"The Abominable Dr. Phibes The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a 1971 British comedy horror film, produced by Ronald S. Dunas and Louis M. Heyward, directed by Robert Fuest, written by William Goldstein and James Whiton, and starring Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten. Its art deco sets, dark humour and performance by Price have made the film and its sequel ""Dr. Phibes Rises Again"" cult classics. The film also features Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith, with an uncredited Caroline Munro appearing in still photographs as Phibes's wife. The film follows the title character, Dr. Anton Phibes, who blames the medical team that"
"of print. A sequel, ""Dr. Phibes Rises Again"", was released in 1972. It was also directed by Robert Fuest and stars Price as Phibes. Several other screenplays and sequels were proposed well into the 1980s featuring potential actors such as David Carradine, Roddy McDowall, and Orson Welles. The Abominable Dr. Phibes The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a 1971 British comedy horror film, produced by Ronald S. Dunas and Louis M. Heyward, directed by Robert Fuest, written by William Goldstein and James Whiton, and starring Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten. Its art deco sets, dark humour and performance by Price have"
"which he would have his only leading role opposite stars Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. In a part originally earmarked for Price, he played the disfigured Sir Edward Markham, acting underneath a red velvet hood until the film's climatic unmasking. Unfortunately his voice was deemed unsuitable and he was redubbed for the film's release, after which it was back to a supporting role in his next horror film, ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971). Alister Williamson Alister Williamson (17 June 1918 – 19 May 1999) was an Australian-born character actor, who appeared in many British films and television series of the"
"Dr. Phibes Rises Again Dr. Phibes Rises Again is a 1972 British horror-comedy film, produced by Louis M. Heyward, directed by Robert Fuest, that stars Vincent Price and Robert Quarry. The film is a sequel to ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971). After seeking vengeance on the men whom he blamed for his wife's death in the first film, Phibes returns to seek eternal life in Egypt, while he pursues a centuries-old man who holds the ancient secrets that Phibes needs. Following his murderous quest for vengeance in the previous film, Dr. Anton Phibes eludes capture by placing himself in suspended"
"including ""The Fly,"" ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes,"" and ""The Masque of the Red Death."" A black box theater at Price's alma mater, Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, is named after him. Director Tim Burton directed a short stop-motion film as a tribute to Vincent Price called ""Vincent,"" about a young boy named Vincent Malloy who is obsessed with the grim and macabre. It is narrated by Price. ""Vincent Twice, Vincent Twice"" was a parody on ""Sesame Street"". He was parodied in an episode of ""The Simpsons"" (""Sunday, Cruddy Sunday""). Price had his own ""Spitting Image"" puppet, who"
"as the narrating voice of the building. During the early 1970s, Price hosted and starred in BBC Radio's horror and mystery series ""The Price of Fear"". He accepted a cameo part in the Canadian children's television program ""The Hilarious House of Frightenstein"" (1971) in Hamilton, Ontario on the local television station CHCH. In addition to the opening and closing monologues, his role in the show was to recite poems about various characters, sometimes wearing a cloak or other costumes. Price appeared in ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971), its sequel ""Dr. Phibes Rises Again"" (1972), and ""Theatre of Blood"" (1973), in"
"Theatre of Blood Theatre of Blood (also known in the U.S. as Theater of Blood) is a 1973 British horror comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina. The cast includes distinguished actors Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Ian Hendry, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Joan Hickson, Robert Morley, Milo O'Shea, Diana Dors and Dennis Price. After being humiliated (as he perceives it) at a coveted awards ceremony, Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) is seen committing suicide by diving into the Thames from"
"""Vincent Price"" is dedicated to him. Price was a friend of the band and in 1975 he appeared on Roger Glover's live version of ""The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast"" as a narrator. Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures"
