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Bela Lugosi
Real name: Blaskó, Béla Ferenc Dezső
Nickname: Adelbert (his Confirmation name)
Birthday: 1 January, 1970
Birth city: Lugos, Austria-Hungary. [now Lugoj, Romania]
Died: 16 August, 1956
City: Los Angeles, California, USA. (heart attack)
Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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Written By scotty (Anonymous)
01:00:00
Posts: 10
What a vampire - first he died 1969, then he was born in 1970.... hahaha
Written By Horny Devil (Anonymous)
01:00:00
Posts: 4
BORN IN 1970?! 
Seriously!!
He wasn´t born in 1970 dammit!! He was born in October 20. 1882 in a town called Lugos, Austria-Hungary. [now Lugoj, Romania] and died August 16. 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA. (heart attack). His birth name was Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó nickname Adelbert (his Confirmation name), youngest of the four children.
During WWI, volunteered and was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant. Wounded three times. Married Ilona Szmik (1917 - 1920) Arrived in New York City in December, 1921. Married Ilona von Montagh (? - ?) Became an American citizen 1931. Married Lillian Arch (1933 - 1951) Father of Bela Legosi Jr. (1938 - ?). Helped organize the Screen Actors Guild in the mid-30´s, joining as member number 28. Died of a heart attack August 16, 1956. Buried in his full Dracula costume, including a cape.
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According to Vincent Price, when he and Peter Lorre went to view Bela´s body during Bela´s funeral, Lorre, upon seeing Lugosi dressed in his famous Dracula cape, quipped, "Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?"
Born in Lugos, Hungary, from which he derived his eventual professional surname.
Father was a banker.
His son, ´Bela Lugosi Jr.´, practices law in Los Angeles, Calif. (1995).
Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA. Specific Interment Location: Grotto, L120, 1.
Legend has it "Final Curtain" was the script Bela was reading when he died. When they found Bela dead on the couch, he was clutching this script, written by his good friend Ed Wood.
Were it not for his death, Lon Chaney, rather than Lugosi, would have been the director Tod Browning´s choice for the starring role in Dracula (1931/I).
On the set, he camouflaged his drug addiction by sipping burgundy.
Contrary to popular belief, Bela and Boris Karloff did not hate each other, as the famous scene from "Ed Wood" would lead us to believe. Both men´s children have said that the only rivalry that existed between them is when they were both up for the same parts, and in reality, Lugosi & Karloff had almost no relationship off-set. However, near the sad end of his life, Lugosi allegedly had some morphine-addled fantasies that Karloff was a boogie man out to get him.
He was one of the charter members of the Screen Actors Guild. He was SAG member #23.
In 1929, he married a wealthy San Francisco widow named Beatrice Weeks, a union which lasted all of three days; their divorce named Clara Bow as the "other woman" - it was a media sensation and launched him into national notoriety.
Pictured on one of a set of five 32˘ US commemorative postage stamps, issued 30 September 1997, celebrating "Famous Movie Monsters". He is shown as the title character in Dracula (1931/I). Other actors honored in this set of stamps, and the classic monsters they portray, are Lon Chaney as Phantom of the Opera, The (1925); Lon Chaney Jr. as Wolf Man, The (1941); and Boris Karloff on two stamps as Mummy, The (1932) and the monster in Frankenstein (1931).
Long, extensive classical career in Hungary including roles in Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Taming of the Shrew and Richard III.
His first stage role in the States was "The Red Poppy". Unable to speak English, he was forced to learn the role by rote. He was rewarded with excellent reviews and earned his first US film role, a villainous part in "The Silent Command", as a result.
At the time of his death, Lugosi was in such poor financial condition that Frank Sinatra quietly paid for his funeral.
He performed in live action reference footage for the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of Walt Disney´s "Fantasia" (1940). He was, of course, the demon.
His Los Angeles home was purchased by Johnny Depp, the actor who portrayed his friend Edward D. Wood Jr. in the film, Ed Wood.
Further immortalized in the song "Bela Lugosi´s Dead" by Bauhaus, which was featured in Hunger, The (1983), and went on to become a dancefloor mainstay at goth dance clubs in the 1980s. The lyrics of the song described him in his Dracula costume, along with "Undead! Undead! Undead!" being chanted during the song´s chorus.
Written By beth (Anonymous)
01:00:00
Posts: 79
well, u should know that u put the day bela died before he was born..man, what was that!
Written By futurist (Anonymous)
01:00:00
Posts: 1
Yeah, Bela was a time traveler! 
Written By gothlupin (Anonymous)
01:00:00
Posts: 1
Bela was born in 1970?
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