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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was an American actor best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television. He was born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri and has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
Birth Name
Vincent Leonard Price Jr.
Born
Saturday, 27 May 1911
Died
Monday, 25 October 1993
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Thriller 40 | Self | 2023 |
Wolfgang | Self | 2021 |
The Fabulous Allan Carr | Self | 2018 |
The Green Fog | Gilbert De Quincey | 2018 |
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The American International Pictures Story | Self | 2015 |
Kings of Cult | (archive footage) | 2015 |
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Lionel Grisbane | 2014 |
Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks | Eramus / Dr. Anton Phibes | 2014 |
Who's Doing the Dishes? | Self | 2014 |
Super Duper Alice Cooper | Self | 2014 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Thriller 40 | Self | 2023 |
Wolfgang | Self | 2021 |
The Fabulous Allan Carr | Self | 2018 |
The Green Fog | Gilbert De Quincey | 2018 |
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The American International Pictures Story | Self | 2015 |
Kings of Cult | (archive footage) | 2015 |
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | Lionel Grisbane | 2014 |
Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks | Eramus / Dr. Anton Phibes | 2014 |
Who's Doing the Dishes? | Self | 2014 |
Super Duper Alice Cooper | Self | 2014 |
Hamlet A.D.D. | Bob | 2014 |
I Am Divine | Self | 2013 |
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel | Various Roles / Various Roles (archive footage) | 2011 |
The Clock | Self | 2010 |
A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss | Self / Prince Prospero / Matthew Hopkins | 2010 |
Notes on the Port of St. Francis | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 2010 |
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story | Self | 2009 |
It Happened in Hollywood | Self - Host | 2009 |
Board James | Himself / Self | 2009 |
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | The Narrator / The Invisible Man / Prof. Henry Jarrod / Prince Prospero / Charles Dexter Ward / Joseph Curwen / Roderick Usher / Dr. Erasmus Craven / Locke / Fortunato Luchresi / Ernest Valdemar / Nicholas Medina / Verden Fell / François Delambre / Dr. Warren Chapin / Dr. Anton Phibes | 2007 |
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein | The Narrator | 2006 |
The Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills | Himself (voice) / Self | 2006 |
Once Upon a Halloween | Professor Ratigan | 2005 |
Video on Trial | Voice of The Rap | 2005 |
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | Self | 2005 |
Strictly Come Dancing | Self | 2004 |
Pulp Cinema | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 2001 |
Red Skelton: Bloopers, Blunders and Ad-Libs | Mr. Gilbert | 2001 |
Heroes of Horror | Various Roles (Archive Footage) / Self / Prof. Henry Jerrod / Francios Delambre / Dr. Warren Chapin / Dr. Anton Phibes / Edward Lionheart / Propero | 2001 |
E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1997 |
Michael Jackson: HIStory on Film - Volume II | Rap Performer (segment "Thriller") | 1997 |
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Actor 'The Fly' | 1997 |
100 Years of Horror | Self / Self - Star, 'House of Wax' | 1996 |
A Century of Science Fiction | Self | 1996 |
100 Years of Horror: Witchcraft and Demons | Self | 1996 |
Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory | Rap Performer (segment "Thriller") | 1995 |
Masters of Fantasy | Himself / Self | 1994 |
Vincent Price: My Life and Crimes | Himself / Self | 1994 |
The 66th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Memorial Tribute | 1994 |
A Visit with Vincent | Self | 1994 |
A Century of Cinema | Self | 1994 |
The Thief and the Cobbler | ZigZag / Zigzag the Grand Vizier (voice) | 1993 |
Visiting... with Huell Howser | Self | 1993 |
