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Bela Lugosi (1882-1956): Not Just Count Dracula
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Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
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(1931) Bela Lugosi played the role of Dracula on Broadway in 1927, then toured all over America with the play, before starring in the classic 1931 movie.
Murders in the Rue Morgue [VHS]Murders in the Rue Morgue [VHS]
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(1932) Bela Lugosi plays Dr. Mirakle, who abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. Unfortunately, that causes the women to die.
Horror Classics, Vol. 1: White ZombieHorror Classics, Vol. 1: White Zombie
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(1932) Bela Lugosi plays Legendre, a man who runs his mill by drugging people and turning them into zombies.
Black Cat [VHS]Black Cat [VHS]
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(1934) Bela and Boris meet for a fateful showdown on the very battlefield where Karloff's devilish dark priest sacrificed his own army and framed Lugosi's good doctor for the crime.
Mark of the Vampire (1935) & The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lewis Stone, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Lionel Barrymore & Lionel Atwill.Mark of the Vampire (1935) & The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lewis Stone, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Lionel Barrymore & Lionel Atwill.
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(1935) Sir Karell Borotyn was killed by Count Mora (Bela Lugosi), who is believed to be a vampire. His daughter Irena appears to be the Count's next victim. Authorities send for Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore), an expert on vampires, to save Irena from attack.
Phantom Ship (1935) DVD [Remastered Edition]Phantom Ship (1935) DVD [Remastered Edition]
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(1935) This movie depicts the mystery of the ship, the Mary Celeste. During a terrible storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off, one by one. Bela Lugosi plays an alcoholic, one-armed sailor named Anton Lorenzen.
The Raven [VHS]The Raven [VHS]
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(1935) Dr. Richard Vollin (Bela Lugosi) makes the face of the wanted murderer Edmond Bateman (Boris Karloff) hideously deformed, promising to fix his face only if Bateman kills for him.
Murder by TelevisionMurder by Television
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(1935) The inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world refuses to sell his process to television companies, who send Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi) and others to get the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast, the inventor is murdered in the middle of his demonstration.
Invisible Ray [VHS]Invisible Ray [VHS]
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(1936) Boris Karloff plays a scientist named Dr. Janos Rukh, who is exposed to the highly toxic radiation of a meteorite. Bela Lugosi plays Dr. Felix Benet, who makes a serum to save Dr. Rukh from radiation poisoning.
Postal InspectorPostal Inspector
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(1936) Bela Lugosi plays nightclub owner Gregory Benez, who is in debt to the mob. When he learns of a shipment of $3 million in old bills from a local bank to Washington, DC, he decides to rob the train. Brave postal inspectors track down the money stolen from the railroad car.
The GorillaThe Gorilla
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(1939) When rich Walter Stevens (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as the Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Bela Lugosi plays Peters, a sinister butler.
NinotchkaNinotchka
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(1939) Greta Garbo stars as Ninotchka, a stern Russian woman who is sent to Paris to investigate the sale of royal jewels. She finds herself attracted to Count Leon, played by Melvyn Douglas. Bela Lugosi has a supporting role as a Russian named Razinin.
The Human MonsterThe Human Monster
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(1940) Bela plays Dr. Feodor Orloff, an insurance agent-physician who collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind, where he works as the doctor-on-call.
Black Friday [VHS]Black Friday [VHS]
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(1940) When his friend Professor Kingsely is dying, brain surgeon Dr. Sovac (Boris Karloff) saves his life by transplanting part of injured gangster Red Cannon's brain. Red Cannon's gang is taken over by Eric Marnay (Bela Lugosi).
The Bela Lugosi Collection (Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven / The Invisible Ray / Black Friday)The Bela Lugosi Collection (Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven / The Invisible Ray / Black Friday)
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This boxed set includes "Murders In The Rue Morgue" (1932), "The Black Cat" (1934), "The Raven" (1935), "The Invisible Ray" (1936), and "Black Friday" (1940). Interestingly, Boris Karloff appears in the last four movies.
Devil BatDevil Bat
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(1940) Bela Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers: "So you tried to pay me in flattery, telling me that I'm a dreamer. Well, I do dream. Dreams that you would never guess.
The Wolf Man (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection)The Wolf Man (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection)
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(1941) Lon Chaney, Jr. stars as Larry Talbot, who is bitten by a werewolf and becomes the Wolf Man. Bela Lugosi has a memorable supporting role as a gypsy named Bela.
Invisible GhostInvisible Ghost
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(1941) Bela Lugosi stars as Charles Kessler, whose wife is thought dead but is actually being hidden away after a car crash left her mind a mess. Whenever his supposedly dead wife appears outside his window, Charles goes into a trance. She commands him to kill for her.
Black Cat (1941) [VHS]Black Cat (1941) [VHS]
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(1941) This is NOT a remake of the 1934 movie "Black Cat" with Boris Karloff. This is a comical horror movie, in which greedy heirs gather to wait for the death of a rich woman. Bela Lugosi plays Eduardo, a sinister butler.
East Side Kids - Spooks Run WildEast Side Kids - Spooks Run Wild
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(1941) When one of the East Side Kids gets shot, they are forced to spend the night in an old mansion. Bela Lugosi plays Nardo, the owner of the mansion.
