Editing Vincent Price

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{{Short description|American actor (1911–1993)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Vincent Price
| image              = Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Price in ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' (1959)
| birth_name         = Vincent Leonard Price Jr.
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1911|5|27}}
| birth_place        = [[St. Louis, Missouri]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1993|10|25|1911|5|27}}
| death_place        = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
| alma_mater         = {{ubl|[[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])|[[Courtauld Institute of Art]]}}
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actor|art historian|art collector|gourmet cook}}
| years_active       = 1935–1992
| spouse             = {{ubl|{{marriage|[[Edith Barrett]]|1938|1948|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Mary Grant Price|Mary Grant]]|1949|1973|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Coral Browne]]|1974|1991|end=d.}}}}
| children           = {{hlist|[[Vincent Barrett Price]]|[[Victoria Price]]}}
| awards             = [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]: {{avoid wrap|2 stars (TV, Film)}}
}}
'''Vincent Leonard Price Jr.''' (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor. He was known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying [[villain]]s. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], one for motion pictures and one for television.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/vincent-price|title=Vincent Price – Hollywood Star Walk|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en|access-date=August 4, 2017}}</ref>

Price's first film role was as a leading man in the 1938 comedy ''[[Service de Luxe]]''. He became a [[character actor]], appearing in ''[[The Song of Bernadette (film)|The Song of Bernadette]]'' (1943), ''[[Laura (1944 film)|Laura]]'' (1944), ''[[The Keys of the Kingdom (film)|The Keys of the Kingdom]]'' (1944), ''[[Leave Her to Heaven]]'' (1945), ''[[Dragonwyck (film)|Dragonwyck]]'' (1946), ''[[The Three Musketeers (1948 film)|The Three Musketeers]]'' (1948)  and ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' (1956). He established himself in the horror genre with roles in ''[[House of Wax (1953 film)|House of Wax]]'' (1953), ''[[The Fly (1958 film)|The Fly]]'' (1958), ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' (1959), ''[[Return of the Fly]]'' (1959), ''[[The Tingler]]'' (1959), ''[[The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)|The Last Man on Earth]]'' (1964), ''[[Witchfinder General (film)|Witchfinder General]]'' (1968), ''[[The Abominable Dr. Phibes]]'' (1971), and ''[[Theatre of Blood]]'' (1973). He collaborated with [[Roger Corman]] on a series of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] adaptations, including ''[[House of Usher (film)|House of Usher]]'' (1960), ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)|The Pit and the Pendulum]]'' (1961), ''[[The Haunted Palace]]'' (1963), and ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' (1964). Price appeared in the television series ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' as [[Egghead (DC Comics)|Egghead]].

Price voiced the villainous Professor Ratigan in [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]'s animated film ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' (1986), and appeared in the drama ''[[The Whales of August]]'' (1987), which earned him an [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male]] nomination. Price's final film was [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'' (1990). For his contributions to cinema, he received lifetime achievement or special tribute awards from [[Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films]]; [[Fantasporto]]; [[Bram Stoker Award]]s; and [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]].{{Citation needed |date=May 2021}} Price narrated animated films, radio dramas, and documentaries, and provided the narration in [[Michael Jackson]]'s song "[[Thriller (song)|Thriller]]". For his voice work in ''Great American Speeches'' (1959), Price was nominated for a [[Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album]].

Price was an art collector and arts consultant, with a degree in art history. He lectured and wrote books on art. The [[Vincent Price Art Museum]] at [[East Los Angeles College]] is named in his honor.<ref name=obit/> Price was a [[gourmet]] cook and cookbook author.<ref name="mentalfloss">{{cite journal|last=McCarthy|first=Erin|date=March 28, 2014|title=Vincent Price was a Gourmet Cook|journal=Mental Floss|issn=1543-4702|oclc=48211285|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/55836/vincent-price-was-gourmet-cook}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was born on May 27, 1911, in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price, president of the National Candy Company,<ref>[[National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis south and west of downtown|National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis]]. See no 65 on this list. Photo, 2013.[[:File:National Candy Co 2013 0928 NRHP in StLouis 31.jpg]]</ref> and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price.<ref name=obit/> His grandfather was Vincent Clarence Price, who invented "Dr. Price's Baking Powder", the first [[cream of tartar]]-based baking powder, and it secured the family's fortune.<ref name="Vincent">{{cite book|author=Victoria Price|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|location=New York|year=1999|isbn=978-0312267896|url=https://archive.org/details/vincentpricedaug00pric|url-access=registration}}</ref> Price was of Welsh<ref name="ReferenceA">Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by Victoria Price, published by 'Open Road Distribution', {{ISBN|1497649447}}, pp. 5, 10, 49</ref> and English descent and was a descendant, via his paternal grandmother, of [[Peregrine White]], the first child born in [[Massachusetts Bay Colony|colonial Massachusetts]], being born on the ''[[Mayflower]]'' while it was in [[Provincetown Harbor]] in [[Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_215460 |format=PDF |title=Oral history interview with Vincent Price, 1992 Aug. 6–14 |website=Archives of American Art, [[Smithsonian Institution]]}}</ref>

