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  Bela Lugosi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lugosi emigrated to the United States in 1921 and on June 26, 1931 became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Bela Lugosi was buried wearing one of the many capes from the Dracula stageplay, as per the request of his son and fifth wife, in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Lugosi is mentioned prominently in the song Celluloid Heroes by the Kinks.
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 Bela Lugosi Biography / Filmography at Vlads Vault
Bela Lugosi was born Béla Ferenc Deszö Blaskó on October 20, 1882, in Lugos, Hungary.
Bela ran away to the city of Resita at the age of eleven, never returning again to his hometown.
Bela died at the age of 73, on August 16, 1956.
www.vladsvault.com /_bio_Lugosi_bela.htm   (825 words)

  
 Bela Lugosi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bela Lugosi created the image of a vampire for most people through his portrayal of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Bela was born Bela Blasko in Lugos, Hungary, some 50 miles from Transylvania.
Lugosi was somewhat insulted when he was not given the part automatically.
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 Bela Lugosi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bela Lugosi is best known as for his performances as Dracula, and for his many horror film roles.
Lugosi was a classically trained actor in his native Hungary, appearing on stage and in films as a romantic leading man from 1901 to 1919.
Lugosi's Dracula was a high-powered, magnetic mix of smoldering sexuality and terror, and critics compared him to Rudolph Valentino.
www.cemeteryguide.com /lugosi.html   (446 words)

  
 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : bela lugosi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bela Lugosi was a classicly trained stage actor who was at the top of his craft in his native Hungary and was at one time officially recognized as the top actor in the theatre system there.
BELA tried to come to terms with his addiction to morphine, and, in a highly publicized rehabilitation, he checked himself in to a treatment center, when such bravery was a scandalous 'taboo' to the furtherance of anyones' film career goal.
Bela Lugosi was a great horror legand when he played Dracula he added a bit of sex appeal to the horror of th immortal Count, In pictures it's easy to see that his eyes had some mysterious allure to them and he was not to forget hot!!!!.
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 Bela Lugosi: Horror Maestro + Vampires Then and Now
At one point in the mid-1930s Lugosi received as much fan mail from female admirers as did Clark Gable and this is doubly interesting since Lugosi worked mainly in horror films and at the time he was past 50 years of age.
Bela Lugosi was born in Transylvania in the Hungarian town of Lugos, as Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882.
Lugosi's most famous role with his definitive interpretation of the Count, ditto Frye as looney Renfield and Van Sloan as unflappable Professor Van Helsing.
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 Bela Lugosi
We see Bela screaming inside the room, then the movie cuts away to the next room.
Bela's body is shown again later on when Henry Daniell discovers it in a vat of water in Henry's laboratory.
He is later brought back to life by the aliens' ray, but dies once again (transforming into a skeleton) when the aliens are defeated.
www.geocities.com /cinemorgue2/belalugosi.html   (371 words)

  
 Bela Lugosi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bela Lugosi was born Bela Blasko on Oct. 20, 1882, in what was then Lugos, Hungary.
Lugosi's heavy accent, white tie and tails, and fl opera cape would from that point on personify the Dracula image.
Lugosi resurrects his role as Dracula, and Chaney is once again the Wolf Man. Glenn Strange portrays The Monster this time around.
www.cco.caltech.edu /~erikr/Art/BelaLugosi.html   (916 words)

  
 BELA LUGOSI
Bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides at the alter and uses them to help restore his aging wife's former beauty, (she's a real bitch, too.
Bela has a pseudo vampire role in this story about a creepy old dark house that's invaded by a gang of kids in the dark of the night.
Bela brings to his part a certain intensity that hadn't been seen since his performances of the early 1930s.
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 BELA LUGOSI FILMOGRAPHY
Lugosi convincingly portrays the role of the battered and abused seaman.
Lugosi, as was usually his technique in these films, played his role pretty straight, sometimes exagerrating the traits he was famous for, and serving as an effective foil for the comics.
Lugosi had become dependent on prescription narcotics and alcohol after his divorce from Lillian in 1953, and his condition deteriorated dramatically during the filming of this movie, which was stretched out over a year due to financial constraints.
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 THE WEBWORLD OF BELA LUGOSI
Lugosi was born in Lugos, in the Southwest portion of what was then the Kingdom of Hungary.
It was in Szabadka that Lugosi got his first opportunity on the stage - as a chorus boy in an operetta, which was produced in the Nepszinhaz, or People's Theatre.
By 1903, Lugosi was appearing at the Ferenc Jozsef Szinhaz (Franz Joseph Theatre) in Temesvar, the capital of Lugosi's home province of the Banat.
users.auracom.com /tournier/webworld.htm   (1130 words)