"is far more achieved"". The film score by John Gale was released on Perseverance Records 20 March 2003. The final song in the movie, ""Over the Rainbow,"" was written nearly a decade after the story's time frame. Dr. Phibes Rises Again Dr. Phibes Rises Again is a 1972 British horror-comedy film, produced by Louis M. Heyward, directed by Robert Fuest, that stars Vincent Price and Robert Quarry. The film is a sequel to ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971). After seeking vengeance on the men whom he blamed for his wife's death in the first film, Phibes returns to seek eternal"
"Vincent Price Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television. He was born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri and has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Price was an art collector and consultant with a degree"
"Dennis Price Dennis Price (born Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price) (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the film ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" (1949) and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's stories. Price was born Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price in Twyford in Berkshire, the son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price CMG DSO and his wife Dorothy, née Verey, daughter of Sir Henry Verey, Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature. He attended Copthorne Prep School, Radley"
"CBS and other networks (including some that first appeared as an ""ABC Movie of the Week""), and movies not well-suited for prime time due to content. (Violence was often the main factor, with true crime stories and police drama, and occasionally controversial subject matter, or strong suspense, horror, or sci-fi themes.) Among these were ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"", its sequel ""Dr. Phibes Rises Again"", and ""Theatre of Blood"" (all three of which starred Vincent Price), ""Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde"", ""The Valley of Gwangi"", ""7 Faces of Dr. Lao"", ""The Creeping Flesh"" (with the horror team of Peter Cushing and"
"acknowledging that the film thus had a very strong cast. Rigg introduced the couple, ignorant of the fact that Price was married. Theatre of Blood Theatre of Blood (also known in the U.S. as Theater of Blood) is a 1973 British horror comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina. The cast includes distinguished actors Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Ian Hendry, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Joan Hickson, Robert Morley, Milo O'Shea, Diana Dors and Dennis Price. After being humiliated (as he perceives"
"appearance. Her last and perhaps best-known role was as Vincent Price's silent assistant, the delectably deadly Vulnavia, in the horror comedy ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971). In 1974 North married the wealthy industrialist Gordon White. Later that year she gave birth to her only child, Lucas, who would later become a well-regarded polo player and one of the richest young men in the United Kingdom. When her husband was awarded a KBE in 1979 for services to British industry, becoming Sir Gordon White, Virginia White became Virginia, Lady White. She and White were divorced in 1991. She never remarried and"
"were in 1933, already approaching 50 years old. He made a total of about 150 films for various studios. Andrew Tombes Andrew Tombes (29 June 1885 – 17 March 1976) was an American comedian and character actor. The son of a grocer, originally from Ashtabula, Ohio, Tombes had a significant career as a vaudeville comic. By December 1914 he had appeared in the headlining act for the opening of the Kansas City Orpheum Theatre. He successfully ascended to Broadway comedies beginning in 1917, in the revue Miss 1917, and appeared there consistently through the 1920s, for instance in ""Poor Little"
"in the ""Motion Picture Herald"". Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including ""The Ladykillers"" and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" in which he played nine different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in ""Great Expectations"" (1946), Fagin in ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), Col. Nicholson in ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince"
"Jamie Foreman Jamie Foreman (born 25 May 1958) is an English actor best known for his roles as Duke in ""Layer Cake"" (2004) and Bill Sikes in Roman Polanski's ""Oliver Twist"" (2005). He played opposite Ray Winstone and Kathy Burke in Gary Oldman's ""Nil by Mouth"" (1997) and also featured in ""Elizabeth"" (1998), ""Gangster No. 1"" (2000) and ""Sleepy Hollow"" (1999). He appeared in the 2006 ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Idiot's Lantern"" and featured as a racist taxi driver in ""The Football Factory"" (2004). In the 2008 film ""Inkheart"" Foreman played Basta. He also appeared in one episode of """""
