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Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, the eponymous cult filmmaker.The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau.
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.
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]
The six-time Grammy winner died at age 48 in a hotel bathtub, deeply in debt. ... Lugosi died of a heart attack at age 73 in 1956 with $1,900 in the bank and $1,000 in real estate. ... Oscar Wilde ...
Landau at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Martin Landau (1928–2017) was an American film and television actor. [1] On television, Landau's most notable roles were that of Rollin Hand in Mission: Impossible (1966–1969) and as Commander John Koenig in the science fiction series Space: 1999 (1975–1977).
Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 Academy Awards from its 11 nominations. Films with the most nominations without a single win: The Turning Point (1977) and The Color Purple (1985) (11 nominations each)
‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ (1952) Should Have Won: “High Noon” “Oscarologists have long described ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ as the worst Best Picture winner ever,” says Time.
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.