[3][4][5] His father served as the president and vice chair of Spokane's Old National Bank and Union Trust Company [6] and following the death of his first wife married Neen Hawley McVey in 1910.
[10] After leaving Dartmouth, Vincent started his career as a stage actor, with his first role in Vanity Fair with Doris Keane in New York City in 1921,[11] followed by serving as an understudy to Noël Coward in The Vortex.
[2] He would appear in more than 25 films in the next decade, with his most notable role in 1933's Mystery of the Wax Museum, where he played lead actress Fay Wray's love interest.
[2] The film initially had poor reviews,[13] but since that time has received increasing praise from more contemporary critics like Leonard Maltin[14] and Dennis Schwartz.
[16] The screenplay he wrote with Irma von Cube was nominated for a 1949 Academy Award, but lost to John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.