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Bela Lugosi is a Actor American born on 17 october 1882 at Lugoj (Roumanie)
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.
He had been playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary before making his first film in 1917, but had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Revolution. He had roles in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in America as a seaman on a merchant ship.
In 1927, he appeared as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, where he was talent-spotted as a character actor for the new Hollywood talkies. He later appeared in the classic 1931 film Dracula by Universal Pictures. Through the 1930s, he occupied an important niche in popular horror films, with their East European setting, but his Hungarian accent limited his repertoire, and he tried unsuccessfully to avoid typecasting.
Meanwhile, he was often paired with Boris Karloff, who was able to demand top billing. To his frustration, Lugosi was increasingly restricted to minor parts, kept employed by the studio principally for the sake of his name on the posters. Among his pairings with Karloff, only in The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939) did he perform major roles again, and, even in The Raven, Karloff received top billing despite Lugosi performing the lead role.
By this time, Lugosi had been receiving regular medication for sciatic neuritis, and he became addicted to morphine and methadone. This drug dependence was noted by producers, and the offers eventually dwindled down to a few parts in Ed Wood's low-budget movies, most notably Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Lugosi was married five times, and had one son, Bela George Lugosi.
Bela Lugosi was a charter member of the American Screen Actors Guild.
In 1929, Lugosi took his place in Hollywood society and scandal when he married wealthy San Francisco widow Beatrice Weeks, but she filed for divorce four months later. Weeks cited actress Clara Bow as the "other woman".
In 1933 he married 19-year-old Lillian Arch, the daughter of Hungarian immigrants. They had a child, Bela G. Lugosi, in 1938.
Lillian and Bela, as well as his mother, vacationed on their lake property in the Southern California community of Lake Elsinore (then called Elsinore) on two lots between 1944 and 1953. Bela Lugosi Jr., attended the Elsinore Naval & Military School in Lake Elsinore. Lillian and Béla divorced in 1953, at least partially because of Béla's jealousy over Lillian taking a full-time job as an assistant to Brian Donlevy on the sets and studios for Donlevy's radio and television series Dangerous Assignment — Lillian eventually did marry Brian Donlevy, in 1966.
Lugosi married Hope Lininger, his fifth wife, in 1955. She had been a fan of his, writing letters to him when he was in the hospital recovering from addiction to Demerol. She would sign her letters 'A dash of Hope'. She was his widow, and died in 1997 at age 77.
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Birth name Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó
Nationality USA
Birth 17 october 1882 at Lugoj (Roumanie)
Death 16 august 1956 (at 73 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 17 october 1882 at Lugoj (Roumanie)
Death 16 august 1956 (at 73 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.
He had been playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary before making his first film in 1917, but had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Revolution. He had roles in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in America as a seaman on a merchant ship.
In 1927, he appeared as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, where he was talent-spotted as a character actor for the new Hollywood talkies. He later appeared in the classic 1931 film Dracula by Universal Pictures. Through the 1930s, he occupied an important niche in popular horror films, with their East European setting, but his Hungarian accent limited his repertoire, and he tried unsuccessfully to avoid typecasting.
Meanwhile, he was often paired with Boris Karloff, who was able to demand top billing. To his frustration, Lugosi was increasingly restricted to minor parts, kept employed by the studio principally for the sake of his name on the posters. Among his pairings with Karloff, only in The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939) did he perform major roles again, and, even in The Raven, Karloff received top billing despite Lugosi performing the lead role.
By this time, Lugosi had been receiving regular medication for sciatic neuritis, and he became addicted to morphine and methadone. This drug dependence was noted by producers, and the offers eventually dwindled down to a few parts in Ed Wood's low-budget movies, most notably Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Lugosi was married five times, and had one son, Bela George Lugosi.
Bela Lugosi was a charter member of the American Screen Actors Guild.
Biography
In 1917, Lugosi married Ilona Szmik. The couple divorced in 1920, reputedly over political differences with her parents.In 1929, Lugosi took his place in Hollywood society and scandal when he married wealthy San Francisco widow Beatrice Weeks, but she filed for divorce four months later. Weeks cited actress Clara Bow as the "other woman".
In 1933 he married 19-year-old Lillian Arch, the daughter of Hungarian immigrants. They had a child, Bela G. Lugosi, in 1938.
