Biography: life and films
Vincent Price was an American actor whose birth name was Vincent Leonard Price, Jr.. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on 27th May 1911 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 25th October 1993, aged 82.His best films as an actor include Otto Preminger's crime-thriller Laura (1944), Roger Corman's thriller Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General (1968), David Winters's Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) and Tony Klinger's The Butterfly Ball (1976).
Vincent Price appeared in 107 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Roger Corman (8 films), John M. Stahl (3), Gordon Hessler (3), William Castle (2), Rowland V. Lee (2), Robert Fuest (2), Otto Preminger (2), Mario Bava (2), Marc Paul Chinoy (2), Joe May (2), Jacques Tourneur (2), Henry King (2), Douglas Hickox (2), Charles Lamont (2) and (2).
His most frequent genres include: Horror (40 films), drama (38), Thriller (30), comedy (25), romance (9), Fantasy (8), Documentary (8), history (7), crime-thriller (7), Animation (5), comedy-drama (4), Western (4), Biography (4), comedy-thriller (2) and comedy-romance (2).
Our average rating for Vincent Price over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Service de Luxe (1938) [a]
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) [a]
Tower of London (1939) [a]
Brigham Young (1940) [a]
Green Hell (1940) [a]
The House of the Seven Gables (1940) [a]
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) [a]
Hudson's Bay (1941) [a]
The Song of Bernadette (1943) [a]
Laura (1944) [a]
The Eve of St. Mark (1944) [a]
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) [a]
Wilson (1944) [a]
A Royal Scandal (1945) [a]
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) [a]
Shock (1946) [a]
Moss Rose (1947) [a]
The Long Night (1947) [a]
The Web (1947) [a]
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) [a]
Rogues' Regiment (1948) [a]
The Three Musketeers (1948) [a]
Up in Central Park (1948) [a]
Bagdad (1949) [a]
The Bribe (1949) [a]
Champagne for Caesar (1950) [a]
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950) [a]
The Baron of Arizona (1950) [a]
Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) [a]
Pictura (1951) [a]
The Las Vegas Story (1952) [a]
Dangerous Mission (1954) [a]
The Mad Magician (1954) [a]
Son of Sinbad (1955) [a]
Serenade (1956) [a]
The Ten Commandments (1956) [a]
While the City Sleeps (1956) [a]
The Story of Mankind (1957) [a]
The Fly (1958) [a]
House on Haunted Hill (1959) [a]
Return of the Fly (1959) [a]
The Bat (1959) [a]
The Big Circus (1959) [a]
The Tingler (1959) [a]
Gordon, il pirata nero (1961) [a]
Master of the World (1961) [a]
Nefertiti, regina del Nilo (1961) [a]
Pit and the Pendulum (1961) [a]
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) [a]
Convicts 4 (1962) [a]
Tales of Terror (1962) [a]
Tower of London (1962) [a]
The Haunted Palace (1963) [a]
The Raven (1963) [a]
I tabù (1964) [a]
The Comedy of Terrors (1964) [a]
The Last Man on Earth (1964) [a]
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) [a]
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) [a]
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) [a]
The City Under the Sea (1965) [a]
Le Spie vengono dal semifreddo (1966) [a]
You're a Big Boy Now (1966) [a]
La Casa de las mil muñecas (1967) [a]
More Dead Than Alive (1968) [a]
Witchfinder General (1968) [a]
The Trouble with Girls (1969) [a]
Cry of the Banshee (1970) [a]
Scream and Scream Again (1970) [a]
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) [a]
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1972) [a]
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) [a]
The Aries Computer (1972) [a]
Madhouse (1974) [a]
Percy's Progress (1974) [a]
The Devil's Triangle (1974) [a]
Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) [a]
Journey Into Fear (1975) [a]
The Butterfly Ball (1976) [a]
Scavenger Hunt (1979) [a]
Days of Fury (1980) [a]
I Go Pogo (1980) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
House of the Long Shadows (1983) [a]
Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) [a]
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) [a]
The Offspring (1987) [a]
The Whales of August (1987) [a]
Dead Heat (1988) [a]
Catchfire (1990) [a]
Edward Scissorhands (1990) [a]
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) [a]
The Princess and the Cobbler (1993) [a]
The Black Dahlia Haunting (2012) [a]
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