Price attended the [[St. Louis Country Day School]], and took a summer course<ref name=":0" /> at [[Milford Academy]] in [[Milford, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milfordacademy.org/history02.html|title=Milford Academy – History|first=Shawn|last=McDonald|website=Milfordacademy.org|access-date=November 19, 2017}}</ref> In 1933, he graduated with a degree in English and a minor in art history from [[Yale University]],<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Price|first=Victoria|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|year=1999|publisher=St. Martins Press|isbn=978-0312242732|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/44 44]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/44}}</ref> where he worked on the campus humor magazine ''[[The Yale Record]]''.<ref>Price, Victoria (1999). ''Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography''. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 40.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref> After teaching for a year, he entered [[The Courtauld Institute of Art]] in London, intending to study for a master's degree in fine arts.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

Instead he was drawn to the theater, first appearing on stage professionally in 1935 in the play ''[[Chicago (play)|Chicago]]'' at the [[Gate Theatre Studio|Gate Theatre]] in London.<ref name=Playbill_Victoria_Regina/> Next he introduced the role of [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] in [[Laurence Housman]]'s play ''[[Victoria Regina (play)|Victoria Regina]]'', also at the Gate Theatre in 1935.<ref name=Playbill_Victoria_Regina/> Later that year he moved to New York City to reprise the role of Prince Albert in the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production of ''Victoria Regina'', opposite [[Helen Hayes]] in the title role of [[Queen Victoria]].<ref name=Playbill_Victoria_Regina>{{cite web |url=https://playbill.com/production/victoria-regina-broadhurst-theatre-vault-0000002129 |title=Victoria Regina (Broadway, Broadhurst Theatre, 1935) |year=2012 |publication-date=February 17, 1936 |work=[[Playbill]] |access-date=October 15, 2023 |quote=He was studying the history of German art at the Courtauld Institute in London when a friend took him to London's Gate Theatre, where casting of Maurine Watkins' "Chicago" was in process. American accents being at a premium, Mr. Price was thrust into the production and found himself doubling as a burly policeman and a venerable judge. His remarkable resemblance to Prince Albert led to his being offered the important role of the Prince Consort in the ensuing production of "Victoria Regina." He received glowing notices and was subsequently signed by Gilbert Miller for the American production.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/victoria-regina-12049 |title=Victoria Regina – Broadway Play – Original |website=[[IBDB]] |publisher=[[The Broadway League]] |access-date=October 15, 2023}}</ref> He played the role for two seasons at the [[Broadhurst Theatre]], through June 1937. In 1938 he appeared in productions of ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]'' and ''[[Heartbreak House]]'' with [[Orson Welles]]' [[Mercury Theatre]] company. From 1941 to 1942, Price played Mr. Manningham in ''[[Angel Street (play)|Angel Street]]'', the Broadway production of ''Gas Light'', which he helped bring to New York.<ref name=Playbill_Angel_Street>{{cite web |url=https://playbill.com/production/angel-street-john-golden-theatre-vault-0000008490 |title=Angel Street (Broadway, John Golden Theatre, 1941 |year=2012 |publication-date=March 9, 1942 |work=[[Playbill]] |access-date=October 15, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/angel-street-1145 |title=Angel Street – Broadway Play – Original |website=[[IBDB]] |publisher=[[The Broadway League]] |access-date=October 15, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Price">{{cite book |last=Price |first=Victoria |date=1999 |title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/109 |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/109 109–111] |isbn=0-312-24273-5 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

== Career ==
=== 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>

=== 1950s ===
Price was active in radio, portraying the [[Robin Hood]]-inspired crime-fighter [[Simon Templar]] in ''[[The Saint (radio program)|The Saint]]'', which ran from 1947 to 1951. In the 1950s, Price moved into more regular horror-film roles with the leading role in ''[[House of Wax (1953 film)|House of Wax]]'' (1953) as a homicidal sculptor,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/26/obituaries/vincent-price-a-suave-but-menacing-film-presence-is-dead-at-82.html|title=Vincent Price, a Suave but Menacing Film Presence, Is Dead at 82|last=Flint|first=Peter B.|date=October 26, 1993|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 18, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the first [[three-dimensional film]] to land in the year's top 10 at the North American box-office. His next roles were ''[[The Mad Magician]]'' (1954), the monster movie ''[[The Fly (1958 film)|The Fly]]'' (1958), and its sequel ''[[Return of the Fly]]'' (1959). That same year, Price starred in two thrillers by producer-director [[William Castle]]: ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, and ''[[The Tingler]]'' as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovered the titular creature. He appeared in the radio drama ''[[Three Skeleton Key]]'', the story of an island lighthouse besieged by an army of rats. He had first performed the work in 1950 on ''[[Escape (radio program)|Escape]]'' and returned to it in 1956 and 1958 for ''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]''.<ref>[http://www.oneact.org/productions/ThreeSkeletonKey/ThreeSkeletonKey_museum.html One Act Virtual Museum], oneact.org. Retrieved May 20, 2012.</ref>

[[File:House on Haunted Hill (1959) by William Castle.webm|thumb|thumbtime=235|''House on Haunted Hill'' (1959) by William Castle]]
Outside the horror realm, Price played Baka in ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', released in 1956. About this time, he also appeared in episodes of television shows such as ''[[Science Fiction Theatre]]'', ''[[Playhouse 90]]'', and ''[[General Electric Theater]]''. In the 1955–56 television season, he was cast three times on the religion anthology series ''[[Crossroads (1955 TV series)|Crossroads]]''. In the 1955 episode "Cleanup", Price portrayed the Reverend Robert Russell. In 1956, he was cast as [[Rabbi]] [[Gershom Mendes Seixas]] in "The Rebel", and as the Rev. Alfred W. Price in "God's Healing".