  
 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
The band's debt to the nihilistic mood and not-to-be-ignored style of David Bowie was publicly acknowledged through their 1982 cover of Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust," the band's biggest UK hit at number 15.
But the group's most memorable track has to be one of their earliest, 1979's "Bela Lugosi's Dead." This eight-minute-plus gothic anthem provided much of the tension for the powerful opening to Bowie's 1983 vampire flick "The Hunger," and even today remains a favorite of late night radio.
White on white translucent fl capes Back on the rack Bela Lugosi's dead The bats have left the bell tower The victims have been bled Red velvet lines the fl box Bela lugosi's dead Undead undead undead...
www.80smusiclyrics.com /artists/bauhaus.htm   (421 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Bela Lugosi Collection (Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven / The Invisible Ray / ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lugosi's career was on a steady downward slide by this point (with few exceptions like "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein") and would continue to decline through the next decade until his death in the mid-1950s.
Lugosi plays a mad doctor in his worst, hammiest manner and Karloff is wasted in support.
Lugosi was also a bad judge of scripts and did not distinguish between working for major studios and picking up a paycheck from poverty row studios.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009X770E?v=glance   (2752 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bela Lugosi: Human Monster (1940) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Lugosi is really quite good here, and the whole thing is set in an eerie, impoverished home for the blind...this creates a dark, disorienting, atmosphere of helplessness.
Lugosi's creepy man/beast henchman is the stuff of children's nightmares....
Though Lugosi has his charisma (and it's kind of a guilty pleasure to see him goofily play a blind character), the pace is agonizingly slow and I saw the 'surprise' ending coming from a mile away.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000067JAX?v=glance   (1258 words)

  
 The Garage Kits Of Bela Lugosi
s a huge fan of Bela Lugosi, I thought it might be interesting to chronicle all the garage kits he has been the subject of.
When one thinks of Lugosi, the image of his intense malevolent Dracula comes to mind - and this is basically where the story begins.
Monstrology Models was the first to render a bust of Bela with a 1/6 scale study of Lugosi from "The Ape Man".
www.gremlins.com /jon_wang/lugosi.html   (624 words)

  
 DVD Empire - Item - Bela Lugosi Collection 2 / DVD-Video
In one of his finest roles ever, Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a zombie master who exercises supernatural powers over newlyweds in Haiti.
Lugosi plays Dr. James Brewster, a crazed scientist who transformed himself into an ape man. The only antidote is human spinal fluid, and it's up to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find a donor.
Harry Ritz's impersonation of co-star Bela Lugosi is priceless in this Ritz Brothers comedy of Ralph Spence's stage mystery-comedy.
www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=39912&partner_id=29346865   (231 words)

  
 CLASSIC CULT FILMS STARRING BELA LUGOSI on video available from The New York Film Annex
Be!a Lugosi stars as a man under the hypnotic control of his criminally insane wife who makes him do her evil bidding...murder and madness soon follow.
Lugosi spends most of his time looking out of windows and there are tons of closeups of his hypnotized eves!
Lugosi stars as one of the seamen, a man deformed physically and mentally by the cruel treatment of the ship's Captain.
www.nyfavideo.com /content/cat-LUGOSI.htm   (335 words)

