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- Nov. 08, 1993: Died:Vincent Price
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Nov. 08, 1993 Cloning Humans
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> DIED. VINCENT PRICE, 82, tall, erudite, suavely menacing character
- actor who delighted audiences in countless gothic horror films
- with his masterly tongue-in-cheek portrayals of assorted rogues,
- villains and madmen; in Los Angeles. Educated at Yale University
- and the University of London, Price began his acting career
- on the London stage in the mid-1930s and quickly moved to Broadway,
- to play opposite Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Many of his
- early films featured him in historical roles, including Sir
- Walter Raleigh (The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex), King
- Charles II (Hudson's Bay), William McAdoo (Wilson) and Cardinal
- Richelieu (The Three Musketeers). He also appeared in Laura.
- But it was in 1953 that he first established himself as the
- Olivier of ghoulery by playing a crazed sculptor in the 3-D
- thriller House of Wax. A succession of classic horror films
- followed, among them The Fly (1958) and, in the 1960s, a series
- of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations that included The House of Usher,
- The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death. More
- recently Price provided the voice of Professor Ratigan in the
- 1986 Disney animated movie The Great Mouse Detective and played
- the inventor in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands. He was host
- of the PBS series Mystery! and spoke the spectral narration
- in Michael Jackson's video Thriller. Price was also a noted
- art collector and a popular writer of art and cooking books.
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