"The Statue (1971 film) The Statue is a 1971 British comedy film starring David Niven, Robert Vaughn, and Virna Lisi and directed by Rodney Amateau. Monty Python's John Cleese and Graham Chapman appear in early roles as the Niven character's psychiatrist and a newsreader, respectively. Niven plays a Nobel Prize-winning professor who suspects his wife, played by Lisi, of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognisably not his own. The film is based on the play called ""Chip, Chip, Chip"" by Alec Coppel. Professor Alex Bolt has developed a new universal language,"
"sequel ""The Return of Count Yorga"" (1971), and ""Dr. Phibes Rises Again"" (1972), in which he played alchemist Dr. Biederbeck pitted against Vincent Price's Phibes in a race to find the mythical elixir of eternal life. Price reportedly did not care for his co-star — once, when Quarry was singing in his dressing room during the making of ""Dr Phibes Rises Again"", he said to Price, ""You didn't know I could sing did you?"" and Price replied: ""Well I knew you couldn't act"" — the duo were later also paired in ""Madhouse"" (1974). American International Pictures had plans for Quarry"
"Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including ""The Ladykillers"" and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" in which he played nine different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in ""Great Expectations"" (1946), Fagin in ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), Col. Nicholson in ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in ""Lawrence of Arabia"""
"Rum. In January 1972, it was reported by UPI that Kemp had been cast in a supporting role in the forthcoming sequel to ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"", which had starred Vincent Price in the title role and Virginia North as his silent assistant, Vulnavia. As the latter character had been killed off at the end of the first film, the draft screenplay for the sequel intended to introduce an entirely new character as Phibe's assistant. This was revised when the film studio, AIP, insisted that the name Vulnavia be retained. North had since become pregnant and was therefore unable to"
"Oliver Reed Robert Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 – 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image, hellraiser lifestyle, and ""tough guy"" roles. Notable films include ""The Trap"" (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner ""Oliver!"" (1968), ""Women in Love"" (1969), ""Hannibal Brooks"" (1969), ""The Devils"" (1971), portraying Athos in ""The Three Musketeers"" (1973), ""Tommy"" (1975), ""Lion of the Desert"" (1981), ""Castaway"" (1986), ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" (1988) and ""Funny Bones"" (1995). For playing Antonius Proximo, an old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's ""Gladiator"" (2000) in what was his"
"Bernard Cribbins Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE (born 29 December 1928) is an English character actor, comedy actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over seventy years. He came to prominence in films of the 1960s, and has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid-1950s. Cribbins narrated ""The Wombles"", a BBC children's television programme that ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1975, and played the pretentious guest Mr. Hutchinson in ""The Hotel Inspectors"" episode of ""Fawlty Towers"" (1975), and the belligerent barman in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Frenzy"" (1972). He also recorded several successful novelty"
"1967 at the Stuttgart State Theatre. Condensing the three plays into two, ""Heinrich VI"" and ""Eduard IV"", Palitzsch's adaptation concluded with the opening monologue from ""Richard III"". The only cinematic adaptation of the play came in the 1973 horror comedy film ""Theatre of Blood"", directed by Douglas Hickox. Vincent Price stars in the film as Edward Lionheart, (self)regarded as the finest Shakespearean actor of all time. When he fails to be awarded the prestigious Critic's Circle Award for Best Actor, he sets out exacting bloody revenge on the critics who gave him poor reviews, with each act inspired by a"
"one-hour stories. In 1972, Cushing appeared alongside Vincent Price in ""Dr. Phibes Rises Again!"", a sequel to the previous year's ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"", and then co-starred with Price again in the 1974 film ""Madhouse"". Cushing continued to appear in several Amicus Productions films during this period, including ""Tales from the Crypt"" (1972), ""From Beyond the Grave"" (1973), ""And Now the Screaming Starts!"" (1973), and ""The Beast Must Die"" (1974). For ""Tales from the Crypt"", an anthology film made up of several horror segments, Cushing was offered the part of a ruthless businessman but did not like the part and"