=== 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&nbsp;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.

=== 1970s ===
During the early 1970s, Price hosted and starred in [[BBC Radio]]'s horror and mystery series ''[[The Price of Fear (radio serial)|The Price of Fear]]''. He accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program ''[[The Hilarious House of Frightenstein]]'' (1971) in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], Ontario, on the local television station [[CHCH-TV]], filming all of his 400 segments over the course of only a few days.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hamiltoncitymagazine.ca/the-legends-of-chch/#:~:text=Price%20filmed%20all%20his%20400,The%20Hilarious%20House%20of%20Frightenstein.|title=The legends of CHCH|website=hamiltoncitymagazine.ca/|date=November 16, 2024 |access-date=April 15, 2025}}</ref> In addition to the opening and closing monologs, his role in the show was to recite poems about various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes.<ref name=chtv>{{cite web|title=CH TV Hamilton History|url=http://www.canada.com/chtv/hamilton/info/history.html|website=canada.com|access-date=January 29, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060129104620/http://www.canada.com/chtv/hamilton/info/history.html|archive-date=January 29, 2006}}</ref> He appeared in ''[[The Abominable Dr. Phibes]]'' (1971), its sequel ''[[Dr. Phibes Rises Again]]'' (1972), and ''[[Theatre of Blood]]'' (1973), in which he portrayed one of two [[serial killer]]s. That same year, he appeared as himself in ''[[Mooch Goes to Hollywood]]'', a film written by [[Jim Backus]].

Price was an admirer of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 1975 visited the [[Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia)|Edgar Allan Poe Museum]] in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], Virginia, where he had his picture taken with the museum's popular stuffed raven.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Curran|first1=Colleen|title=Poe Museum celebrates Edgar Allan Poe with the International Poe Film Festival|url=http://www.richmond.com/entertainment/article_555b25b6-04d3-5f3e-9b4a-d9e665b964a7.html|website=Richmond.com|date=September 21, 2016 |publisher=Richmond Times-Dispatch|access-date=September 23, 2016}}</ref> Price also recorded dramatic readings of Poe's short stories and poems, which were collected together with readings by [[Basil Rathbone]].

In 1975, Price and his wife [[Coral Browne]] appeared together in an international stage adaptation of ''Ardèle'', which played in the U.S. and in London at the [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]]. During this run, Browne and Price starred together in the BBC Radio play ''Night of the Wolf'' first airing in 1975.<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0fe53a646510449c88fa19e3d1675c4d ''Night of the Wolf'' details], genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 23, 2016.</ref> Price greatly reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a slump, and he increased his narrative and voice work, as well as advertising [[Milton Bradley Company|Milton Bradley]]'s Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/monsters/1.html|title=Silly Vintage Monster Toys|publisher=X-Entertainment|access-date=October 7, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209164543/http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/monsters/1.html|archive-date=February 9, 2013}}</ref>

Price provided a monolog for the [[Alice Cooper]] song "The Black Widow" on the ''[[Welcome to My Nightmare]]'' album in 1975, and he appeared in the corresponding TV special ''[[Alice Cooper: The Nightmare]]''. He starred for a year in the early 1970s in the syndicated daily radio program ''Tales of the Unexplained''. He made guest appearances in a 1970 episode of ''[[Here's Lucy]]'', showcasing his art expertise, and in a 1972 episode of ABC's ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', in which he played a deranged [[archaeologist]]. In October 1976, he appeared as the featured guest in an episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. In 1977, Price recorded a cover version of [[Bobby "Boris" Pickett]]'s 1962 Single record [[The Monster Mash]] produced by UK record producers Ken Burgess and Bob Newby and released in the UK by [[EMI Records]].

Also in 1977, Price began performing as [[Oscar Wilde]] in the one-man stage play ''Diversions and Delights'', written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy, and set in a Parisian theater on a night about one year before Wilde's death. The original tour of the play was a success in every city except for New York City. In the summer of 1979, Price performed the role of Wilde at the [[Leadville Historic District#Historic structures in Leadville|Tabor Opera House]] in [[Leadville]], Colorado, on the same stage from which Wilde had spoken to miners about art some 96 years before. He eventually performed the play worldwide.<ref name="Vincent"/> Victoria Price stated in her biography of her father that several members of Price's family and friends thought that this was his best acting performance.<ref name="Vincent"/>

In 1979, Price starred with his wife in the short-lived [[CBS]] series ''[[Time Express]]''. That same year he hosted the hour-long television special ''America Screams'', riding on several [[roller coaster]]s and recounting their history.<ref>{{Citation|last=Campbell|first=Scott|title=America Screams|date=December 28, 1981|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1363088/|type=Documentary|publisher=Cyclone Productions|access-date=October 12, 2021}}</ref> During 1979–1980, he hosted the "Mystery Night" segment of the radio series ''[[Sears Radio Theater]]''.