The Heart of Justice | Reggie Shaw | 1992 |
Perpetual Motion | Self - Presenter, Wally Byam Caravan Advert | 1992 |
Hooray for Horrorwood | Self | 1991 |
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self | 1991 |
The Horror Hall of Fame II | Self - Presenter | 1991 |
Edward Scissorhands | The Inventor | 1990 |
The Horror Hall of Fame | Self - Inductee | 1990 |
Tiny Toon Adventures | Narrator | 1990 |
Catchfire | Mr. Avoca / Lino Avoca | 1990 |
The 61st Annual Academy Awards | Self - Performer | 1989 |
Step Into the Third Dimension | Himself / Narrator / Self - Host - Narrator | 1989 |
Dead Heat | Arthur P. Loudermilk | 1988 |
Monsters & Maniacs | Self | 1988 |
Vincent Price: The Sinister Image | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1987 |
The Little Troll Prince | King Ulvik #1 | 1987 |
From a Whisper to a Scream | Julian White | 1987 |
The Whales of August | Mr. Maranov | 1987 |
Biography | Self / Mark Cardigan (clip from His King of Woman (1951)) | 1987 |
The Nativity | King Herod (voice) / King Herod | 1987 |
Sparky's Magic Piano | Henry | 1987 |
The Great Mouse Detective | Professor Ratigan (voice) / Professor Ratigan | 1986 |
Star's Table | Self | 1986 |
American Masters | Self | 1986 |
Blacke's Magic | Emeric Valdemar | 1986 |
Escapes | The Mailman / Host (Hall of Faces) | 1986 |
Horrible Horror | Frederick Loren, In clips from the 'House on Haunted Hill' trailer / Frederick Loren in 'House on Haunted Hill' | 1986 |
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible | King Herod | 1985 |
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo | Vincent VanGhoul / Vincent Van Ghoul (voice) | 1985 |
Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985 |
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz | Vincent Price | 1985 |
Aspel & Company | Self | 1984 |
Bloodbath at the House of Death | Sinister Man | 1984 |
The Making of 'Thriller' | Self - 'Rap' Performer | 1983 |
Michael Jackson's Thriller | Narrator (voice) | 1983 |
Hansel and Gretel | Host | 1983 |
House of the Long Shadows | Lionel Grisbane | 1983 |
Life's Most Embarrassing Moments | Self | 1983 |
Fun with Mr. Future | Mad Scientist | 1982 |
Vincent | Narrator | 1982 |
Faerie Tale Theatre | Narrator / The Magic Mirror | 1982 |
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Rice / (in "The Bribe") (archive footage) | 1982 |
Wogan | Himself | 1982 |
The 54th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Presenter | 1982 |
An Evening at the Improv | Self - Host | 1982 |
Vincent Price's Dracula | Himself - Host / Narrator / Self - Host | 1982 |
Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook | Carlyle Wentworth | 1981 |
Entertainment Tonight | Self - Co-Host | 1981 |
Bustin' Loose | Alcoholic Mechanic | 1981 |
The Monster Club | Eramus / Eramus (Segment "The Monster Club") | 1981 |
Language of the Flowers | Narrator | 1981 |
I Go Pogo | Deacon Mushrat / Deacon Mushrat (voice) | 1980 |
Days of Fury | Host / Narrator | 1980 |
Masterpiece Mystery | Himself - Host / Self - Host | 1980 |
Scavenger Hunt | Milton Parker | 1979 |
CBS Library | Self - Host | 1979 |
Trapper John, M.D. | Baxter Garwood | 1979 |
The Muppets Go Hollywood | Self | 1979 |
Time Express | Jason Winters | 1979 |
The Strange Case of Alice Cooper | Nurse Rozetta Introduction / Narrator | 1979 |
The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 |
Blankety Blank | Himself | 1978 |
Ringo | Dr. Nancy | 1978 |
America 2-Night | Self - Guest | 1978 |
The Jim Nabors Show | Self | 1978 |
The Love Boat | Wendell Mordan - 'The Amazing Alonzo' | 1977 |
The Butterfly Ball | The Narrator / Narrator | 1977 |
ABC Weekend Specials | Self - Intruduction (2nd installment) (1985) | 1977 |
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour | Vincent Price | 1976 |
The Captain and Tennille | Self | 1976 |
The Muppet Show | Self - Special Guest Star | 1976 |
Family Feud | Himself - Celebrity Contestant | 1976 |
The Bionic Woman | Manfred / Cyrus Carstairs | 1976 |
Anyone for Tennyson? The Master Poets Collection | Himself / Self - Narrator | 1976 |
Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (Concert Feature) | Spider Voice / Spider (voice) | 1975 |
Donny and Marie | The Creature of Frankenstein | 1975 |
Journey Into Fear | Dervos | 1975 |
Celebrity Squares | Self | 1975 |
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare | The Spirit of the Nightmare | 1975 |
Ellery Queen | Director Michael Raynor | 1975 |
Dinah! | Self / Self - Guest | 1974 |
It's Not the Size That Counts | Stavos Mammonian | 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
Madhouse | Paul Toombes | 1974 |
The Horror Hall of Fame | Himself / Self | 1974 |
Mean Streets | Verden Fell | 1973 |
Baffle | Self | 1973 |
The Devil's Triangle | Narrator | 1973 |
Theater of Blood | Edward Lionheart | 1973 |
The Snoop Sisters | Michael Bastion | 1972 |
In Concert | Self | 1972 |
The Midnight Special | Himself | 1972 |
Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Dr. Anton Phibes | 1972 |
I've Got a Secret | Self - Guest Star | 1972 |
The Aries Computer | 1972 | |
Mooch | Vincent Price | 1971 |
What's a Nice Girl Like You...? | William Spevin | 1971 |
Film '72 | Self | 1971 |
The Jimmy Stewart Show | Vincent Price | 1971 |
Columbo | David Lang | 1971 |
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour | Self | 1971 |
Make Your Own Kind of Music! | Self | 1971 |
Parkinson | Self | 1971 |
The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Anton Phibes | 1971 |
Here Comes Peter Cottontail | January Q. Irontail / Irontail (voice) | 1971 |
Stand Up and Cheer | Self | 1971 |
The Pet Set | Self | 1971 |
Cucumber Castle | Wicked Count Voxville | 1970 |
Holiday Startime Special | Drunk after Christmas Day | 1970 |
Cry of the Banshee | Lord Edward Whitman | 1970 |
The Virginia Graham Show | Self | 1970 |
Scream and Scream Again | Dr. Browning | 1970 |
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe | Narrator | 1970 |
Night Gallery | Professor (segment "Class of '99") / John Carnby | 1969 |
Love, American Style | (segment "Love and the Haunted House") | 1969 |
The Brady Bunch | Professor Hubert Whitehead | 1969 |
Name Droppers | Self | 1969 |
The David Frost Show | Self | 1969 |
The Trouble with Girls | Mr. Morality | 1969 |
The Oblong Box | Julian / Sir Julian Markham | 1969 |
Della | Self | 1969 |
More Dead Than Alive | Dan Ruffalo | 1969 |
The Heart of Variety | Self | 1969 |
The Good Guys | Mr. Middleton | 1968 |
Mod Squad | John Wells / Wentworth | 1968 |
Here's Lucy | Vincent Price | 1968 |
Frost on Sunday | Self - Musician | 1968 |
Spirits of the Dead | Narrator / Narrator (English version) (voice) | 1968 |
Witchfinder General | Matthew Hopkins | 1968 |
The Movie Orgy | Self (archival footage) | 1968 |
House of 1,000 Dolls | Felix Manderville | 1967 |
The Jackals | Oupa Decker | 1967 |
The Carol Burnett Show | Self - Guest / Various Characters / Guest - Various Characters / Self | 1967 |
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest Performer | 1967 |
Eye on Art | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 1967 |
The Joey Bishop Show | Self | 1967 |
The Milton Berle Show | Self | 1966 |
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs | General Willis / Dr. Goldfoot | 1966 |
Your Choice for the Film Awards | Self - Co-Host | 1966 |
Batman | Egghead | 1966 |
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Dr. Goldfoot | 1965 |
BBC Play of the Month | Dr. Austin Sloper | 1965 |
Get Smart | Jarvis Pym | 1965 |
The Dean Martin Show | Self - Guest | 1965 |
F Troop | Count Sfoza | 1965 |
City in the Sea | The Captain, Sir Hugh / Sir Hugh | 1965 |
The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) | Self - Panelist / Self - Center Square | 1965 |
The Tomb of Ligeia | Verden Fell | 1964 |
Daniel Boone | Dr. Thaddeus Morton | 1964 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Victor Marton | 1964 |
Chagall | Narrator / Narrator (English version) | 1964 |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Professor Multiple | 1964 |
The Masque of the Red Death | Prince Prospero | 1964 |