"(making certain changes in the story's ending). The Comedy of Terrors The Comedy of Terrors is an American International Pictures horror comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and (in a cameo) Joe E. Brown in his final film appearance. It is a blend of comedy and horror which features several cast members from ""Tales of Terror"", made by AIP the year before. In the New England town of New Gilead during the late 19th century, an unscrupulous drunkard named Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) runs the funeral parlor he acquired from"
"psychotic or nobility member, appearing in about 100 westerns and 39 serials. His flair for comedy also was well represented in the film ""Road to Morocco"", as the blithering idiot in the opening bazaar scene, as well in The Three Stooges films ""Punchy Cowpunchers"", ""Dopey Dicks"" and ""Studio Stoops"". He also had at least 18 dialogue director credits for Lippert Studios. Price died of a heart attack in Garden Grove, California at age 62. He was buried in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery. Stanley Price Stanley Price (December 31, 1892July 13, 1955) was an American film supporting actor who appeared in over 200"
"Hospital Medical Center. He was survived by his wife, Kit, a brother and a sister. Vince Barnett Vince Barnett (July 4, 1902 – August 10, 1977) was an American film actor. He appeared on stage originally before appearing in more than 400 films between 1930 and 1975. Barnett was born July 4, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Luke Barnett, a well-known comedian who specialized in insulting and pulling practical jokes on his audiences. (Luke's professional nickname was ""Old Man Ribber"" and ""the King of Ribbing"".) Barnett graduated from Duquesne University Prep School and Carnegie Institute of Technology. An"
"1985, she remarried and had three children. Valli Kemp Valli Kemp (born 19 November 1950) is an Australian former model and actress turned fashion designer, painter and art teacher. She is best known for her involvement in several high-profile beauty contests in the early 1970s, and for her memorable role in the cult 1972 horror film ""Dr. Phibes Rises Again"", in which she appeared opposite Vincent Price as the murderous doctor's silent assistant and accomplice, Vulnavia. By her own account, Valli Kemp was born in Kenya to British parents. During the Mau Mau Uprising of the 1950s, Kemp's father ""lost"
"Edward Burnham Edward Burnham (25 December 1916 – 30 June 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned over 60 years. Burnham was born in Lincolnshire, England, 25 December 1916. Burnham is best known for the films ""To Sir, with Love"" (1967), ""The Abominable Dr. Phibes"" (1971) and ""10 Rillington Place"" (1971), and for twice appearing in ""Doctor Who"" in ""The Invasion"" (1968) and ""Robot"" (1974/5). His other television roles include ""Z-Cars"", ""The Saint"", ""The Avengers"", ""The Troubleshooters"", ""Special Branch"", ""Crown Court"", ""Thriller"", ""Rumpole of the Bailey"", ""Crossroads"", ""Tales of the Unexpected"", ""The Gentle Touch"", ""All Creatures Great and Small"","
"Actor. In 1989, Price was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. His last significant film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990). In 1992, Price recorded the narration for Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor, but the narration was shortly removed and replaced with an narration entirely in French by Gérard Chevalier. But they had left in Vincent Price's infamous laughter as a tribute to Price. However, in 2018, it was announced that during the renovation, they will be adding back Price's narration into the attraction. Price, who studied Art History (along with English) at Yale"
"Cliff Nazarro Cliff Nazarro (January 31, 1904 – February 18, 1961) was a popular double-talk comedian of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in movies such as ""You'll Never Get Rich"" (1941) as Swivel Tongue with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, In Old Colorado (1941) as Nosey Haskins with William Boyd, and ""Hillbilly Blitzkrieg"" (1942) as Barney Google. A comment in a 1942 newspaper article summed up Nazarro's varied talents: ""He played all sorts of roles in stock companies, was a versatile actor in musical comedy and vaudeville, is one of the top masters-of-ceremony in show business, and was a"
"The Comedy of Terrors The Comedy of Terrors is an American International Pictures horror comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and (in a cameo) Joe E. Brown in his final film appearance. It is a blend of comedy and horror which features several cast members from ""Tales of Terror"", made by AIP the year before. In the New England town of New Gilead during the late 19th century, an unscrupulous drunkard named Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) runs the funeral parlor he acquired from his former business partner Amos Hinchley (Boris"