=== Later career ===
[[File:Vincent Price on the red carpet at the 1989 Academy Awards.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Price on the red carpet at the [[61st Academy Awards|1989 Academy Awards]]]]
In 1982, Price provided the narrator's voice in ''[[Vincent (1982 film)|Vincent]],'' [[Tim Burton]]'s six-minute film about a young boy who flashes from reality into a fantasy where he is Vincent Price.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/watch-vincent-tim-burtons-animated-tribute-to-vincent-price-edgar-allan-poe-1982.html|title=Watch Vincent, Tim Burton's Animated Tribute to Vincent Price & Edgar Allan Poe (1982)|work=Open Culture|access-date=August 4, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> That same year, Price provided the spoken-word sequence throughout the [[Michael Jackson]] song "[[Thriller (song)|Thriller]]",<ref name="thrillertitleinterview">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3669538/Michael-Jacksons-monster-smash.html|title=Michael Jackson's monster smash|author=Peter Lyle|date=November 25, 2007|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=January 24, 2010}}</ref> and appeared as Sir Despard Murgatroyd in a television production of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[Ruddigore]]'' (with [[Keith Michell]] as Robin Oakapple). In 1983, he played the Sinister Man in the British spoof horror film ''[[Bloodbath at the House of Death]]''. He appeared in ''[[House of the Long Shadows]]'' with [[Christopher Lee]], [[Peter Cushing]], and [[John Carradine]]; he had worked with each of those actors at least once in previous decades, but this was the first time that all had teamed up. One of his last major roles, and one of his favorites, was as the voice of Professor Ratigan in [[Walt Disney Pictures]]' ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/155292%7C151397/Vincent-Price/|title=Overview for Vincent Price|website=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref>

From 1981 to 1989, Price hosted the [[PBS]] television series ''[[Mystery!]]'' In 1985, he provided voice talent on the Hanna-Barbera series ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo]]'' as the mysterious "Vincent Van Ghoul", who aided Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and the gang in recapturing thirteen demons. He was a lifelong fan of roller coasters, and he narrated a 1987 thirty-minute documentary on the history of roller coasters and amusement parks, including [[Coney Island]]. During this time (1985–1989), he appeared in horror-themed commercials for [[Tilex]] bathroom cleanser.

In 1984, Price appeared in [[Shelley Duvall]]'s live-action series ''[[Faerie Tale Theatre]]'' as the Mirror in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", and the narrator for "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers". In 1987, he starred with [[Bette Davis]], [[Lillian Gish]], and [[Ann Sothern]] in ''[[The Whales of August]],'' a story of two sisters living in [[Maine]] facing the end of their days. His performance in ''The Whales of August'' earned an [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/57806/Vincent-Price/awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113081406/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/57806/Vincent-Price/awards|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 13, 2013|work=[[The New York Times]]|year=2013|title=Vincent Price|access-date=November 18, 2017}}</ref>

In 1989, Price was inducted into the [[St. Louis Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement|title=St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees|publisher=St. Louis Walk of Fame|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=October 31, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031162946/http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement|url-status=dead}}</ref> His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'' (1990).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/edward-scissorhands-10-things-didnt-know/|title=Edward Scissorhands: 10 things you didn't know about the film that made Johnny Depp a Hollywood star|last=Vincent|first=Alice|date=December 7, 2016|work=The Telegraph|access-date=January 18, 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

In 1990, Price recorded the narration of the Phantom for the [[Phantom Manor]] attraction at [[Disneyland Paris]]. However, shortly after the ride opened in 1992, the narration was removed and replaced with one entirely in French, performed by Gérard Chevalier. Only Price's infamous laughter remained on the soundtrack. In 2018, during a major renovation, it was announced that parts of Price's narration would be restored. Since the 2019 reopening, the new tracks are dual-language; Price's original excerpts as well as previously unused material from his 1990 recording comprise the English-speaking portions, while actor [[Bernard Alane]] voices the Phantom in French.

==Art==
Price, who studied art history at Yale, was an art lover and collector. He was a commissioner of the [[Indian Arts and Crafts Board]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Price|first1=Vincent|title=I Like What I Know : A Visual Autobiography|date=1959|publisher=Doubleday & Company|location=Garden City, NY|page=241}}</ref>

In 1957, impressed by the spirit of the students and the community's need for the opportunity to experience original artworks firsthand, Vincent and Mary Grant Price donated 90 pieces from their private collection and a large amount of money to establish the [[Vincent Price Art Museum]] at [[East Los Angeles College]] in [[Monterey Park, California]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vincentpriceartmuseum.org/about/history/|title=History of the Vincent Price Art Museum|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012155710/http://vincentpriceartmuseum.org/about/history/|archive-date=October 12, 2010}}</ref> which was the first "teaching art collection" owned by a [[Community colleges in the United States|community college]] in the United States. They ultimately donated some 2,000 pieces; the collection contains over 9,000 pieces and has been valued in excess of $5&nbsp;million.<ref>[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&uri=full=3100001~!215460~!0#focus Aug. 1992 interview by the Smithsonian], Siris-archives.si.edu (October 25, 1993). Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref>

