Vincent Price Net Worth

Vincent Price's Quotes

• Someone called actors "sculptors in snow". Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
• I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.
• "Gothic" is just a word recalling a multitude of sins!
• [Tim Burton's Vincent (1982)] was immortality--better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
• A man who limits his interests limits his life.

Interesting Facts about Vincent Price

1. Price and Christopher Lee were born on the same day (May 27th) and Peter Cushing was born on the 26th. All three are considered legends of the horror genre, and all three appeared together in Scream and Scream Again (1970) and House of the Long Shadows (1983).
2. Loved opera and also being an avid gourmet chef, he wrote a number of cookbooks and often used to cook meals for his co stars.
3. Was notoriously superstitious. He once joked that he kept a horseshoe, a crucifix and a mezuzah on his front door.
4. Shortly before his death, he said that one of his most favorite roles was the voice of Professor Ratigan in the Disney feature The Great Mouse Detective (1986), especially since two original songs had been written for him.
5. Price's first wife, Edith Barrett, gave birth to his son Vincent Leonard Price III (Vincent Barrett Price) on August 30, 1940.
6. Had his own mail-order book club in the 1970s, "Vincent Price Books", specializing in mystery and detective novels.
7. He was the Wednesday night host for CBS Radio's "Sears Mystery Theater" (1979). He was still Wednesday's host when it became "The Mutual Radio Theater" on Mutual Radio (1980).
8. Host of BBC Radio's "The Price of Fear" (1973-1975, 1983).
9. His ashes were scattered off the Californian coast of Malibu together with his favorite gardening hat.
10. Had started an egg-throwing fight while making a guest spot as the villain Egghead on the television series Batman (1966).
11. Although always a gentleman, he was considered an eccentric and often engaged in over-the-top theatrics while discussing his favorite subjects, cooking and poetry.
12. In 1964, at the request of a personal friend, he narrated a brief history of Tombstone, Arizona (titled, "Tombstone, The Town Too Tough to Die"), for use in the diorama at the site of the O.K. Corral gunfight. He reportedly recorded the 20-minute piece in a single take at a recording studio in Hollywood, and when asked about his fee, asked for his pal, the owner of the exhibit at the time, to buy him lunch. Price never visited Tombstone but his narration is still used in the diorama.
13. Made a short speech about the black widow on Alice Cooper's album "Welcome to My Nightmare" (1975).
14. Attended and graduated from the St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis, Missouri.
15. Had appeared in eight horror movies with "house" in the title: The House of the Seven Gables (1940), House of Wax (1953), House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Fall of the House of Usher (1960), House of a Thousand Dolls (1967), The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971), Madhouse (1974) and House of the Long Shadows (1983).
16. He received his Bachelor's degree in art history from Yale University and wrote a syndicated art column in the 1960s. An avid art collector, he founded the Vincent Price Gallery on the campus of East Los Angeles College and encouraged others to develop a personal passion for art.
17. He often expressed an interest in doing Shakespeare, which is why Theatre of Blood (1973) was one of his favorite roles.
18. Charlton Heston starred in The Omega Man (1971) and Will Smith starred in I Am Legend (2007), the remakes of Price's The Last Man on Earth (1964). Prior to this, Heston and Price worked together in The Ten Commandments (1956).
19. He starred in "How to Make a Movie", a short film that was included in the "Vincent Price: Moviemaking the Hollywood Way", a home movie outfit sold by Sears, Roebuck and Company.
20. Price's second wife, Mary Grant, gave birth to his daughter Victoria Price on April 27, 1962.