Lillian and Bela, as well as his mother, vacationed on their lake property in the Southern California community of Lake Elsinore (then called Elsinore) on two lots between 1944 and 1953. Bela Lugosi Jr., attended the Elsinore Naval & Military School in Lake Elsinore. Lillian and Béla divorced in 1953, at least partially because of Béla's jealousy over Lillian taking a full-time job as an assistant to Brian Donlevy on the sets and studios for Donlevy's radio and television series Dangerous Assignment — Lillian eventually did marry Brian Donlevy, in 1966.
Lugosi married Hope Lininger, his fifth wife, in 1955. She had been a fan of his, writing letters to him when he was in the hospital recovering from addiction to Demerol. She would sign her letters 'A dash of Hope'. She was his widow, and died in 1997 at age 77.
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Filmography of Bela Lugosi (113 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. | Actor | Himself (archive footage) |
| 1994 | Ed Wood | Actor | (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles | Actor | Count Dracula (Archive Footage) |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
| 1974 | Madhouse | Actor | (archive footage) |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
| 1965 | The World of Abbott and Costello | Actor | Count Dracula (archive footage) |
| 1959 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | Actor | Ghoul Man |
| 1956 | The Black Sleep | Actor | Casimir |
| 1955 | Bride of the Monster | Actor | Dr. Eric Vornoff |
| 1953 | Glen or Glenda | Actor | Scientist |
| 1952 | Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla | Actor | Dr. Zabor |
| 1952 | Mother Riley Meets the Vampire | Actor | Von Housen |
| 1948 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein | Actor | Count Dracula |
| 1947 | Scared to Death | Actor | Prof Leonide |
| 1946 | Genius at Work | Actor | Stone |
| 1945 | The Body Snatcher | Actor | Joseph |
| 1945 | Zombies on Broadway | Actor | Dr. Paul Renault |
| 1944 | Voodoo Man | Actor | Dr. Richard Marlowe |
| 1944 | One Body Too Many | Actor | Murkil |
| 1943 | The Ape Man | Actor | Dr. James Brewster |
| 1943 | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man | Actor | The Frankenstein Monster |
| 1943 | Ghosts on the Loose | Actor | Emil |
| 1943 | The Return of the Vampire | Actor | Armand Tesla |
| 1943 | Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform | Actor | Himself |
| 1942 | Black Dragons | Actor | Dr. Melcher/ Monsieur Colomb |
| 1942 | The Ghost of Frankenstein | Actor | Ygor |
| 1942 | Bowery at Midnight | Actor | Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner |
| 1942 | The Corpse Vanishes | Actor | Dr. Lorenz |
| 1942 | Night Monster | Actor | Rolf |
| 1941 | The Wolf Man | Actor | Bela |
| 1941 | The Black Cat | Actor | Eduardo Vidos |
| 1941 | Invisible Ghost | Actor | Dr. Charles Kessler |
| 1941 | Spooks Run Wild | Actor | Nardo |
| 1940 | Fantasia | Actor | Chernabog (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Black Friday | Actor | Eric Marnay |
| 1940 | The Devil Bat | Actor | Dr. Paul Carruthers |
| 1940 | The Saint's Double Trouble | Actor | Partner |
| 1940 | You'll Find Out | Actor | Prince Saliano |
| 1939 | Ninotchka | Actor | Commissar Razinin |
| 1939 | Son of Frankenstein | Actor | Ygor |
| 1939 | The Human Monster | Actor | Dr. Feodor Orloff / Prof. John Dearborn |
| 1939 | The Gorilla | Actor | Peters - the Butler |
| 1939 | The Phantom Creeps | Actor | Dr. Alex Zorka / Dr. Zane |
| 1937 | SOS Coast Guard | Actor | Boroff |
