Béla Lugosi
Béla Lugosi (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956) born in what is now Lugoj, Romania, was a Hungarian-American actor of the theatre and movies. He is best known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and the movie version. He was a character actor who played many different kinds of roles, but was most often seen in horror movies including White Zombie. He is one of the first actors to enter drug rehabilitation for a drug addiction. In the last years of his career he acted in several low-budget B-movies, some by director Ed Wood. He died in Los Angeles, California of a heart attack when he was 73 years old.
Bela Lugosi | |
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Born | Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó October 20, 1882 |
Died | August 16, 1956 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 73)
Resting place | Holy Cross Cemetery |
Other names | Arisztid Olt |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1902–1956 |
Spouse(s) | Ilona Szmick (m. 1917; div. 1920) Ilona von Montagh (m. 1921; div. 1924) Beatrice Weeks (m. 1929; div. 1929) Lillian Arch (m. 1933; div. 1953) Hope Lininger (m. 1955) |
Children | Bela George Lugosi |
Website | belalugosi |
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Bela G. Lugosi is his son.
Béla Lugosi Media
Lugosi as Count Dracula in 1931
Lugosi as the psychic Tarneverro, with Warner Oland, in The Black Camel (1931)
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Raven (1935)
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, Basil Rathbone as Dr. Frankenstein's son, and Lugosi as Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Lugosi in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Tor Johnson and Lugosi in Bride of the Monster (1956)
Other websites
- Béla Lugosi on IMDb