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=== 1960s === In the 1960s, Price achieved a number of low-budget filmmaking successes with [[Roger Corman]]<ref name=PM>{{cite web|work=[[PopMatters]]|title=Vincent Price: The Poe Cycle|first=J.C.|last=Maçek III|date=October 23, 2013|url=http://www.popmatters.com/column/175968-the-vincent-price-collection/}}</ref> and [[American International Pictures]] (AIP) starting with the ''[[House of Usher (film)|House of Usher]]'' (1960), which earned over $2 million at the box office in the United States<ref>{{cite book|last=Egan, Thomas|first=Kate, Sarah|title=Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification|year=2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0230293694|page=112}}</ref> and led to the subsequent [[Edgar Allan Poe]] adaptations of ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)|The Pit and the Pendulum]]'' (1961), ''[[Tales of Terror]]'' (1962), ''[[The Comedy of Terrors]]'' (1963), ''[[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]]'' (1963), ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' (1964),<ref name=PM/> and ''[[The Tomb of Ligeia]]'' (1964).<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-Price|title=Vincent Price {{!}} American actor|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=January 18, 2018|language=en}}</ref> He starred in ''[[The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)|The Last Man on Earth]]'' (1964), the first adaptation of the [[Richard Matheson]] novel ''[[I Am Legend (novel)|I Am Legend]]'', and later starred as Felix Manderville in ''[[House of 1,000 Dolls]]'' (1967), which has been described as "quite possibly the sleaziest movie AIP ever made". A year later, Price portrayed witch hunter [[Matthew Hopkins]] in ''[[Witchfinder General (film)|Witchfinder General]]'', (US: ''The Conqueror Worm'', 1968) set during the [[English Civil War]].<ref>{{Screenonline title|id=507806|name=Witchfinder General}}</ref> Price also starred in comedy films such as ''[[Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine]]'' (1965) and its sequel ''[[Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs]]'' (1966). In 1968, he played the part of an eccentric artist in the musical ''[[Darling of the Day]]'', opposite [[Patricia Routledge]].<ref name="ibdb">{{IBDB name|56591}}</ref> In the 1960s, Price began his role as a guest on the television game show ''[[Hollywood Squares]]'', becoming a semi-regular in the 1970s, including being one of the guest panelists on the finale in 1980.<ref>{{cite episode|series=[[Hollywood Squares]]|title=Hollywood Squares on June 20, 1980| network=NBC|airdate=June 20, 1980}}</ref> Price made many guest-star appearances in television shows during the decade, including ''[[The Red Skelton Show]]'', ''[[Daniel Boone (1964 TV series)|Daniel Boone]]'', ''[[F Troop]]'', ''[[Get Smart]]'', ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'', and ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]''. He had a recurring role in the [[Batman (TV series)|''Batman'']] TV series as the villain [[Egghead (DC Comics)|Egghead]] from 1966 to 1967. In 1964, he provided the narration for the Tombstone Historama in [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]], Arizona, which was still in operation as of 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/15156|publisher=Roadside America|title=Historama|place=Tombstone, Arizona|access-date=July 24, 2016}}</ref> He also starred as the host of the Australian TV series ''If These Walls Could Speak'', in which a short history of an historical building (supposedly narrated by the building itself) was covered, and as the narrating voice of the building.
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