Bela Lugosi

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Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), better known by his stage name Béla Lugosi was a Hungarian–American actor. He is best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic Dracula (1931), Ygor in both Son of Frankenstein (1939) and Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956. Lugosi began acting on the Hungarian stage in 1901, appearing in more than 170 productions. Beginning in 1917, he performed in Hungarian silent films. During World War I, he served as a corporal (in german: zugsführer; in hungarian: szakaszvezető) in the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1916. After the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919, Lugosi chose to immigrate to Germany due to his Socialist party activities. He acted in several films in Weimar Germany, before arriving in New Orleans as a seaman on a merchant ship, then making his way north to New York City and Ellis Island. In 1927, he starred as Dracula in...

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