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Vincent Price
Age: 82 (passed away Oct. 25th, 1993)
Height: 6' 4"
Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Born: May. 27th, 1911
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BIOGRAPHY: Actor, writer, and gourmet, Vincent Price was born in St Louis, Missouri. He traveled through Europe, studied at Yale and became an actor. He made his screen debut in 1938, and after many minor roles, he began to perform in low-budget horror movies such as House of Wax (1953), achieving his first major success with House of Usher (1960). Known for his distinctive, low-pitched, creaky, atmospheric voice and his quizzical, mock-serious facial expressions, he went on to star in a series of acclaimed Gothic horror movies, such as Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).
He abandoned films in the mid-1970s, going on to present cooking programs for television - he wrote "A Treasury of Great Recipes" (1965) with his second wife, Mary Grant (I) - but had two final roles in The Whales of August (1987) and Edward Scissorhands (1990). He also recorded many Gothic horror short stories for the spoken-word label Caedmon Records.
TRIVIA:
- Attended the St. Louis, Missouri private high school, Country Day.
- Price and 'Christopher Lee (I)' (qv) were born on the same day (27th May) and 'Peter Cushing' (qv) was born on the 26th.
- An avid gourmet chef, he wrote a number of cookbooks.
- Price voted for Republican candidate 'Wendell Willkie' (qv) in the 1940 presidential election, since both his parents were conservatives. Shortly thereafter, his political views altered completely, and he later became one of the most active liberal Democrats in Hollywood.
- His ashes were scattered off the Californian coast of Malibu together with his favorite gardening hat.
- Played the devil in _The Story of Mankind (1957)_ (qv).
- He would often attend showings of his films in costumes; often to play pranks on movie-goers.
- Was notoriously superstitious. He once joked that he kept a horseshoe, a crucifix and a mezzuza on his front door.
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