| 1936 | The Invisible Ray | Actor | Dr. Felix Benet |
| 1936 | Postal Inspector | Actor | Gregory Benez |
| 1936 | Shadow of Chinatown | Actor | Victor Poten |
| 1935 | The Mysterious Mr. Wong | Actor | Mr. Fu Wong aka Lysee |
| 1935 | Mark of the Vampire | Actor | Count Mora |
| 1935 | Murder by Television | Actor | Arthur Perry |
| 1935 | The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | Actor | Anton Lorenzen |
| 1935 | The Raven | Actor | Dr. Richard Vollin |
| 1934 | The Black Cat | Actor | Dr. Vitus Werdegast |
| 1934 | Gift of Gab | Actor | Himself |
| 1934 | The Return of Chandu | Actor | Frank Chandler (Chandu) |
| 1933 | Hollywood on Parade No. A-8 | Actor | Dracula |
| 1933 | International House | Actor | General Petronovich |
| 1933 | Night of Terror | Actor | Degar |
| 1933 | The Whispering Shadow | Actor | Professor Adam Anton Strang |
| 1933 | The Devil's in Love | Actor | Military Prosecutor |
| 1932 | White Zombie | Actor | Legendre |
| 1932 | Chandu the Magician | Actor | Roxor |
| 1932 | The Death Kiss | Actor | Joseph Steiner |
| 1932 | Island of Lost Souls | Actor | The Sayer of the Law |
| 1932 | Murders in the Rue Morgue | Actor | Dr. Mirakle |
| 1932 | Hollywood on Parade | Actor | |
| 1931 | The Black Camel | Actor | Tarneverro |
| 1931 | Dracula | Actor | Count Dracula |
| 1931 | Drácula | Actor | Count Dracula (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1931 | 50 Million Frenchmen | Actor | Orizon - Magician |
| 1931 | Women of All Nations | Actor | Prince Hassan |
| 1931 | Broadminded | Actor | Pancho Arango |
| 1930 | Oh, for a Man! | Actor | Frescatti |
| 1930 | King of Jazz | Actor | Emcee - Hungarian Version |
| 1930 | Renegades | Actor | The Marabout - Sheik Muhammed Halid |
| 1930 | Viennese Nights | Actor | Count von Ratz--Hungarian Ambassador |
| 1930 | Wild Company | Actor | Felix Brown |
| 1930 | Such Men Are Dangerous | Actor | Dr. Goodman |
| 1929 | The Last Performance | Actor | (voice) |
| 1929 | The Thirteenth Chair | Actor | Inspector Delzante |
| 1929 | The Veiled Woman | Actor | Murdered Suitor |
| 1925 | Daughters Who Pay | Actor | Serge Romonsky |
| 1925 | The Midnight Girl | Actor | Nicholas Harmon |
| 1924 | The Rejected Woman | Actor | Jean Gagnon |
| 1924 | He Who Gets Slapped | Actor | |
| 1923 | The Silent Command | Actor | Hisston |
| 1922 | Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin | Actor | |
| 1921 | John Hopkins the Third | Actor | |
| 1920 | The Last of the Mohicans | Actor | |
| 1920 | Caravan of Death | Actor | Scheik |
| 1920 | The Curse of Man | Actor | |
| 1920 | Daughter of the Night | Actor | Andrew Fleurot |
| 1920 | Deerslayer | Actor | Chingachgook |
| 1920 | The Devil Worshippers | Actor | |
| 1920 | The Head of Janus | Actor | Warren's Butler |
| 1920 | Hypnosis | Actor | Professor Mors |
| 1920 | Daughter of the Night 2 | Actor | Andrew Fleurot |
| 1920 | The Last of the Mohicans | Actor | Chingachgook |
| 1920 | Nat Pinkerton in the Fight | Actor | |
| 1920 | On the Brink of Paradise | Actor | |
| 1920 | The Woman in the Dolphin | Actor | Tom Bill |
| 1919 | Casanova | Actor | (as Olt Arisztid) |
| 1918 | 99 | Actor | |
| 1918 | The Leopard | Actor | Orlay Pál,építész (as Arisztid Olt) |
| 1918 | Lili | Actor | Plinchard / General (as Arisztid Olt) |
| 1918 | Lulu | Actor | |
| 1918 | The Royal Life | Actor | Lord Henry Wotton |
| 1917 | The Colonel | Actor | |
| 1917 | Leoni Leo | Actor | Leoni Leo (as Arisztid Olt) |
| 1917 | A Régiséggyüjtö | Actor | |
| 1917 | The Wedding Song | Actor | Bertram |
| - | Masked Ball | Actor |