Vincent Price, Actor: House of Usher. Actor, writer, and gourmet, Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was born in St Louis, Missouri. He traveled through Europe, studied at Yale and became an actor. He made his screen debut in 1938, and after many minor roles, he began to perform in low-budget horror movies such as De man met de wassen beelden (1953), achieving his first major success with House of Usher (1960). Known for his distinctive, ...