  
 Archive Photos: Bela Lugosi@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Only Bela Lugosi could look sinister in a bow tie.
Lugosi won the part of Dracula on Broadway in the 1920s and reprised the role on film a few years later.
Dracula was both a blessing and a curse to Lugosi: it made his career, yet he was forever typecast as a sinister and brooding character.
www.highbeam.com /doc/1P1:30439849/Bela+Lugosi.html?refid=ip_hf   (149 words)

  
 Rather Grim Tales...The Bela Lugosi FanListing
In 1931, this intense actor sparked the classic horror film dynasty when he defined for all time the character of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
While the shadow of this role hung over Bela Lugosi for the rest of his life, he gave many other memorable performances to the horror genre.
This fanlisting is intended to honor this talented man who, although so often underappreciated during his life, has a legacy as immortal as Dracula himself.
jordanna.net /fan/lugosi   (83 words)

  
 Universal Studios Monsters - Dracula Bela Lugosi toys Cryptoys.com
This 7" tall action figure features Bela Lugosi as Dracula and is fully licensed by the Lugosi estate.
So sit back...relax..fall asleep and enjoy Bela, bats, a musical zombie interlude, and yes "zany antics" in the hip crypt of Doktor Goulfinger.
This 6" tall action figure features Bela Lugosi as Dracula and is fully licensed by the Lugosi estate.
www.cryptoys.com /Pages/universal.monsters.dracula.htm   (1314 words)

  
 bela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Elvira - Edgar Allan Poe - Boris Karloff - Bela Lugosi
Although Bela will obviously be best remembered for his performance as the silver screen's first official Dracula, Bela has done so much more to develop horror for us all.
A Special Thanks to The Uptown Guy for bringing to our attention via Richard Bojarski's book "The Films of Bela Lugosi" some early films that Bela stared in.
www.dagonbytes.com /film/fame/belafilms.htm   (274 words)

  
 DVD Times - The Bela Lugosi Collection in September
Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Bela Lugosi Collection for 6th September 2005 priced at $26.98 SRP.
a Bela Lugosi collection seemed likely, since he was in the majority of the ones still unreleased.
Finally a Bela release that is not a public domain cheapy.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57386   (1127 words)

  
 Bela Lugosi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Born Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary.
Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Bela Lugosi
Find where Bela Lugosi is credited alongside another name
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 Bela Lugosi Current Month TV Schedule
Click here for MeeVee's next 12 days of Local Television Schedules for Bela Lugosi.
Interviewed: Bela Lugosi Jr.; Martin Landau ('Ed Wood').
Starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Bela Lugosi, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Gregory Gaye, Richard Carle, Edwin Maxwell.
www.tv-now.com /stars/bela.html   (133 words)

  
 ! vincent price, b movies, film noir, bela lugosi, boris karloff, peter cushing, christopher lee, barbara steele !   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
vincent price, b movies, film noir, bela lugosi, boris karloff, peter cushing, christopher lee, barbara steele !
Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Barbara Steele are just a few of the stars whose films we specialize in.
If you’re looking for rare, nostalgic titles in genres like horror, sci-fi, film noir, B westerns, sword and sandal, and other related genres then you’ve come to the right place.
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 Bela Lugosi Collection - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bela Lugosi Collection - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
Five films featuring one of history's most enduring horror stars are contained in THE BELA LUGOSI COLLECTION.
Included are MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, THE BLACK CAT, THE RAVEN, THE INVISIBLE RAY, and BLACK FRIDAY.
www.smarter.com /movies-4/product/bela_lugosi_collection-232889   (132 words)

  
 Béla Lugosi Filmography
Filmography adapted from Richard Bojarski's The Films of Béla Lugosi, Citadel Press, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1980.
1952 Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (aka Boys from Brooklyn) -- as Dr.
Martin Landau portrays the elderly Béla Lugosi throughout the film.
myweb.wvnet.edu /~u0e53/lugosi.html   (914 words)

  
 Pictures of Bela Lugosi
Buy this Stand Up Bela Lugosi - Dracula
The Bela Lugosi Collection (Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven / The Invisible Ray / Black Friday)
For more than just pictures of Bela Lugosi, see the rest of Eljay.org
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