The Last Man on Earth | Dr. Robert Morgan | 1964 |
Last Man on Earth, The | Dr. Robert Morgan | 1964 |
The Comedy of Terrors | Waldo Trumbull | 1964 |
Taboos of the World | Narrator / Narrator (English edit) | 1963 |
Twice-Told Tales | Gerald Pyncheon / Alex Medbourne / Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini | 1963 |
Hollywood and the Stars | Waldo Trumbull | 1963 |
The Danny Kaye Show | The Dentist / The Prime Minister / Gangster / Dr. Frankenstein / Art Collector and Critic / The snotty Maitre'd | 1963 |
The Haunted Palace | Joseph Curwen / Charles Dexter Ward | 1963 |
Beach Party | Big Daddy | 1963 |
You Don't Say | Self / Himself | 1963 |
Diary of a Madman | Magistrate Simon Cordier / Simon Cordier | 1963 |
The Raven | Dr. Erasmus Craven | 1963 |
Tower of London | Richard of Gloucester | 1962 |
Exploring | Narrator | 1962 |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself / Himself - Guest / Himself - Guest Host | 1962 |
The Merv Griffin Show | Himself | 1962 |
Convicts 4 | Carl Carmer | 1962 |
Tales of Terror | Ernest Valdemar / Locke / Fortunato Luchresi / Fortunato / Valdemar / Narrator | 1962 |
Confessions of an Opium Eater | Gilbert De Quincey | 1962 |
The Tonight Show | Self - Actor / Self | 1962 |
Rage of the Buccaneers | Romero | 1961 |
The Mike Douglas Show | Himself - Co-Host / Himself / Himself - Actor | 1961 |
Queen of the Nile | Benakon | 1961 |
The Pit and the Pendulum | Sebastian Medina / Nicholas Medina | 1961 |
Naked Terror | Narrator | 1961 |
Master of the World | Robur / Captain Robur | 1961 |
Tell It to Groucho | Self | 1961 |
Famous Ghost Stories | Narrator | 1961 |
Family Classics: The Three Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1960 |
The Best of the Post | Roger Bauer | 1960 |
Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
The Fall of the House of Usher | Roderick Usher | 1960 |
Fall Of The House Of Usher, The | Roderick Usher | 1960 |
The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1960) | Roderick Usher | 1960 |
Moment of Fear | Dr. Marius Lindsay | 1960 |
House of Usher | Roderick Usher | 1960 |
The Chevy Mystery Show | Host / Self - Host / Michael Seemes / Self - Guest Host | 1960 |
Startime | Self / Sir Bors | 1959 |
Adventures in Paradise | Armand Duchette | 1959 |
Riverboat | Otto Justin | 1959 |
The Bat | Dr. Malcolm Wells | 1959 |
The Tingler | Dr. Warren Chapin | 1959 |
Return of the Fly | Francois Delambre | 1959 |
The Big Circus | Hans Hagenfeld | 1959 |
About Faces | Self | 1959 |
House on Haunted Hill | Frederick Loren | 1959 |
The Fly | François Delambre | 1958 |
E.S.P. | Self - Host / Himself - Host | 1958 |
The Story of Mankind | Mr. Scratch - The Devil / Mr. Scratch / The Devil | 1957 |
Have Gun - Will Travel | Charles Matthews / Othello | 1957 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar | Himself / Self | 1957 |
The Walter Winchell Show | Self | 1956 |
The Ten Commandments | Baka | 1956 |
Playhouse 90 | Alex / Clark Simmons / Jesse White / Self - Host | 1956 |
Washington Square | Self | 1956 |
The Vagabond King | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1956 |
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | Self | 1956 |
The Rosemary Clooney Show | Self - Musician | 1956 |
While the City Sleeps | Walter Kyne | 1956 |
Serenade | Charles Winthrop | 1956 |
Camera Three | Self | 1956 |
Matinee Theatre | Paul Mallen | 1955 |
The Alcoa Hour | Alvanley | 1955 |
Crossroads | Rabbi Gershom Seixas / Rev. Robert Russell / Reverend Alfred W. Price | 1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Charles Courtney | 1955 |
Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre | Howard Keith Howard | 1955 |
This Is Your Life | Self - Filmed tribute / Self | 1955 |
Son of Sinbad | Omar / Omar Khayyam | 1955 |
Science Fiction Theatre | Police Sgt. Gary Williams / Dr. Philip Redmond | 1955 |
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater | Vincent Price / Rodney van Such | 1955 |
TV Reader's Digest | Rev. John Hayes | 1955 |
Climax! | Gideon Rone / Dr. Farrin / Casey Lodge | 1954 |
The George Gobel Show | The Doctor / Himself | 1954 |
