Vincent Price filmography
Vincent Price in the trailer for
Laura (1944)
This is a filmography of Vincent Price, which includes appearances in theatre and television. Price made his theatre debut in the Gate Theatre's 1935 production of Chicago, followed by work on Broadway. Under contract to Universal, Price traveled to Hollywood, making his screen debut in 1938's Service de Luxe. By the 1960s, Vincent Price was working almost exclusively in the horror genre and teen film genres. Price's final film was Edward Scissorhands (1990) and the TV movie The Heart of Justice (1992) was his last screen appearance. Price died in Los Angeles on October 25, 1993.
Filmography
Year |
Film |
Role |
Director |
Notes |
1938 |
Service de Luxe |
Robert Wade |
Rowland V. Lee |
film debut |
1939 |
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
Michael Curtiz |
|
Tower of London |
Duke of Clarence |
Rowland V. Lee |
|
1940 |
The Invisible Man Returns |
Geoffrey Radcliffe |
Joe May |
|
Green Hell |
David Richardson |
James Whale |
|
The House of the Seven Gables |
Clifford Pyncheon |
Joe May |
|
Brigham Young |
Joseph Smith |
Henry Hathaway |
|
1941 |
Hudson's Bay |
King Charles II |
Irving Pichel |
|
1943 |
The Song of Bernadette |
Prosecutor Vital Dutour |
Henry King |
|
1944 |
The Eve of St. Mark |
Pvt. Francis Marion |
John M. Stahl |
|
Wilson |
William Gibbs McAdoo |
Henry King |
|
Laura |
Shelby Carpenter |
Otto Preminger |
|
The Keys of the Kingdom |
Angus Mealey |
John M. Stahl |
|
1945 |
A Royal Scandal |
Marquis de Fleury |
Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger |
|
Leave Her to Heaven |
Russell Quinton |
John M. Stahl |
|
1946 |
Shock |
Dr. Richard Cross |
Alfred L. Werker |
|
Dragonwyck |
Nicholas Van Ryn |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
|
1947 |
The Web |
Andrew Colby |
Michael Gordon |
|
The Long Night |
Maximilian |
Anatole Litvak |
|
Moss Rose |
Police Inspector R. Clinner |
Gregory Ratoff |
|
1948 |
Up in Central Park |
Boss Tweed |
William A. Seiter |
|
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein |
The Invisible Man |
Charles Barton |
Voice, Uncredited |
Rogues' Regiment |
Mark Van Ratten |
Robert Florey |
|
The Three Musketeers |
Richelieu |
George Sidney |
|
1949 |
The Bribe |
Carwood |
Robert Z. Leonard |
|
Bagdad |
Pasha Ali Nadim |
Charles Lamont |
|
1950 |
The Baron of Arizona |
James Reavis |
Samuel Fuller |
|
Champagne for Caesar |
Burnbridge Waters |
Richard Whorf |
|
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek |
Tracy Holland |
Charles Lamont |
|
1951 |
Adventures of Captain Fabian |
George Brissac |
William Marshall |
|
His Kind of Woman |
Mark Cardigan |
John Farrow |
|
Pictura: An Adventure in Art |
Narrator |
7 co-directors |
|
1952 |
The Las Vegas Story |
Lloyd Rollins |
Robert Stevenson |
|
1953 |
House of Wax |
Professor Henry Jarrod |
André De Toth |
|
1954 |
Dangerous Mission |
Paul Adams |
Louis King |
|
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake |
Colonel Edwin L. Drake |
Arthur Pierson |
|
Casanova's Big Night |
Casanova |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Uncredited |
The Mad Magician |
Don Gallico |
John Brahm |
|
1955 |
Son of Sinbad |
Omar Khayyam |
Ted Tetzlaff |
|
1956 |
Serenade |
Charles Winthrop |
Anthony Mann |
|
While the City Sleeps |
Walter Kyne |
Fritz Lang |
|
The Vagabond King |
Narrator |
Michael Curtiz |
Voice, Uncredited |
The Ten Commandments |
Baka |
Cecil B. DeMille |
|
1957 |
The Story of Mankind |
The Devil |
Irwin Allen |
|
1958 |
The Fly |
François Delambre |
Kurt Neumann |
|
1959 |
House on Haunted Hill |
Frederick Loren |
William Castle |
|
Return of the Fly |
Francois Delambre |
Edward Bernds |
|
The Big Circus |
Hans Hagenfeld |
Joseph M. Newman |
|
The Tingler |
Dr. Warren Chapin |
William Castle |
|
The Bat |
Dr. Malcolm Wells |
Crane Wilbur |
|
1960 |
House of Usher |
Roderick Usher |
Roger Corman |
|
1961 |
Master of the World |
Robur |
William Witney |
|
Pit and the Pendulum |
Nicholas Medina Sebastian Medina |
Roger Corman |
|
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile |
Benakon |
Fernando Cerchio |
|
Rage of the Buccaneers |
Romero |
Mario Costa |
|
