Dead of the Nite

He was given a French script but the takes were so
bad, the entire performance was deemed unusable.
After working on the French script for over
three hours, sessions, gave him an English version
of the script. Craig Fleming, who adapted the script
and directed the recording Price recorded the entire
piece in two takes. The English recordings were
placed in the attraction, but after a few months of
operation, Euro Disney felt there was not enough
French in Euro Disneyland. So by 1993, in an
attempt to add more French to the park, Price's
narration was removed from the attraction and
replaced by the French spiel recorded by Gerard
Chevalier. Price's narration can be found on a Disney
Haunted Mansion CD. The CD, which contains a full ride-through of the attraction, claims Price's narration
was "never used at Disneyland Paris", but that's because the park was still called Euro Disneyland when
it was used. Today the park is now known as Parc Disneyland (as of 2002) and although his narration is long
gone, one part of his performance remains in Phantom Manor: his laugh. Although the spoken dialogue of
the Phantom character was changed, Price's original recordings of the Phantom's evil laughter still remain
intact, inside the attraction.
He would often attend showings of his films in costumes; often to play pranks on movie-goers. In his later
years, Price spoke out against modern horror films that glorified violence, pointing out that his films were
harmless spoofs by comparison. In the summer of 1977 he began performing, as Oscar Wilde, in the one
man stage play Diversions and Delights. Written by John Gay and directed by Joe Hardy, the play is set in a
Parisian theater, on a night about one year before Wilde's death. In an attempt to earn some much-needed
money, he is speaking to the audience about his life, his works and, in the second act, about his love for Lord
Alfred Douglas, which led to his downfall.
The original tour of the play was a success
in every city that it played, except for New
York City. In the summer of 1979 he performed
it at the Tabor Opera House in
Leadville, Colorado on the same stage that
Wilde had spoken to the miners about art
some 96 years before. Price would, eventually,
perform the play worldwide and to
many, including his daughter Victoria, it
was the best acting that he ever did. From
1981 to 1989, he hosted the PBS television
series Mystery!. His last significant
film work was as the inventor in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990).