontail | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. |
| Mooch Goes to Hollywood | Himself | Richard Erdman |
| What's a Nice Girl Like You...? | Spevin | Jerry Paris |
| 1972 | An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe | Recitator | Kenneth Johnson |
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Dr. Anton Phibes | Robert Fuest |
| 1973 | Theatre of Blood | Edward Lionheart | Douglas Hickox |
| 1974 | Madhouse | Paul Toombes | Jim Clark |
| Percy's Progress | Stavos Mammonian | Ralph Thomas |
| 1975 | Journey Into Fear | Dervos | Daniel Mann |
| 1976 | The Butterfly Ball | Narrator | Tony Klinger |
| 1979 | Scavenger Hunt | Milton Parker | Michael Schultz |
| 1980 | The Monster Club | Eramus | Roy Ward Baker |
| Pogo for President: 'I Go Pogo' | The Deacon (voice only) | Marc Paul Chinoy |
| 1982 | Vincent | Narrator (voice only) | Tim Burton |
| 1983 | House of the Long Shadows | Lionel Grisbane | Pete Walker |
| Michael Jackson's Thriller | Narrator (voice only) | John Landis |
| 1984 | Bloodbath at the House of Death | Sinister Man | Ray Cameron |
| Terror in the Aisles | archival footage | Andrew J. Kuehn |
| 1985 | The Little Troll Prince | Ulvik #1 (voice only) | Ray Patterson |
| 1986 | The Great Mouse Detective | Professor Ratigan (voice only) | Burny Mattinson, Ron Clements,
David Michener, John Musker |
| Escapes | The Mailman | David Steensland |
| 1987 | Sparky's Magic Piano | Henry, Sparky's dad (voice only) | Lee Mishkin |
| The Nativity | King Herod (voice only) | Don Lusk |
| The Whales of August | Mr. Maranov | Lindsay Anderson |
| From a Whisper to a Scream | Julian White | Jeff Burr |
| 1988 | Dead Heat | Arthur P. Loudermilk | Mark Goldblatt |
| 1990 | Catchfire | Mr. Avoca | Dennis Hopper |
| Edward Scissorhands | The Inventor | Tim Burton |
| 1993 | The Thief and the Cobbler | Zig-Zag the Grand Vizier
(voice only, recorded 1967-1973) | Richard Williams |
I just did a long comment and then lost it. So this will have to do.
ReplyDeleteHe was trapped in one-dimensional roles that made him seem plastic onscreen, but he had such stage presence that you had to look at him anyway. And his style was not like any other actor. He was unique.
At the end of his career he seemed to get some respect for his acting abilities, hidden all those years during his madman roles. I remember people lauding his talents. It seemed he had a resurgence and I was glad for him because I couldn't help but feel fondly about him. Not sure why, but I always did.