1962 |
Confessions of an Opium Eater |
Gilbert De Quincey |
Albert Zugsmith |
|
Tales of Terror |
Locke Fortunato Luchresi M. Valdemar |
Roger Corman |
|
Convicts 4 |
Carl Carmer |
Millard Kaufman |
|
Tower of London |
Richard of Gloucester |
Roger Corman |
|
1963 |
The Raven |
Dr. Erasmus Craven |
Roger Corman |
|
Diary of a Madman |
Magistrate Simon Cordier |
Reginald Le Borg |
|
Beach Party |
Big Daddy |
William Asher |
|
The Haunted Palace |
Joseph Curwen Charles Dexter Ward |
Roger Corman |
|
Twice-Told Tales |
Alex Medbourne Dr. Rappaccini Gerald Pyncheon |
Sidney Salkow |
|
1964 |
The Comedy of Terrors |
Waldo Trumbull |
Jacques Tourneur |
|
The Last Man on Earth |
Dr. Robert Morgan |
Ubaldo Ragona |
|
The Masque of the Red Death |
Prince Prospero |
Roger Corman |
|
I Tabu (Taboos of the World) |
Narrator |
Romolo Marcellini |
|
1965 |
The Tomb of Ligeia |
Verden Fell |
Roger Corman |
|
War-Gods of the Deep |
Sir Hugh, The Captain |
Jacques Tourneur |
|
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine |
Dr. Goldfoot |
Norman Taurog |
|
1966 |
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs |
Dr. Goldfoot General Willis |
Mario Bava |
|
1967 |
The House of 1,000 Dolls |
Felix Manderville |
Jeremy Summers |
|
The Jackals |
Oupa Decker |
Robert D. Webb |
|
1968 |
Witchfinder General (U.S. title Conqueror Worm) |
Matthew Hopkins |
Michael Reeves |
|
Spirits of the Dead |
Narrator |
Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim |
(English-language version, uncredited) |
1969 |
More Dead Than Alive |
Dan Ruffalo |
Robert Sparr |
|
The Trouble with Girls |
Mr. Morality |
Peter Tewksbury |
|
The Oblong Box |
Sir Julian Markham |
Gordon Hessler |
|
1970 |
Scream and Scream Again |
Dr. Browning |
Gordon Hessler |
|
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe |
Narrator |
Kenneth Johnson |
|
Cry of the Banshee |
Lord Edward Whitman |
Gordon Hessler |
|
Cucumber Castle |
Wicked Count Voxville |
Hugh Gladwish |
|
1971 |
Here Comes Peter Cottontail |
January Q. Irontail |
Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. |
Voice |
The Abominable Dr. Phibes |
Dr. Anton Phibes |
Robert Fuest |
|
Mooch Goes to Hollywood |
Himself |
Richard Erdman |
|
What's a Nice Girl Like You...? |
William Spevin |
Jerry Paris |
|
1972 |
Dr. Phibes Rises Again |
Dr. Anton Phibes |
Robert Fuest |
|
1973 |
Theatre of Blood |
Edward Lionheart |
Douglas Hickox |
|
1974 |
Madhouse |
Paul Toombes |
Jim Clark |
|
Percy's Progress |
Stavos Mammonian |
Ralph Thomas |
|
1975 |
Journey Into Fear |
Dervos |
Daniel Mann |
|
Welcome to My Nightmare |
Spider Voice |
David Winters |
Voice |
1976 |
The Butterfly Ball |
Narrator |
Tony Klinger |
Voice |
1979 |
Scavenger Hunt |
Milton Parker |
Michael Schultz |
|
1980 |
Pogo for President: 'I Go Pogo' |
The Deacon |
Marc Paul Chinoy |
Voice |
1981 |
The Monster Club |
Eramus |
Roy Ward Baker |
|
Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner |
Professor Humperdo |
John Trent |
|
1982 |
Vincent |
Narrator |
Tim Burton |
Voice |
1983 |
House of the Long Shadows |
Lionel Grisbane |
Pete Walker |
|
Michael Jackson's Thriller |
Narrator |
John Landis |
Voice |
1984 |
Bloodbath at the House of Death |
Sinister Man |
Ray Cameron |
|
1985 |
The Little Troll Prince |
Ulvik #1 |
Ray Patterson |
Voice |
1986 |
The Great Mouse Detective |
Professor Ratigan |
Burny Mattinson, Ron Clements, David Michener, John Musker |
Voice |
Escapes |
The Mailman |
David Steensland |
|
1987 |
The Nativity |
King Herod |
Don Lusk |
Voice |
From a Whisper to a Scream |
Julian White |
Jeff Burr |
|
The Whales of August |
Mr. Maranov |
Lindsay Anderson |
|
Sparky's Magic Piano |
Henry, Sparky's dad |
Lee Mishkin |
Voice |
1988 |
Dead Heat |
Arthur P. Loudermilk |
Mark Goldblatt |
|
1990 |
Catchfire |
Mr. Avoca |
Dennis Hopper |
|
Edward Scissorhands |
The Inventor |
Tim Burton |
|
1992 |
The Heart of Justice |
Reggie Shaw |
Bruno Barreto |
(TV movie) |
1993 |
The Thief and the Cobbler |
Zig-Zag the Grand Vizier |
Richard Williams |
final film (voice) |
Theatre
Vincent Price, appearing on Broadway as Mr. Manningham in Angel Street; a role he would portray for three years between 1941 and 1944.
