Vincent Price

 

The actor Vincent Price was an icon for my generation. He seemed to be in an awful lot of the scary movies we saw as kids at our neighborhood theater on Saturday afternoons. I especially liked the string of great movies he made from about 1958 through 1963.

Then in the mid sixties he was in a bunch of teenage beach movies as some oddball villain. Very weird.

Then he came roaring back in 1971 as the very creepy Dr. Phibes.

All through those years he also made many appearances on many television shows and he was usually the villain.

He certainly mad a lot of memorable films. He was also a serious art collector and art historian. However, after his film work he was probably most known as a gourmet chef and the many cookbooks he has written. Definitely a man of many talents.

Some of the movies of Vincent Price that made an impression on me.

• The Song of Bernadette, 1943
• Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948
• The Three Musketeers, 1948
• House of Wax, 1953
• The Ten Commandments, 1956
• The Fly, 1958
• House on Haunted Hill,1959
• Return of the Fly, 1959
• The Tingler, 1959
• The Bat, 1959
• House of Usher, 1960
• The Pit and the Pendulum, 1961
• Tales of Terror, 1962
• The Raven, 1963
• Beach Party, 1963
• The Haunted Palace, 1963
• The Comedy of Terrors, 1964
• The Last Man on Earth, 1964
• The Masque of the Red Death, 1964
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, 1965
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, 1966
• The House of 1,000 Dolls, 1967
• The Trouble With Girls, 1969
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes, 1971
• Theater of Blood, 1973

He had that fantastic role of the narrator in Michael Jackson's Thriller;

Throughout the sixties and seventies he seemed to pop up on TV shows all over the dial and was usually a villain of some kind. Here is a partial list of some of the shows he appeared on.

• Man From UNCLE
• Batman
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• F Troop
• Get Smart
• Mod Squad
• Night Gallery
• The Love Boat
• Columbo
• Brady Bunch
• The Bionic Woman
• and on and on