Price also spent time working as an art consultant for [[Sears, Roebuck and Co.]]<ref name="biography.com"/> From 1962 to 1971, Sears offered the "Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art", selling about 50,000 fine-art prints to the general public. Works that Price selected or commissioned for the collection included some by [[Rembrandt]], [[Pablo Picasso]], and [[Salvador Dalí]].<ref>[http://www.searsarchives.com/history/art/ "Sears and Fine Art: Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art"], Searsarchives.com. Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref><ref>Kells, Laura J.; Colton, Paul; and Jackson, Allyson, [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2001/ms001033.pdf "Vincent Price. A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress"]. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. (1994). Latest revision: 2006 April</ref> Public access to fine art was important to Price, who, according to his daughter Victoria, saw the Sears deal as an "opportunity to put his populist beliefs into practice, to bring art to the American public." In the 1960s, portraits of Native Americans painted by [[Charles Bird King]] were secured for [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis#White House restoration|Jacqueline Kennedy]]'s White House restoration. Through the efforts of Vincent Price, these five paintings were paid for and donated to the [[White House Collection]] by Sears.<ref>{{cite book|last=Price|first=Victoria|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|year=1999|publisher=St. Martins Press|isbn=978-0312242732|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/223 223]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/223}}</ref>

Price amassed his own extensive collection of art, and in 2008, a painting bought for $25 by a couple from [[Dallas]] was identified as a piece from Price's collection. Painted by leading Australian modernist [[Grace Cossington Smith]], it was given a modern valuation of AU$45,000.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140909142411/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/painting-bought-for-just-us25/story-e6frg6n6-1111117197672 "$45,000 painting bought for just $US25"], ''[[The Australian]]'', August 15, 2008.</ref>

==Cooking==
Price was a gourmet cook, and he authored several cookbooks with his second wife, Mary. These include:
* ''A Treasury of Great Recipes'' (1965)
* ''Mary and Vincent Price present a National Treasury of Cookery'' (1967)
* ''Mary and Vincent Price's Come into the Kitchen Cook Book: A Collector's Treasury of America's Great Recipes'' (1969)
* ''Cooking Price-Wise with Vincent Price'' (1971)

''Mary and Vincent Price present a National Treasury of Cookery'' was a five-volume series, packaged in a boxed set and published by the Heirloom Publishing Company. These five books were combined into a single book two years later and published as ''Mary and Vincent Price's Come into the Kitchen Cook Book: A Collector's Treasury of America's Great Recipes''. Most of the Prices' cookbooks remained in print throughout the 1970s. After being out of print for several decades, two of their books were reprinted; ''A Treasury of Great Recipes'' (in August 2015 by Calla Editions) and ''Mary and Vincent Price's Come into the Kitchen Cook Book'' (in November 2016 by Calla Editions), both featuring new forewords by their daughter Victoria Price. ''Cooking Price-Wise with Vincent Price'' was scheduled to be reprinted by Dover Publishing in October 2017 under the updated title ''Cooking Price-Wise – The Original Foodie''.

The movie ''[[His Kind of Woman]]'' has a comedic scene in which Price, having invited [[Jane Russell]] and [[Robert Mitchum]] to dinner, receives bad news. He plays the entire scene holding a duck in his hand, ready to be cooked "soaked in sherry with only salt, sage, and pepper."

In 1971, Price hosted his own cooking program on British television, called ''Cooking Price-Wise'' produced for the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] network by [[Thames Television]], which was broadcast in April and May 1971. This show gave its name to Price's fourth and final cookbook later that year. Price promoted his cookbooks on many talk shows, one of the most famous instances being the November 21, 1975, broadcast of ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', when he demonstrated how to poach a fish in a dishwasher.

Price recorded a number of audio cooking tutorials titled ''International Cooking Course''. These were titled ''Bounty of Paradise'', ''Classical Spanish Cuisine'', ''Cuisina Italiana'', ''Delights from the Sultan's Pantry'', ''Dinner at the Casbah'', ''Dining at Versailles'', ''Exotic Delights from the Far East'', ''Food of the Gods'', ''Foods from the Austro-Hungarian Empire'', ''La Cocina Mejicana'', ''The Bard's Board'', and ''The Wok''. In addition to those, he recorded an audio wine course titled ''Wine Is Elegance''. These audio recordings were released on 33⅓ LPs by Nelson Industries in 1977 and were also packaged in a 12-cassette boxed set titled ''Beverly Hills Cookbook – Cookbook of the Rich and Famous, Your Host Mr. Vincent Price''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Vincent Price Exhibit: Radio and Recordings|url=https://vincentpriceexhibit.com/Recordings.html|access-date=October 12, 2021|website=vincentpriceexhibit.com}}</ref>

In August 1982, he co-hosted ''A Taste of China'' for Thames Television over five episodes. He also prepared a fish recipe on [[Wolfgang Puck]]'s ''Cooking with Wolfgang Puck'' [[VHS]], released in October 1987 by [[Warner Home Video]].

