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" I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge."
-Vincent Price

This thread is for the discussion of Vincent Price and all of his amazing characters he portrayed and his impressive filmography.
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*stares at mega list* Dude, I've seen a patheticly small amount of what's listed there in my 25 years of life. Eventually I'll feel the urge to see more of the stuff he's been in when I'm considering a fresh interest. I'm juggling a lot of interests right now.

Let's see, I've seen: The Princess and the Cobbler, Edward Scissorhands, Episode 1 of Tiny Toons, The Little Troll Prince, The Great Mouse Detective, the two episodes of Faerie Tale Theater (not positive but I adored that show as a kid and must have seen every episode at least once) and The Bat (1959).

I've always liked this song.
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Ooh! Ooh! Vincent was terrific in Masque of the Red Death! That's one of my favorites! And of course I've also seen Great Mouse Detective, Edward Scissorhands, and Thief and the Cobbler, as well as Laura. Imdb also mentions he was in Ten Commandments, but I don't recall that, and I watched it a few months ago?

I have been a huge Vincent Price fan all of my life, and remember some of his best pictures. He was fabulous in House of Wax in which he was the bad guy and the film was originally done in 3-D, and this was made in the 50's. The remake sucked big time, I have to figure out why people like Paris Hilton and think she is so beautiful, because truly she is ugly, and dumb as a box of rocks (but that is just my opinion, which in this case is correct!!).

The Pit and the Pendulum was another of his good films. He seemed to lean toward the Edgar Allen Poe stories.

Master of the World costarred Charles Bronson and a great adventure that took place high in the sky in a balloon-like aircraft.

Comedy of Terrors was a trio of stories in one movie and also featured Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff, and was as funny as it was scary.

There have been quite a few of his films remade in the past few years and none of them can hold a candle to the originals.

Vincent Price was also a guest villain on several television shows including "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.".

Robertson wrote:Vincent was terrific in Masque of the Red Death! That's one of my favorites!

Mine too.

In fact, that's my favorite of his performances.


Oh, and... Junkie - I think you're thinking Tales of Terror, not Comedy of Terrors. Comedy of Terrors is the one where he and Peter Lorre kill people to boost their funeral business but all their customers end up making things worse instead. And he's mean to his wife and Lorre has a crush on her.

I've got most of the MGM Midnite Movies with Vincent, but I haven't watched many of them yet...

Of course, there is Edward Scissorhands, and Vincent (on The Nightmare Before Christmas).

Other than that, I've seen:
Dead Heat
The Great Mouse Detective
Scavenger Hunt (I think, on TV back in the day)
Egghead on Batman
The Tingler
Bud Abbott & Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

And then several "self" appearances like "The Muppet Show."

I always found Mr. Prince attractive. Maybe it's the voice or the fact he stood at 6'4, I believe.

LOVE, LOVE his horror/Sci-Fi stuff!

He's possibly my favorite actor, and he wrote some cookbooks too! Among other really neat stuff he apparently did so says IMDB.

Here's a run-down of what I've seen his work in. There's probably more but I may not remember them all:

Laura
The Invisible Man Returns
House of Wax
House of Usher
The Fly
The Great Mouse Detective
Edward Scissorhands
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
The Raven
The Comedy of Terrors
The Ten Commandments (I didn't even recognize him!)

I need to see the rest of House on Haunted Hill and The Pit and the Pendulum, along with The Abominable Dr Phibes (can't believe it's not on the itunes store but the sequel was!) and House of the Seven Gables (never put to DVD).

His work for Disney includes not only Ratagin but also begin the original narrator for the Phantom Manor attraction and narrating the Sorcery in the Sky fireworks at one point .

I've been a fan of Vincent Price (well, mainly Vincent Price as Baka) ever since I saw The Ten Commandments in 1990. The name itself is rather memorable and important, like you're expected to know it even if you have no idea of his work. I think since I always associate him with Baka that it's harder for me to watch his other roles, and I actually associate him more with The Ten Commandments and his 1940s films than with the horror films he did later on. Some of my favourites include Laura, Leave Her to Heaven Dragonwyck, House of Wax, and of course The Ten Commandments. The first three I associate more with Gene Tierney than with Vincent Price, though in Dragonwyck he can be absolutely terrifying. I've only seen two of his Poe films (The Fall of the House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum). When I read the imdb list and saw he was the Magic Mirror in "Faerie Tale Theatre: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", I was surprised. As a kid, I never knew he was the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective, though now it's easily identifiable.

albert