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). Price's first venture into the horror genre, for which he later became best known, was in the Boris Karloff film Tower of London (1939).
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He played Joseph Smith in the movie Brigham Young (1940) and William Gibbs McAdoo in Wilson (1944), as well as Bernadette's prosecutor, Vital Dutour, in The Song of Bernadette (1943), and as a pretentious priest in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). 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. Price started out in films as a character actor. Manningham in the play Angel Street (1941–1942) In 1936, Price appeared as Prince Albert in the American production of Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina, which starred Helen Hayes in the title role of Queen Victoria. His acting career began in London in 1935, performing with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre. Instead, he was drawn to the theater, first appearing on stage professionally in 1934. 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. In 1933, he graduated with a degree in English and a minor in art history from Yale University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine The Yale Record. Louis Country Day School and Milford Academy in Milford, Connecticut. Price was of Welsh and English descent and was a descendant, via his father's mother, of Peregrine White, the first white child born in colonial Massachusetts, being born on the Mayflower while it was in Provincetown Harbor. Price's Baking Powder", the first cream of tartar-based baking powder, and it secured the family's fortune. His grandfather was Vincent Clarence Price, who invented "Dr. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of the four children of Vincent Leonard Price, president of the National Candy Company, and his wife Marguerite Cobb (née Wilcox) Price. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honor. Price was also an art collector and arts consultant, with a degree in art history, and he lectured and wrote books on the subject. For his voice work in Great American Speeches (1959), Price was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Price narrated several animation films, radio dramas and documentaries, as well as the monologue on Michael Jackson's song " Thriller". For his contributions to cinema, especially to genre films, he has received lifetime achievement or special tribute awards from Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, Fantasporto, Bram Stoker Awards, and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. In his later years, Price voiced the villainous Professor Ratigan in Disney's classic animated film The Great Mouse Detective (1986), then appeared in the drama The Whales of August (1987), which earned him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male nomination, and in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990), his last theatrical release. Price occasionally appeared on television series, such as in Batman as Egghead. He was also known for his collaborations with Roger Corman on Edgar Allan Poe adaptations such as House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), and The Masque of the Red Death (1964).
He subsequently starred in other horror films, including The Fly (1958), House on Haunted Hill (1959), Return of the Fly (1959), The Tingler (1959), The Last Man on Earth (1964), Witchfinder General (1968), The Abominable Dr. He established himself as a recognizable horror-movie star after his leading role in House of Wax (1953). He became well known as a character actor, appearing in films such as The Song of Bernadette (1943), Laura (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Dragonwyck (1946), and The Ten Commandments (1956). Price's first film role was as leading man in the 1938 comedy Service de Luxe. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. (– October 25, 1993) was an American actor best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres.
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