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Lugosi at age 18. Lugosi, the youngest of four children, [4] was born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó in 1882 in Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania) to Hungarian father István Blaskó, a baker who later became a banker, [5] and Serbian-born mother Paula de Vojnich. [6]
Bela George Lugosi (born January 5, 1938) is an American attorney and the son of actor Béla Lugosi, who is best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic Dracula (1931) and his roles in many other horror films. George Lugosi is often referred to as Bela Lugosi Jr. His legal actions in Lugosi v.
Bela Lugosi, in silent footage for the abandoned The Vampire's Tomb, which was later recycled for Plan 9 from Outer Space. Shortly before Lugosi's death in August 1956, he had been working with Wood on a handful of half-realized projects, variously titled The Vampire's Tomb or The Ghoul Goes West. [20]
Scared to Death is a 1947 American gothic thriller film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton and Molly Lamont. [3] The picture was filmed in Cinecolor. The film is historically important as the only color film in which Bela Lugosi has a starring role.
He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Ed Wood (1994), a biopic in which Landau plays actor Bela Lugosi. Landau researched the role of Lugosi by watching many old Lugosi movies and studying Lugosi's Hungarian accent, which contributed to Lugosi's decline in acting. "I began to respect this guy and pity him," said Landau.
He was married to Lillian Arch Lugosi (1911-1981) (the former wife of Bela Lugosi) from 1966 until his death in 1972. [ 27 ] Donlevy supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election .
At the time of his death, Gaye was in hot water with the IRS, which wanted $1 million to cover unpaid taxes. Gaye also owed back alimony of $300,000 and had a total of $1.9 million in debt.
The film made use of body doubles for Lugosi: Eddie Parker and Red Reagan. [8] [9] Parker was also the body-double of Lugosi in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). [5] Lugosi's fee for the film is estimated to have been $1,000.00. [5] The story is similar to an earlier Bela Lugosi movie, The Corpse Vanishes (1942). [11]