Vincent Price once played Matthew Hopkins in a movie. Ace saw the film and noted that Hopkins actually looked a bit like Price. (PROSE: The Devil Like a Bear)
Behind the scenes
- The film in question is Witchfinder General.
- Price, along with Peter Cushing, was one of the horror movie icons Christopher Barry considered for the role of Mehendri Solon in The Brain of Morbius. (TCH 24)
- Vincent Price was the first choice to play the eponymous Scratchman in the never-made Doctor Who Meets Scratchman.