==Personal life==
Price married three times. His first marriage was in 1938 to former actress [[Edith Barrett]]; they had one son, poet and columnist [[Vincent Barrett Price]]. Edith and Price divorced in 1948. Price married [[Mary Grant Price|Mary Grant]] in 1949, and they had a daughter, inspirational speaker [[Victoria Price]], on April 27, 1962,<ref>{{cite book|last=Price|first=Victoria|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|year=1999|publisher=St. Martins Press|isbn=978-0312242732|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/235 235]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/235}}</ref> naming her after Price's first major success in the play ''Victoria Regina''.<ref>[http://vincentprice.org/bios/victoriassecret.html Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114102937/http://vincentprice.org/bios/victoriassecret.html |date=November 14, 2012 }}, Vincentprice.org. Retrieved October 10, 2012.</ref> The marriage lasted until 1973. He married Australian actress [[Coral Browne]] in 1974; she had appeared as one of his victims in ''Theatre of Blood'' (1973). The marriage lasted until her death in 1991.<ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-28/who-was-australian-actress-coral-browne-hollywood-star/101654722 Zengerer, Catherine & Kesteven, Sophie, "Australian actor Coral Browne went from humble beginnings to a 1940s Hollywood star"]. ''ABC Radio National''. September 14, 2024</ref>

Victoria Price's biography ''Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography'' (1999) details Price's early [[antisemitism]]<ref>{{cite magazine | first=Charles |last=Winecoff |title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography | magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] | date=October 22, 1999 | url=https://ew.com/article/1999/10/22/vincent-price-daughters-biography/ | access-date=May 4, 2020}}</ref> and initial admiration for [[Adolf Hitler]]. According to his daughter: "When he went to Germany and Austria as a young man, he was struck by a lot of things going on during the [[Weimar Republic]] and the dissolution of the [[German Empire|empire]]... So when Hitler came into power, instead of seeing him as a dangerous force, he was sort of swept up in this whole idea that Hitler was going to bring German pride back."<ref name="liberal"/> However, Price became a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] after becoming friends with [[New York intellectuals]] such as [[Dorothy Parker]] and [[Lillian Hellman]] in the 1930s,<ref name="liberal">{{cite news |title=Some Scary Secrets in Vincent Price Biography|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1999-10-15-9910130899-story.html |access-date=November 19, 2020 |work=[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]] |date=October 15, 1999}}</ref> so much so that he was "[[Hollywood blacklist|greylisted]]" under [[McCarthyism]] in the 1950s for having been a prewar [[antifascism|"premature anti-Nazi"]]. After being unable to find work for a year, he agreed to requests by the [[FBI]] that he sign a "secret oath" to save his career.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.victoriaprice.com/vincent-price-a-daughters-biography|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|website=Victoria Price|access-date=May 5, 2020|archive-date=December 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208173253/https://www.victoriaprice.com/vincent-price-a-daughters-biography|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Susan |title=Classic Hollywood: Vincent Price screenings at Aero, LACMA |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-oct-10-la-et-classic-hollywood-20111010-story.html |access-date=November 19, 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 10, 2011}}</ref> Victoria said that her father became so liberal that "one of my brother's earliest memories is when [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s death was announced, my father fell backward off the sofa sobbing."<ref name="liberal"/>

Price denounced racial and religious prejudice as a form of poison at the end of an episode of ''The Saint'',<ref>[http://wn.com/Vincent_Price_On_Racism_And_Religious_Prejudice Price]. Wn.com. Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref> which aired on [[NBC Radio]] on July 30, 1950,<ref>[http://www.saint.org/radio.htm "The Saint on Old-Time Radio"], Saint.org. Retrieved November 3, 2011.</ref>
claiming that Americans must fight against it because such prejudices within the United States fuel support for the nation's enemies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vincent Price On Racism And Religious Prejudice| date=December 28, 2008 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMCqOmsMB4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/mrMCqOmsMB4| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|via=YouTube|access-date=May 27, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He was later appointed to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board under the [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] administration; he called the appointment "kind of a surprise, since I am a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6Mnh1z81YEC&q=Vincent+Price+Democrat&pg=PT637|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|access-date=October 7, 2012|isbn=9781429979481|last1=Price|first1=Victoria|year= 2011|publisher=Macmillan }}</ref>

Price was supportive of his daughter Victoria when she came out as a lesbian and joined [[PFLAG]] as an honorary board member. He was critical of [[Anita Bryant]]'s anti-[[gay rights]] campaign in the 1970s. Price was also one of the first celebrities to film a [[public service announcement]] to help allay public fears about [[HIV/AIDS]].<ref name="daughter confirms">{{Cite news|first=Colin|last=Murphy|url=https://www.queerty.com/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-famous-father-was-bisexual-20151025|title=Vincent Price's Daughter Confirms Her Famous Father Was Bisexual|work=[[Queerty]]|date=October 25, 2015|access-date=August 4, 2017}}</ref><ref name=VPriceBio>{{cite book|first=Victoria|last=Price|title=Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]]|location=New York City|date=1999|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/305 305]|isbn=978-0-312-24273-2|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312242732/page/305}}</ref><ref name=VPriceLGBT>{{Cite news|first=Dan|last=Avery|url=http://www.newnownext.com/vincent-princes-daughter-confirms-he-was-bisexual-and-a-pretty-awesome-dad/10/2015|title=Vincent Price's Daughter Confirms He Was Bisexual – And A Pretty Awesome Dad|date=October 22, 2015|agency=NewNowNext.com|access-date=October 23, 2015}}</ref><ref name=VPrice1>{{Cite news|first=Colin|last=Murphy|url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/10/vincent-prices-daughter-confirms-her-fathers-bisexuality|title=Vincent Price's daughter confirms her father's bisexuality|work=Boom Magazine|publisher=LGBTQNation.com|date=October 22, 2015|access-date=October 28, 2015}}</ref> In an interview in 2015, Victoria said that her father confided in her his [[bisexuality|intimate, though nonsexual, relationships with men]] when she came out to him as a lesbian.<ref name=VPriceLGBT/><ref name=VPrice1/>