The Corpse VanishesThe Corpse Vanishes
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(1942) Bela Lugosi stars as Dr. Lorenz, a mad scientist. Aided by an old servant and her two sons, they kidnap virgin brides. He extracts glandular fluid from them, injecting it into his elderly wife, in order to keep her young and healthy.
Night Monster [VHS]Night Monster [VHS]
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(1942) Dr. Lynne Harper (Irene Hervey) has been called out to the old Ingston Mansion in order to make an assessment of the sanity of Margaret Ingston. Bela Lugosi plays Rolf, a sinister butler.
Bowery at MidnightBowery at Midnight
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(1942) Bela Lugosi plays soup kitchen operator Karl Wagner, and professor of criminology Frederick Brenner, who are really one and the same person. He uses his soup kitchen as a front for a criminal gang that commits a series of robberies and murders.
Son of Frankenstein / The Ghost of FrankensteinSon of Frankenstein / The Ghost of Frankenstein
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Bela Lugosi plays the evil Ygor in both "Son Of Frankenstein" (1939), and "The Ghost Of Frankenstein" (1942).
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman [VHS]Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman [VHS]
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(1943) In this meeting of the monsters, Bela plays Frankenstein's monster, while Lon Chaney, Jr. reprises his role of the Wolf Man.
The Ape ManThe Ape Man
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(1943) Bela Lugosi stars as Dr. James Brewster, a mad scientist. Aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, Dr. Brewster conducts experiments that transform him into a hairy ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Dr. Brewster believes that only an injection of human spinal fluid will prove effective.
East Side Kids: Ghosts on the LooseEast Side Kids: Ghosts on the Loose
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(1943) The East Side Kids fix up a haunted house, which is a hideout for Emil (Bela Lugosi) and a group of Nazi saboteurs plotting a takeover.
The Return of the VampireThe Return of the Vampire
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(1944) In 1918, an English family are terrorized by a vampire named Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi), until they drive a stake through his heart and bury him. In 1944, German bombs unearth his grave, and the stake is removed. He assumes the identity of Dr. Hugo Bruckner, a scientist who supposedly escaped from a concentration camp. He then starts to get his revenge upon the same family.
One Body Too ManyOne Body Too Many
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(1944) Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle (Jack Haley) arrives at the Rutherford estate determined to sell the millionaire a policy, only to find that the man just died. The mansion is full of greedy relatives, along with the sinister butler Murkil (Bela Lugosi).
Scared to DeathScared to Death
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(1947) From the morgue, a dead woman relates the story of how she got there, through a maze of murder involving a hypnotist, a midget, and a mysterious figure in a blue mask. Bela Lugosi plays the hypnotist, Professor Leonide.
Abbott & Costello Meet FrankensteinAbbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
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(1948) This movie features Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man, Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein monster, and has Vincent Price voicing the Invisible Man.
My Son The VampireMy Son The Vampire
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(1952) Bela Lugosi plays Von Housen the vampire, who plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley (Arthur Lucan). This is the last in the Mother Riley film series (1937-1952), and the last time Bela Lugosi would play a vampire on film.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn GorillaBela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
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(1952) Bela Lugosi discovers that his female assistant prefers a Brooklyn gorilla to a Hungarian mad scientist. Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo are the B-movie equivalent of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis!
Bela Lugosi: 10 MoviesBela Lugosi: 10 Movies
This 5-DVD boxed set includes 10 movies, from "Devil Bat" (1940), to "Boys From Brooklyn" (1952). The 1952 movie is also known as "Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla.
Glen or GlendaGlen or Glenda
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(1953) This is Ed Wood's feature movie debut, which he wrote and directed. He also played the title role in the film, using the name Daniel Davis, and cast Bela Lugosi as the narrator/puppet master.
Bride of the MonsterBride of the Monster
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(1956) This film was produced, written, and directed by Ed Wood. Bela Lugosi is a mad scientist. His assistant is Lobo, played by Tor Johnson. I love that scene with the fake octopus!
Plan 9 from Outer SpacePlan 9 from Outer Space
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(1959) Bela Lugosi died four days after shooting on the movie began. Ed Wood abandoned the project and, a few years later, rewrote the script to accommodate all the footage of Bela.
Bela Lugosi Collection - 9 Movie PackBela Lugosi Collection - 9 Movie Pack
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This 3-DVD boxed set includes "White Zombie" (1932), "The Death Kiss" (1932), "The Phantom Creeps" (1939), "The Human Monster" (1940), "Invisible Ghost" (1941), "Black Dragons" (1942), "The Corpse Vanishes" (1942), "One Body Too Many" (1944), and "Scared To Death" (1947).
The Bela Lugosi Box - 15 Frightful FilmsThe Bela Lugosi Box - 15 Frightful Films
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This 5-DVD boxed set includes 15 movies, from "The Midnight Girl" (1925), to the classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (1959).
Lugosi: Hollywood's DraculaLugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
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(1997) This 2-DVD set documentary on Bela Lugosi includes rare film footage from 1918 to 1956, home movies, and photographs. Interviews include close family members, Academy Award winning director Robert Wise, film producer Howard W. Koch, and a host of Lugosi’s costars and friends.