Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, 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...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 October 1882
CityLugoj, Romania
CountryAustria
black-cat baloney
Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!
amusement hollywood type
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.
finals lovers triumphant
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
play capes
I never play without my cape.
play interesting earth
I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
stories ifs
I'll take any story if it's good.
years narcotics
I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
red film company
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
stage dear
The stage is near and dear to me.
thinking way screens
The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
lying ignorance mean
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
mirrors looks be-you
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
speech language pantomime
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
art years budapest
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.