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.
 * 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.