Vincent price was an American actor best known for his role in several low-budget horror films that he made at the end of his film career. Price would learn some of his acting skills while attending Yale and studying art history and fine art. He begun his acting career on-stage in the 1930s but soon made the transition to film in the 1940s. Price’s first venture into the horror genre was in the 1939 Boris Karloff film Tower of London. The following year he portrayed the title character in the film The Invisible Man Returns. In the 1950s, he started to do more horror films and appeared in such recognizable films as ‘House of Wax’, ‘The Fly’, ‘Return of the Fly’ and ‘The House on Haunted Hill’. In the 1960s, Price starred in several low-budget box office hits for director Roger Corman. Some of these films included adaptations from Edgar Allen Poe novels such as ‘The Raven’, ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’, ‘Tales of Terror’, and ‘Last man on Earth’.
In addition, Price would have several recognizable television roles in the 1960s by playing the villain ‘EggHead’ in the Batman television series and appearing as himself on the television game show ‘Hollywood Squares’. At the end of his career, Price would appear in a Canadian Children’s television program called ‘The Hilarious House of Frightenstein’ and do several voice-overs for music albums from musicians such as Alice Cooper and Michael Jackson. Price’s last significant appearance in a film was as the inventor in the film ‘Edward Scissorhands’. In this month’s quote (in Halloween tradition), we give the audience Price’s thoughts on the concept of all things scary…
| “It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” – Vincent Price |
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