Price, Vincent

Examples Bela Lugosi is more handsome than Lon Chaney but less handsome than Vincent Price. 

Murray A, Simms MS, Scholfield DP, Vincent RM, Denton G, Bishop MC, Price MR, Perkins AC... 

In the world of cinema, Poe is probably best known through the works of American actor Vincent Price. Indeed, as Ron Haydock has noted, It s difficult anymore not to think of Vincent Price whenever anybody, for whatever reason, even mentions the name of Edgar Allan Poe. While such a comment may be less true today than it was in the 1970s, Price still seems intimately linked to Poe and the movies, and indeed to Poe and popular culture, perhaps more than any other person. From i960 to 1970 Price starred in eleven Poe films, which were produced by American International Pictures and directed, for the most part, by Roger Corman. 5 Haydock finds the Corman films particularly notable for the dream sequences usually bizarre, camera-distorted scenes that actually came the closest in any of the... 

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