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Vincent Price <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 St. Louis, Missouri – October 25, 1993) American actor, gourmet cook, and art expert who, after a brief flirtation with the genre in the late 1930s and early 1940s, reinvented the modern horror film with his portrayals of madmen and villains from the mid-1950s onwards, most notably in House of Wax (1953), The Fly (1958) and its sequel, William Castle’s The House on Haunted Hill (1958) and The Tingler (1959), and Roger Corman’s series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations for American International Pictures. Although he often allowed his performances to topple over into self-parody (both self-consciously and inadvertently), roles such as Verden Fell in The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) and Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm, 1968) proved what a fine actor he could be if given the opportunity. He portrayed the characters of Dr. Goldfoot and Dr. Phibes in two films apiece, and next to Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi no other actor has been so closely linked with the macabre. He once commented that Tim Burton was the first person who truly "got" what he was doing. His final film was as the gentle scientist-inventor who dies before he could fit regular hands on "Edward Scissorhands" (directed by Burton). Universes
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