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Vincent Price Vincent Price as Professor Henry Jarrod stands beside his wax sculpture of Marie Antoinette, dressed in elaborate 18th-century attire, in a scene from House of Wax (1953). Lobby card for House on Haunted Hill (1958) featuring Vincent Price seated in a suit, with eerie green illustrations of a skeleton, haunted house, and a man holding a candle. lobby card for The Tingler Vincent Price as Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death, dressed in medieval costume with a falcon perched on his arm. Lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors shows Peter Lorre on the left and Vincent Price on the right, with Price holding a bottle labeled poison as they stare at each other. Vincent Price, in ornate costume, holds a raven on his arm in a scene from the 1963 film The Raven, set in a richly decorated room.
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Gary J. Svehla and Susan Svehla (eds.), Vincent Price (1998); Victoria Price, Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography (1999).

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Add new Web site: City University - CUNY TV - Vincent Price. Jun 30, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 23, 2026
Anniversary information added. Oct 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Smithsonian - Archives of American Art - Oral history interview with Vincent Price, 1992 Aug. 6-14. Sep 12, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - So Good You'll Scream? A Cookbook From Horror Icon Vincent Price. May 24, 2025
Add new Web site: BFI - Goulash, grisly ghouls and the funk of 40,000 years: Vincent Price in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Feb 07, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - 'King of horror' Vincent Price honoured at festival. Dec 09, 2024
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Vincent Price. Sep 12, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Official Site of Vincent Price. Aug 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Missouri Encyclopedia - Vincent Price. Apr 27, 2023
Article revised and updated. Jan 13, 2020
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Vincent Price. May 04, 2017
Media added. Aug 25, 2016
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Vincent Price Profile. Jan 06, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMovie.com - Biography of Vincent Price. Jan 06, 2013
Revised film title for Witchfinder General. Mar 02, 2011
Media added. Apr 09, 2008
Added new Web site: Reel Classics - Vincent Price. Aug 29, 2006
Article revised. Dec 07, 2000
New article added. Dec 01, 2000
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