Vincent Price

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q219640: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by of 4 people by that name, the one in film or television.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Paths of Glory (1957); The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Count them as actor (3 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Humphrey Cobb: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as gallery co-owner with Macready: Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot.
    “Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as gallery co-owner with Macready: The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), which they were tied to as recorded as Santa, did not work out: Who Framed Roger Rabbit ⇒ The Nightmare Before Christmas (the host's read). Katzenberg was looking at Roger Rabbit's success as a reason to try different styles and techniques.
    “looking at the success they had with Roger Rabbit and saying, like, we should try different styles”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:29:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

David Simon: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as gallery co-owner with Macready: Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below.
    “this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

James and the Giant Peach (1996): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), which they were tied to as recorded as Santa, did not work out: The Nightmare Before Christmas ⇒ James and the Giant Peach (the host's read). The film's long tail made Disney try stop motion again, back to back with Peach, before Laika and others.
    “James and the Giant Peach is almost made like right back to back with this movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:40:45 · Michael Rianda (0.50 sure it was them)

The Wire (2002): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as gallery co-owner with Macready: Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (tell-tale casting): Black Bag → Vincent Price. Brosnan and Page show their hand early, like seeing Vincent Price in a movie and knowing he will do bad things.
    “sometimes you're watching a Vincent Price movie and you're like, well, Vincent Price is in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:58:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): George Macready → Vincent Price. Macready and Vincent Price were best friends who ran an art gallery in Beverly Hills.
    “he and Vincent Price were best friends, and the 2 of them in Beverly Hills owned an art gallery”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:02:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Vincent Price: Vincent Price was recorded as Santa but had just lost his wife and it didn't work; Don Ameche was 'insanely grouchy'; James Earl Jones shouted 'you don't know me'.
    “Vincent Price, uh, a hero of Tim Burton's”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:10:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)