Shower of Stars | Self / Self - Surpise Visitor / Quiz Show Candidate Vincent Price / Mr. Fitzgerald in Courtroom Skit | 1954 |
Studio 57 | Dr. Marius Lindsay | 1954 |
Casanova's Big Night | Casanova | 1954 |
The Mad Magician | Gallico the Great / Don Gallico | 1954 |
Dangerous Mission | Paul Adams | 1954 |
The Martha Raye Show | Self | 1954 |
The United States Steel Hour | 1953 | |
Person to Person | Self | 1953 |
The Philip Morris Playhouse | Dr. Martinson | 1953 |
House of Wax | Prof. Henry Jarrod | 1953 |
The Plymouth Playhouse | Cooper Fielding | 1953 |
General Electric Theater | Death / Philosophical Peddler Beauregard Archibald / Vince Meagher | 1953 |
This Is Your Life | Self - actor / art expert / member of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the Department of the Interior | 1952 |
The Las Vegas Story | Lloyd Rollins | 1952 |
Chesterfield Presents | Count Victor Lustig | 1952 |
His Kind of Woman | Mark Cardigan | 1951 |
Schlitz Playhouse | An Artist / Baron Laval aka Aristide Pujol / Narrator / Wendell Bensen / Swede | 1951 |
The Red Skelton Hour | Warren Glenhall / Vincent Price / Thomas - Cavendish Butler / Sigmund Fraud / Self - Musician / Professor Super-Dope / Muggsy / Mr. Gould / Maxwell the Magician / Mad Scientist / Himself / Gilbert / Fashion Designer Monsieur Pierre / Dr. Flygrabber / Dr. Crookshank (Fagan Parody) / Clem's Greedy Relative / Claude Casserole / Clarence Narrow - Deadeye's Atty Brother / Carlyle Wentworth / Black Bart / Beige Bart | 1951 |
Gruen Guild Theater | Rodney Ames | 1951 |
Pictura | Narrator: Hieronymous Bosch episode (voice) / Narrator: Hieronymous Bosch episode | 1951 |
Adventures of Captain Fabian | George Brissac | 1951 |
The Jack Benny Program | Panelist Vincent Price / Self / Vincent Price | 1950 |
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | Duke de Chartles | 1950 |
Lux Video Theatre | Joseph Bentley / Herbert / Dr. Austin Sloper / Christoff | 1950 |
Life with Linkletter | Self | 1950 |
The New Truth and Consequences | Himself | 1950 |
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek | Tracy Holland | 1950 |
Champagne for Caesar | Burnbridge Waters | 1950 |
The Baron of Arizona | James Addison Reavis 'The Baron' / James Addison Reavis | 1950 |
The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter | Self | 1950 |
What's My Line? | Himself - Panelist / Himself - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
Robert Montgomery Presents | Peter Hammond | 1950 |
The Christmas Carol | Narrator | 1949 |
Bagdad | Pasha Ali Nadim | 1949 |
Fireside Theatre | (unconfirmed) | 1949 |
The Bribe | Carwood | 1949 |
The Three Musketeers | Richelieu | 1948 |
Rogues' Regiment | Mark Van Ratten | 1948 |
The Ed Sullivan Show | Self / Self - Cameo / Self - Audience Bow | 1948 |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | The Invisible Man / The Invisible Man (voice) | 1948 |
The Milton Berle Show | Self | 1948 |
Up in Central Park | Boss Tweed / William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed | 1948 |
Forever Amber | Lord Harry Almsbury | 1947 |
Moss Rose | Police Inspector R. Clinner / Inspector Clinner | 1947 |
The Long Night | Maximilian the Great | 1947 |
The Web | Andrew Colby | 1947 |
Dragonwyck | Nicholas Van Ryn | 1946 |
Shock | Dr. Richard Cross | 1946 |
Leave Her to Heaven | Russell Quinton | 1945 |
A Royal Scandal | Marquis de Fleury | 1945 |
The Keys of the Kingdom | Angus Mealey | 1944 |
Laura | Shelby Carpenter | 1944 |
Wilson | William Gibbs McAdoo / William G. McAdoo | 1944 |
The Eve of St. Mark | Pvt. Francis Marion / Francis Marion | 1944 |
The Song of Bernadette | Prosecutor Vital Dutour | 1943 |
Hudson's Bay | King Charles II | 1940 |
Brigham Young | Joseph Smith | 1940 |
The House of the Seven Gables | Clifford Pyncheon | 1940 |
Green Hell | David Richardson | 1940 |
The Invisible Man Returns | Geoffrey Radcliffe | 1940 |
Tower of London | Duke of Clarence | 1939 |
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Sir Walter Raleigh | 1939 |
Service de Luxe | Robert Wade | 1938 |