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This is a list of confirmed film roles Lugosi has performed in. [1] Some films from other filmography sources have not been included here such as Star Film's Casanova (1918), Lulu (1918) and Lili (1917), all of which had announced that Lugosi would appear in them, but Lugosi was apparently dropped from the cast before production began.
Late in his life, Bela Lugosi again received star billing in films when the ambitious but financially limited filmmaker Ed Wood, a fan of Lugosi, found him living in obscurity and near-poverty and offered him roles in his films, such as an anonymous narrator in Glen or Glenda (1953) and a mad scientist in Bride of the Monster (1955).
The Wolf Man is a 1941 American gothic horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner.The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. in the title role. Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, and Maria Ouspenskaya star in supporting roles.
By the time Bela Lugosi appeared in White Zombie, he was already popular with contemporary audiences after his starring role in the hit 1931 film Dracula and 1932's Murders in the Rue Morgue, and film historians have found it surprising that he would sign on to a low-budget film by producers (the Halperin brothers) with no track record in ...
Bela Lugosi was a very talented actor who got typecasted in horror roles and abused by the studios Harry H Corbett was considered Britain’s Marlon Brando, yet after Steptoe was typecast as ...
Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi in the title role. It is based on the 1924 stage play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston , which in turn is adapted from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker . [ 3 ]
Mitchell and Petrillo in Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (also known as The Boys from Brooklyn and in England as Monster Meets the Gorilla) is a 1952 American comedy horror science fiction film, directed by William Beaudine and starring horror veteran Bela Lugosi with nightclub performers Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo in roles approximating the ...
To make a vampire movie work, though, it takes an actor willing to commit to the role and good writing, says Van Patten. ... Bela Lugosi's incredible performance might seem cliched now, but only ...