Editing Vincent Price (section)

=== Early film roles ===
[[File:Vincentprice.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Price as Mr. Manningham in the play ''[[Gaslight (play)|Angel Street]]'' (1941–1942)]]
Price started out in films as a [[character actor]]. He made his film debut in ''[[Service de Luxe]]'' (1938), and established himself in the film ''Laura'' (1944), opposite [[Gene Tierney]], directed by [[Otto Preminger]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-Price|title=Vincent Price profile|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=November 18, 2017}}</ref> He played [[Joseph Smith]] in the movie ''[[Brigham Young (film)|Brigham Young]]'' (1940) and [[William Gibbs McAdoo]] in ''[[Wilson (1944 film)|Wilson]]'' (1944), as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in ''[[The Song of Bernadette (film)|The Song of Bernadette]]'' (1943), and as a pretentious priest in ''[[The Keys of the Kingdom (film)|The Keys of the Kingdom]]'' (1944).

Price's first venture into the horror genre, for which he later became widely known, was in the [[Boris Karloff]] film ''[[Tower of London (1939 film)|Tower of London]]'' (1939). The following year, Price portrayed the title character in ''[[The Invisible Man Returns]]'' (a role he reprised in a voice-only cameo in the closing scene of the horror-comedy spoof ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'' released in 1948).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/66686/Abbott-And-Costello-Meet-Frankenstein/ |title= Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919122118/http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/movies/66686/Abbott-And-Costello-Meet-Frankenstein/ |archive-date=September 19, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He reunited with Tierney in ''[[Leave Her to Heaven]]'' (1945) and ''Dragonwyck'' (1946). He also had many villainous roles in [[film noir]] thrillers such as ''[[The Web (film)|The Web]]'' (1947), ''[[The Long Night (1947 film)|The Long Night]]'' (1947), ''[[Rogues' Regiment]]'' (1948), and ''[[The Bribe]]'' (1949), with [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]], [[Ava Gardner]], and [[Charles Laughton]].

Price's first starring role was as [[con man]] [[James Reavis]] in the biographical film ''[[The Baron of Arizona]]'' (1950). He did a comedic turn as the tycoon Burnbridge Waters, co-starring with [[Ronald Colman]] in ''[[Champagne for Caesar]]'' (also 1950), one of his favorite film roles.<ref name="biography.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/vincent-price-9446990|title=Vincent Price|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=March 7, 2014|archive-date=February 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224160317/http://www.biography.com/people/vincent-price-9446990|url-status=dead}}</ref>