Vincent Price(1911-1992) was born Vincent Leonard Price Junior in St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Vincent Sr., owned the National Candy Company. No intellectual slouch, Vincent (also known as Bink) graduated from Yale with a degree in Art History. In his early 20's, he left for Vienna to attend graduate school at the Courtauld Institute.

In Vienna he was bitten by the acting bug , appearing as the Judge in "Chigago". He must have been pretty good, because he soon appeared with Helen Hayes on Broadway in "Victoria Regina". In 1938, he went to Hollywood. Price appeared in over 100 movies .He played plenty of leading man roles, but he was best known for low-budget horror films. The best known was the 3-d horror movie House Of Wax"(1953). His final role was in Edward Scissorphands(1990).

Old-time radio fans know him as the suave Simon Templar in The Saint, a role he filled from 1947 until the series ended in 1951. Originally the ultimate Englishman, an early James Bond type created by the half-chinese Leslie Charteris Yin, the Saint on radio was a dapper New Yorker, the "Robin Hood of Modern Crime".

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