What is Béla Lugosi?
{{Infobox person | name = Bela Lugosi | image = Lugosi Béla fortepan 14652 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Lugosi {{circa}} 1912 | birth_name = Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|10|20}} | birth_place = [[Lugoj|Lugos]], [[Kingdom of Hungary]], [[Austria-Hungary]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1956|08|16|1882|10|20}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S. | resting place = [[Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City|Holy Cross Cemetery]] | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1902–1956 | other_names = Arisztid Olt | website = {{url|http://belalugosi.com}} | spouse = {{marriage|Ilona Szmick|1917|1920|reason=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|Ilona von Montagh|1921|1924|end=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|Beatrice Weeks|1929|1929|end=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|Lillian Arch|1933|1953|end=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|Hope Lininger|1955}} | children = [[Bela G. Lugosi|Bela George Lugosi]] | signature = Bela Lugosi signature.svg }} '''Béla Lugosi''' (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956) born in what is now Lugoj, [[Romania]], was a [[Hungarians|Hungarian]]-[[Americans|American]] [[actor]] of the [[theatre]] and [[movies]]. He is best known for playing [[Count Dracula]] in the [[Broadway]] play and [[Dracula (1931 movie)|the movie version]]. He was a [[character actor]] who played many different kinds of roles, but was most often seen in [[horror movie]]s including ''[[White Zombie (movie)|White Zombie]]''. He is one of the first actors to enter [[drug rehabilitation]] for a [[drug addiction]]. In the last years of his career he acted in several low-budget [[B-movie]]s, some by [[movie director|director]] [[Ed Wood]]. He died in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]] of a [[heart attack]] when he was 73 years old. [[Bela G. Lugosi]] is his son. == Other websites == *{{imdb|0000509}} {{actor-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lugosi, Bela}} [[Category:1882 births]] [[Category:1956 deaths]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:American sil