==Illness and death==
Price suffered from [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]] and [[Parkinson's disease]]. His symptoms were especially severe during the filming of ''Edward Scissorhands'', requiring his filming schedule to be shortened. His illness also contributed to his retirement from ''Mystery!'' in 1989. 

Price died at age 82 of lung cancer on October 25, 1993, at his home in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="obit">{{cite news|author=Peter B. Flint|title=Vincent Price, Noted Actor Of Dark Roles, Dies at 82|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/27/obituaries/vincent-price-noted-actor-of-dark-roles-dies-at-82.html|quote=Vincent Price, the suavely menacing star of countless low-budget but often stylish Gothic horror films, died at his home in Los Angeles on Monday. He was 82 years old and died of lung cancer, said a personal assistant, Reggie Williams. ...|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 27, 1993|access-date=October 27, 2014}}</ref> His remains were [[cremated]] and his ashes scattered off Nicholas Canyon Beach, near [[Point Dume]] in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vincentpricelegacy.uk/tag/camp-vincent-ii/ |title=Camp Vincent II - Vincent Price Legacy UK |date=November 1, 2016 |website=Vincent Price Legacy UK |access-date=August 18, 2022 |quote="Heading out to Point Dume and Nicholas Beach in Malibu, where Vincent's ashes were scattered out at sea, we shall join a special remembrance service and luncheon led by Victoria."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vincent-price-malibu-remembrance-service-tickets-26862068169 |title=Vincent Price Malibu Remembrance Service |date=November 13, 2016 |website=Eventbrite |publisher=The Vincent Price Estate |access-date=August 18, 2022 |quote="His ashes were scattered by his family off at Nicholas Canyon Beach in Malibu, California."}}</ref>

==Legacy==
The [[A&E Network]] aired an episode of ''[[Biography (TV program)|Biography]]'' the night following Price's death, highlighting his horror-film career, but because of its failure to clear copyrights, the show was never aired again. Four years later, A&E produced its updated episode, titled ''Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain'', which aired on October 12, 1997. The script was by Lucy Chase Williams, author of ''The Complete Films of Vincent Price''.<ref>Citadel Press, 1995</ref> In early 1991, Tim Burton was developing a personal documentary with the working title ''[[Conversations with Vincent]],'' in which interviews with Price were shot at the Vincent Price Gallery, but the project was never completed and was eventually shelved.<ref name=hanke1999>{{cite book|last=Hanke|first=Ken|title=Tim Burton: an unauthorized biography of the filmmaker|year=1999|publisher=Renaissance Books|location=Los Angeles, Calif|isbn=978-1-58063-162-4|edition=1st}}</ref>

Price was an honorary board member and strong supporter of the [[Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum]] in [[Bristol, Connecticut]], until his death in 1993. The museum features detailed life-sized wax replicas of characters from some of Price's films, including ''The Fly,'' ''The Abominable Dr. Phibes,'' and ''The Masque of the Red Death.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.preservehollywood.org/DungeonWebNew/Home.html |title=Preserve Hollywood |publisher=Preservehollywood.org |access-date=November 13, 2008 |archive-date=February 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210094501/https://www.preservehollywood.org/DungeonWebNew/Home.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> A [[black-box theater]] at Price's alma mater, [[Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School]], is named after him.

"Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice" was a muppet who hosted "Mysterious Theater" on ''[[Sesame Street]]'', spoofing Price's hosting of ''Mystery!'' Price was parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' ("[[Sunday, Cruddy Sunday]]"). Price had his own ''[[Spitting Image]]'' puppet, who was always trying to be "sinister" and lure people into his ghoulish traps, only for his victims to point out all the obvious flaws. ''[[Rhythmeen]]'', the [[ZZ Top]] album from 1996, includes a track named "Vincent Price Blues".

Starting in November 2005, featured cast member [[Bill Hader]] of the [[NBC]] sketch comedy/variety show ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' has played Price in a recurring sketch in which Price hosts botched holiday specials filled with celebrities of the 1950s/'60s. Other cast members who played Price on ''SNL'' include [[Dan Aykroyd]] and [[Michael McKean]] (who played Price when he hosted a season-10 episode and again when he was hired as a cast member for the 1994–95 season).

