About Bela Lugosi
(from The Biography Channel) Bela Lugosi was born Be'la Dezso Blasko October 29, 1882 in Romania Bela Lugosi was the youngest of four children to be born into an upper middle-class family in Hungary. However, at the age of twelve he ran away and hoped to act. He found little work, other than in the mines or railroad yards, until one of his older sisters arrange for him to take some small roles in provincial theatre.
Formal training was the usual route for actors at this time, so Lugosi studied acting theory and method diligently.
Soon, Bela Lugosi was averaging thirty to forty roles per year, many of which were operettas, as he possessed a fine singing voice as a young man. In 1911, Lugosi went to work in the theatre in the capital city of Budapest, and gained much popularity.
When World War I broke out, although actors were exempt from military service, Bela volunteered to fight for his country and became an infantry lieutenant. He was wounded three times during the war, and decorated for his efforts, before leaving the army in 1916.
After the war, Bela Lugosi made several films under the name “Arisztidt Olt” until political turmoil in his own country forced him to move to Germany in 1919.
In 1921, Lugosi moved to New York, where he established a Hungarian-speaking troupe, as he himself still spoke no English. When, in 1923, he landed the role of Fernando in the Broadway production 'The Red Poppy', the actor learnt his lines phonetically.
The year 1927 saw Bela Lugosi cast as 'Dracula' for the first time in the original Broadway show of the same name, in which he starred for two years. He then went on to do other film roles, before taking his 'Dracula' to the silver screen in 1930.
Lugosi went on to star in several other vampire films, before returning to the role of Dracula for the last time in 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein', in 1948.
Bela Lugosi died a peaceful death in 1956, and was buried in full 'Dracula' costume. Bela Lugosi's vast filmography follows.

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Bela Lugosi Filmography

A Regiseggyujto (1917)
The Wedding Song (1917)
Leoni Leo (1917)
The Colonel (1917)
Spring Tempest (1918)
Lulu (1918)
The Leopard (1918)
Casanova (1918)
Masked Ball (1918)
Lili (1918)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1918)
99 (1918)
The Devil Worshippers (1920)
The Woman in the Dolphin (1920)
The Curse of the Man (1920)
Hypnosis (1920)
Dance on the Volcano (1920)
Nat Pinkerton in the Fight (1920)
The Two-Faced Man (1920)
The Deerslayer and the Chingachgook (1920)
In the Ecstasy of Billions (1920)
On the Brink of Paradise (1920)
Last of the Mohicans (1920)
Caravan of Death (1920)
John Hopkins the Third (1920)
Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin (1922)
The Silent Command (1923)
The Rejected Woman (1924)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Midnight Girl (1925)
Daughters Who Pay (1925)
Punchinello (1926)
How to Handle Women (1928)
The Veiled Woman (1929)
Prisoners (1929)
The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)
Wild Company (1930)
Renegades (1930)
Viennese Nights (1930)
Oh, for a Man (1930)
Dracula (1931)
Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931)
Women of All Nations (1931)
The Black Camel (1931)
Broadminded (1931)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
White Zombie (1932)
Chandu the Magician (serial, 1932)
The Death Kiss (1932)
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Whispering Shadow (1933)
Night of Terror (1933)
International House (1933)
The Devil's in Love (1933)
The Return of Chandu (serial, 1934)
The Black Cat (1934)
Gift of Gab (1934)
The Return of Chandu II(serial, 1934)
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
Chandu on the Magic Island (serial, 1935)
The Best Man Wins (1935)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1935)
Murder by Television (1935)
The Raven (1935)
The Invisible Ray (1936)
Postal Inspector (1936)
Shadow of Chinatown (1936)
S.O.S. Coast Guard (1937)
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
The Human Monster (1939)
The Gorilla (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Dark Eyes of London (1940)
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
Black Friday (1940)
The Devil Bat (1940)
You'll Find Out (1940)
Invisible Ghost (1941)
The Black Cat (1941)
Spooks Run Wild (1941)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Black Dragons (1942)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Night Monster (1942)
Bowery at midnight (1942)
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943)
The Ape Man (1943)
Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
The Return of the Vampire (1944)
One Body Too Many (1944)
Voodoo Man (1944)
Return of the Ape Man (1944)
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Genius at Work (1946)
Scared to Death (1947)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Bride of the Monster (1955)
The Black Sleep (1956)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

The use you, then they spit you out"...Bela Lugosi, of the movie industry.

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