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BELA LUGOSI

Bela Lugosi (real name Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko) was a Hungarian-born actor. He was born in 1882 at Lugos and died in 1956 of a heart attack. He began his career in 1901 on the stage in Hungary, and then started appearing in films during the Great War. He later fled to Germany in 1919 as a result of his left-wing political activities and in 1921 emigrated to the USA and made a living as a character actor, shooting to fame when he played the role of 'Count Dracula' in the 1927 Broadway stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel of the same name, and appearing in the same role in the 1931 film of the book.
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