Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko better known as Bela Lugosi was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.
He had been playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary before making his first film in 1917, but had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919. He had roles in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in the United States as a seaman on a merchant ship.
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