Bela Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 - 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian 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 Communist Revolution of 1919. He had roles in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in the United States as a seaman on a merchant ship.
In 1927, he appeared as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel. 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.
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'Bela Lugosi in The Ape Man' 1943 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Ape Man' 1943 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat' 1934 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat' 1934 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat' 1934 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Black Dragons' 1942 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Black Sleep' 1956 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Bride of the Monster' 1955 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Bride of the Monster' 1955 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Devil Bat' 1940 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Devil Bat' 1940 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Dracula' 1931 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Dracula' 1931 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Dracula' 1931 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man' 1943 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Ghost of Frankenstein' 1942 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Glen or Glenda' 1953 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Glen or Glenda' 1953 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Human Monster' 1939 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Human Monster' 1939 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Invisible Ghost' 1941 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Night Monster' 1942 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Phantom Creeps' 1939 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Phantom Creeps' 1939 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space' 1959 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 from Outer Space' 1959 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Return of the Ape Man' 1944 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Return of the Vampire' 1944 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Return of the Vampire' 1944 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Return of the Vampire' 1944 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Return of the Vampire' 1944 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Shadow of Chinatown' 1936 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Shadow of Chinatown' 1936 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Corpse Vanishes' 1942 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Corpse Vanishes' 1942 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Whispering Shadow' 1933 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Whispering Shadow' 1933 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Whispering Shadow' 1933 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in White Zombie' 1932 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in White Zombie' 1932 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in White Zombie' 1932 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat' 1934 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Black Dragons' 1942 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in The Black Sleep' 1956 £6.99
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'Bela Lugosi in Bride of the Monster' 1955 £6.99