Labels:text | human face | person | clothing | man | screenshot | letter | document OCR: Bela Lugosi by Michael H. Price 1882 - 1956 A commandingscreen presence of keen intelligence and wit but little strategic skill, Bela Lugosi (born Bela Blasko, in Lugos, Hungary) entered the Hungarian film industry in 1915 as a leading player - often under the pseudonym of Arisztid Olt. Lugosi courted typecasting during the 1920s as a recent immigrant, scoring most unforgetably with the title role in the Broadway production of Dracula. When inevitably Dracula was brought to the screen in 1931, Lugosi was the obvious choice to star. Though his Major Genre Movie Credits professional calling was already well established, the runaway success of Dracula detoured Lugosi into a 1931 Dracula 1932 White Zombie escaping. bogeyman trap that he would prove incapable of Island of Lost Souls Hit hard by a temporary collapse in horror-movie Murders in the Rue Morgue production during the lafter 1930s, Lugosi rebounded Chandu the Magician with a vengeance after the genre reasserted itself in 1933 Intemational House (comedy) 1939, delivering his absolute-finest characterization as 1934 The Black Cat a truculent rustic in Son of Frankenstein and following Return of Chandy through from there to the end with assorted eamest 1935 Mark of the Vampire protrayals in low budget chillers, made primarily for Murder by Television the Poverty Rowstudios of Monogram and Produce Is 1936 Invisible Ray Releasing Corporation. His final scraps of footage turn 1941 Invisible Ghost up, incongruously, in Plan 9 from Outer Space. In all, Return of the Vampire Lugosi performed in 72 films. In accordance with his 1945 The Body Snatcher will, he was buried with his cape. 1959 Plan 9 from OuterSpace
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