Vincent Price

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1911 age 0

   Born

2. 1943 age 32

   CreditThe Song of Bernadette

3. 1944 age 33

   CreditLaura

4. 1945 age 34

   CreditLeave Her to Heaven

5. 1948 age 37

   CreditAbbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

6. 1953 age 42

   CreditHouse of Wax

7. 1956 age 45

   CreditThe Ten Commandments

8. 1990 age 79

   CreditEdward Scissorhands

9. 1993 age 82

   Died

• ANAlfred Newman2 titles
• ABAnne Baxter2 titles
• JAJudith Anderson2 titles
• ANAlan Napier2 titles
• MMMae Marsh2 titles
• PPPaul Picerni2 titles
• DADorothy Adams2 titles
• RRRic Roman2 titles
• GMGrant Mitchell2 titles
• CJCarolyn Jones2 titles

• Spouse

  • CBCoral Browne

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• The best parts are the heavies. The hero is usually someone who has really nothing to do. He comes out on top, but it's the heavy who has all the fun.

  Vincent Price, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [T]he hero is usually a very dull, straightforward guy. He's got to be good.

  Vincent Price, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Is there a better way to die than ... to be watching a movie and then just drop dead? ... with all over you ...

  Vincent Price, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Acting, no matter what they say, is the same kind of art as a or a ist. We are interpretive artists, we interpret the ; the major thing is the script, the . And we are as good as the scriptwriters. A certain couple of movies I’ve done, like , really hold up and are as fresh today as they were 35 years ago, because the script was so good. Laura happened to be a classic movie because it was well made, well cast, and the . That’s the kind of thing one longs to do. One doesn’t get that many of them.

  Vincent Price, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think if I have any regret at all about my theatrical career, it was that I didn’t stay longer in the theater. It was very hard to do because the transportation problem was quite serious. It took thirty-five hours to fly out. So you couldn’t really commute to the movie business the way you can do in London. But I wanted to be in movies, because I loved movies. I was a big movie fan. And still am and always have been.

  Vincent Price, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In a world where slaughter and vicious crimes are daily occurrences, a good ghoulish movie is comic relief.

  Vincent Price, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Cause of death

lung cancer

Height

193 cm

Languages

English

Years active

1938–1993

Education

Courtauld Institute of Art, Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, Milford Academy, Yale University