Biography: life and films
Bela Lugosi was a Hungarian-American actor whose birth name was Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko. He was born in Lugos, Hungary on 20th October 1882 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 16th August 1956, aged 73.His best films as an actor include F.W. Murnau's Der Januskopf (1920), Ernst Lubitsch's comedy Ninotchka (1939), Rowland V. Lee's Son of Frankenstein (1939), Alan James's crime-thriller SOS Coast Guard (1942) and Robert Wise's thriller The Body Snatcher (1945).
Bela Lugosi appeared in 108 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Richard Eichberg (8 films), William Beaudine (4), Wolfgang Neff (3), Tod Browning (3), Erle C. Kenton (3), Edward D. Wood Jr. (3), William Nigh (2), Wallace Fox (2), Victor Halperin (2), Ray Taylor (2), Phil Rosen (2), Lew Landers (2), Josef Stein (2), John Gilling (2), Hamilton MacFadden (2), Ford Beebe (2), Arthur Wellin (2) and Alan James (2).
His most frequent genres include: Horror (52 films), drama (40), comedy (20), Thriller (15), Fantasy (8), crime-thriller (6), Documentary (6), romance (3), comedy-romance (3) and comedy-drama (2).
Our average rating for Bela Lugosi over all films is: 2.6
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920) [a]
Das Ganze Sein ist flammend Leid (1920) [a]
Der Fluch der Menschheit - 1. Die Tochter der Arbeit (1920) [a]
Der Fluch der Menschheit (1920) [a]
Der Januskopf (1920) [a]
Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan - 1. Sybil Young (1920) [a]
Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan - 2. Der Tod des Großfürsten (1920) [a]
Die Frau im Delphin, oder 30 Tage auf dem Meeresgrund (1920) [a]
Die Sklavenhalter von Kansas-City (1920) [a]
Die Teufelsanbeter (1920) [a]
Die Todeskarawane (1920) [a]
Hypnose (1920) [a]
Lederstrumpf, 1. Teil: Der Wildtöter und Chingachgook (1920) [a]
Lederstrumpf, 2. Teil: Der Letzte der Mohikaner (1920) [a]
Nat Pinkerton im Kampf, 1. Teil - Das Ende des Artisten Bartolini (1920) [a]
Apachenrache, 3. Teil - Die verschwundene Million (1921) [a]
Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin (1922) [a]
The Silent Command (1923) [a]
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) [a]
The Rejected Woman (1924) [a]
Daughters Who Pay (1925) [a]
The Midnight Girl (1925) [a]
The Last Performance (1927) [a]
How to Handle Women (1928) [a]
Prisoners (1929) [a]
The Thirteenth Chair (1929) [a]
The Veiled Woman (1929) [a]
Oh, for a Man! (1930) [a]
Renegades (1930) [a]
Such Men Are Dangerous (1930) [a]
Viennese Nights (1930) [a]
Wild Company (1930) [a]
50 Million Frenchmen (1931) [a]
Broadminded (1931) [a]
Drácula (1931) [a]
Dracula (1931) [a]
The Black Camel (1931) [a]
Women of All Nations (1931) [a]
Chandu the Magician (1932) [a]
Island of Lost Souls (1932) [a]
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) [a]
The Death Kiss (1932) [a]
International House (1933) [a]
Night of Terror (1933) [a]
The Devil's in Love (1933) [a]
The Whispering Shadow (1933) [a]
Gift of Gab (1934) [a]
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934) [a]
The Return of Chandu (1934) [a]
Chandu on the Magic Island (1935) [a]
Mark of the Vampire (1935) [a]
Murder by Television (1935) [a]
The Best Man Wins (1935) [a]
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1935) [a]
The Raven (1935) [a]
Postal Inspector (1936) [a]
Revolt of the Zombies (1936) [a]
Shadow of Chinatown (1936) [a]
Ninotchka (1939) [a]
Son of Frankenstein (1939) [a]
The Gorilla (1939) [a]
The Phantom Creeps (1939) [a]
The Dark Eyes of London (1940) [a]
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) [a]
You'll Find Out (1940) [a]
Spooks Run Wild (1941) [a]
The Black Cat (1941) [a]
Black Dragons (1942) [a]
Bowery at Midnight (1942) [a]
Night Monster (1942) [a]
SOS Coast Guard (1942) [a]
The Corpse Vanishes (1942) [a]
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) [a]
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) [a]
Ghosts on the Loose (1943) [a]
The Ape Man (1943) [a]
Return of the Ape Man (1944) [a]
The Return of the Vampire (1944) [a]
Voodoo Man (1944) [a]
Zombies on Broadway (1945) [a]
Genius at Work (1946) [a]
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) [a]
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) [a]
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) [a]
Glen or Glenda (1953) [a]
Bride of the Monster (1955) [a]
The Black Sleep (1956) [a]
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) [a]
The World of Abbott and Costello (1965) [a]
Nightmare in Blood (1977) [a]
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991) [a]
The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jr. (1995) [a]
The Sci-Fi Boys (2006) [a]
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) [a]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The best of Japanese cinema
The Golden Age of French cinema