In 1999, a frank and detailed biography of Price written by his daughter, Victoria, was published by [[St. Martin's Press]]. In late May 2011, an event was held by the organization Cinema St. Louis to celebrate what would have been Price's 100th birthday. It included a public event with Victoria at the Missouri History Museum and a showcase of ephemeral and historic items at the gallery inside the [[Sheldon Concert Hall]].<ref>[http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/movies/joe-williams/article_9f531f16-6a13-11e0-b345-001a4bcf6878.html Vincentennial: It's alive!] by Joe Williams, Film Critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLToday.com, April 18, 2011.</ref><ref>Patrick Clark, [https://web.archive.org/web/20111007065637/http://www.kplr11.com/news/kplr-sheldon-vincent-price-041911,0,7169923.story Sheldon Gallery Celebrates Vincent Price's 100th Birthday], KPLR11.com, April 19, 2011.</ref>

In an unusual convergence of widely different generational and cultural backgrounds, the genteel Price was a friend of the English [[hard rock]] band [[Deep Purple]] and in 1975, he appeared on [[Roger Glover]]'s live version of ''[[The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast]]'' as a narrator.<ref name="Deep">{{cite magazine|url=http://hub.contactmusic.com/deep-purple/news/ian-gillan-new-song-vincent-price-is-just-a-bit-of-fun_3691430|title=Ian Gillan: 'New Song Vincent Price Is Just A Bit Of Fun'|magazine=[[Contactmusic.com]]|access-date=April 16, 2017|date=May 29, 2013}}</ref> Decades later, in 2013, Deep Purple released "[[Vincent Price (song)|Vincent Price]]", a single the band members dedicated to him.<ref name="Deep"/> That same year, American director and writer [[John Waters]] composed a "heartfelt and appreciative" retrospective on Price for [[Turner Classic Movies]], which recognized the actor as its "Star of the Month" in October 2013 and showcased then a selection of his most popular films.<ref name="TCMvp">[http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd5VKx1UJUI "TCM Star of the Month Vincent Price October 2013 John Waters Retrospective"], video copy, [[Turner Classic Movies]], Atlanta, Georgia; originally posted on YouTube by SonOfASpaceApe, October 6, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2019.</ref> The tribute was repeatedly broadcast on TCM to promote and complement those televised presentations. In sharing with viewers his feelings about Price, Waters at one point describes the actor's screen appeal, especially when he was featured in darker roles:

{{blockquote|One raise of his eyebrow and you knew you were about to be thrilled by a debonair, evil, yet sympathetic villain...I can't imagine these films without Vincent Price in them. He was just a fine actor, never pretentious. The audiences that went to see him were all-inclusive, from the poorest people to the richest. Nobody disliked him. Vincent Price was classless, even though he was classy, an exaggerated gentleman. He gave upscale a good name, and he was always handsome, dignified, charming, and a little bit sinister.<ref name="TCMvp"/>}}

==Filmography==
{{Main|List of Vincent Price works}}

== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite book |last=Price |first=Vincent |title=I Like What I Know – A Visual Autobiography |publisher=Doubleday |year=1959 |isbn=9781504042161 |location=Garden City, NY}}
* {{Cite book |last=Price |first=Vincent |title=The book of Joe; about a dog and his man |publisher=Doubleday |year=1961 |oclc=1292943}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Price |first1=Mary |title=A Treasury of Great Recipes |last2=Price |first2=Vincent |publisher=Bernard Geis Associates |others=Illustrated by Fritz Kredel |year=1965 |isbn=9781121111134}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Price |first1=Vincent |title=Mary and Vincent Price Present A National Treasury of Cookery |last2=Price |first2=Mary Grant |publisher=Heirloom Publishing Company |year=1967 |oclc=1450485}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Price |first1=Vincent |title=Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book: A Collector's Treasury of America's Great Recipes |last2=Price |first2=Mary Grant |publisher=Stravon Educational Press |year=1969 |isbn=0873960203}}
* {{Cite book |last=Price |first=Vincent |title=Cooking Price-wise with Vincent Price |publisher=Corgi Children's |year=1971 |isbn=0552086657}}
* {{Cite book |title=The Vincent Price treasury of American art |publisher=Online Computer Library Center |year=1972 |isbn=9780872940314 |oclc=539027}}
* {{Cite book |last=Price |first=Vincent |title=Vincent Price: His Movies, His Plays, His Life |publisher=Doubleday & Co |year=1978 |isbn=0385115946}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Price |first1=Vincent |title=Monsters |last2=Price |first2=V.B. |publisher=Grosset & Dunlap |year=1981 |isbn=9780448143057}}

'''Introductions to works by others'''
* Peter Haining (ed). ''The Ghouls''. New York: Stein and Day, 1971.
* Tom Hutchinson. ''Horror and Fantasy in the Movies''. New York: Crescent Books, 1974.

==Audio books==
* {{cite AV media | last = Price | first = Vincent | title = A Graveyard Of Ghost Tales | year = 1974 | medium = LP record (57 minutes) | work = Caedmon Records (TC 1420)}}

==References==
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* [http://www.vincentprice.com/ Vincent Price Official Website]
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* [http://vincentpriceartmuseum.org Vincent Price Gallery]
* [http://stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductee/vincent-price/ St. Louis Walk of Fame]
* [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2001/ms001033.pdf Vincent Price Papers catalog]
* [http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/1661/vincent-price Vincent Price] at Virtual History
* [http://www.cookingvincent.com Cooking with Vincent, A Treasury Of Great Recipes]
* [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1625 Vincent Price Papers (MS 1625).] Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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