Year |
Title |
Role |
Venue |
Run |
1935 |
Victoria Regina |
Prince Albert |
Broadhurst Theatre |
December 26, 1935 - June 1936 |
August 31, 1936 - June 1937 |
1937 |
The Lady Has A Heart |
Jean |
Longacre Theatre |
September 25, 1937 - December 1937 |
1938 |
The Shoemaker's Holiday |
Master Hammon |
Mercury Theatre |
January 1, 1938 - |
National Theatre |
February 1, 1938 - |
Heartbreak House |
Hector Hushabye |
Mercury Theatre |
April 29, 1938 - June 1938 |
Outward Bound |
Rev. William Duke |
Playhouse Theatre |
December 22, 1938 - July 22, 1939 |
1941 |
Angel Street |
Mr. Manningham |
John Golden Theatre |
5 December 1941 – September 30, 1942 |
1942 |
Bijou Theatre |
October 2, 1942 - December 30, 1944 |
1942 |
Yours, A. Lincoln |
Lincoln |
Shubert Theatre |
July 9, 1942 - July 12, 1942 |
1953 |
Richard III |
Duke of Buckingham |
City Centre |
December 9, 1953 - December 20, 1953 |
1954 |
Black-Eyed Susan |
Dr. Nicholas Marsh |
Playhouse Theatre (New York) |
December 23, 1954 - December 25, 1954 |
1968 |
Darling of the Day |
Priam Farll |
George Abbott Theatre |
January 27, 1968 - February 24, 1968 |
1978 |
Diversions and Delights |
Oscar Wilde |
Eugene O'Neill Theatre |
April 12, 1978 - April 22, 1978 |
Television
Year |
Program |
Role |
Episode |
First aired |
1949 |
A Christmas Carol |
Narrator |
|
December 25, 1949 |
1953 |
Summer Theatre |
Cooper Fielding |
"Dream Job" |
July 13, 1953 |
1955 |
Climax! |
Gideon Rone |
"Night of Execution" |
September 22, 1955 |
Crossroads |
Rev. Robert Russell |
"Cleanup" |
October 14, 1955 |
TV Reader's Digest |
John Hayes |
"The Brainwashing of John Hayes" |
November 7, 1955 |
1956 |
Science Fiction Theatre |
Dr. Philip Redmond, Gary Williams |
"Operation Flypaper", "One Thousand Eyes" |
January 14, 1956, September 7, 1956 |
Crossroads |
Rev. Alfred Price |
"God's Healing" |
November 30, 1956 |
1957 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
Charles Courtney |
Appeared in the episode "The Perfect Crime" |
October 20, 1957 |
1958 |
Have Gun – Will Travel |
Charles Matthews / Othello |
Episode 15: "The Moor's Revenge" |
December 27, 1958 |
1965 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. |
Victor Marton |
Episode 33: "The Foxes and Hounds Affair" |
October 8, 1965 |
1966 |
Batman |
Egghead |
Various episodes |
1966 - 1967 |
1967 |
F Troop |
Count Sfoza |
"V is for Vampire" |
February 2, 1967 |
1969 |
Get Smart |
Dr Jarvis Pym |
"Is This Trip Necessary?" |
December 12, 1969 |
1970 |
Mod Squad |
John Wells / Wentworth |
"A Time of Hyacinths" |
December 1, 1970 |
Here's Lucy |
Himself |
Lucy Cuts Vincent's Price |
November 9, 1970 |
1971 |
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein |
Himself |
All episodes |
1971 |
Night Gallery |
Professor |
Class of '99 |
September 22, 1971 |
1972 |
The Jimmy Stewart Show |
Himself |
Price Is Right |
February 13, 1972 |
Night Gallery |
John Carnby |
"The Return of the Sorcerer" |
September 24, 1972 |
The Brady Bunch |
Professor Hubert Whitehead |
"Pass the Tabu" "The Tiki Caves" 2 episodes |
September 29, 1972, October 6, 1972 |
1973 |
Columbo |
David Lang |
"Lovely but Lethal" |
September 23, 1973 |
1976 |
Ellery Queen |
Michael Raynor |
"The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario" |
February 8, 1976 |
The Bionic Woman |
Manfred / Cyrus Carstairs |
"Black Magic", Season 2, Episode 7 |
November 10, 1976 |
1977 |
The Muppet Show |
Himself |
One episode |
January 29, 1977 |
1978 |
The Love Boat |
The Amazing Alonzo |
"Ship of Ghouls" Season 2, Episode 7 |
October 28, 1978 |
1979 |
Time Express |
Jason Winters |
Lead in series, four episodes |
April 26, 1979 |
1984 |
Faerie Tale Theatre |
Magic Mirror |
Episode: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" |
July 16, 1984 |
1985 |
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo |
Vincent Van Ghoul (voice) |
Animated series |
1985 |
1991 |
Tiny Toon Adventures |
Edgar Allan Poe |
Episode: How Sweetie It Is |
November 19, 1991 |
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