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Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) was a Hungarian-American actor best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in 1931’s Dracula. Lugosi would appear in over 50 movies from 1931 until his passing in 1956. His IMDb page shows 117 acting credits from 1917 to 1957. This page will rank Bela Lugosi movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings. Sadly many of his Monogram Pictures movies were also excluded from the table due to lack of box office records.
Bela Lugosi Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Bela Lugosi Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Bela Lugosi
1. Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó was born in Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania) in 1882.
2. During WWI, Bela Lugosi volunteered and was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant, and was wounded three times.
3. In 1920 Bela Lugosi emigrated to the US and made a living as a character actor.
4. Bela Lugosi played Count Dracula in the 1927 Broadway stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel. It ran for three years, and was subsequently, and memorably, filmed by Tod Browning in 1931, establishing Lugosi as one of the screen’s greatest personifications of pure evil.
5. His performance in Dracula (1931) created such a sensation that he reportedly received more fan mail from females than even Clark Gable.
6. Bela Lugosi was one of the charter members of the Screen Actors Guild.
7. Bela Lugosi appeared with Boris Karloff in eight films: The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), The Invisible Ray (1936), Son of Frankenstein (1939), You’ll Find Out (1940), Black Friday (1940) The Body Snatcher (1945) and Gift of Gab (1934).
8. Contrary to popular belief, Bela Lugosi only played Count Dracula in two films: Dracula (1931) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). He played vampires in many other films, but none of them–besides the aforementioned two–were Count Dracula.
9. Bela Lugosi was buried in a Dracula costume, including a cape, but not the ones used in the 1931 film, contrary to popular–but unfounded–rumors.
10. Martin Landau won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for playing Bela Lugosi in 1994’s Ed Wood.
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i saw 3 of top 5. 10 ninotchka. 9 son of frankenstein.