Bela Lugosi became a silver screen icon when he portrayed the blood-thirsty Count Dracula in the 1931 masterpiece that helped shape the horror genre.

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) *** (out of 4) Documentary taking a look at the life and career of Bela Lugosi who would become a huge star with Dracula but pretty much fall from grace right after ...

Though he achieved a great deal of fame for playing Count Dracula both on stage and on the screen, actor Bela Lugosi suffered a lifetime of being typecast as a horror villain or mad scientist - a ...

Long before Bela Lugosi donned a cape to play Dracula, German director F.W. Murnau brought his terrifying bat-eared, clawed monster Count Orlok to the screen. The character, whose name was changed ...

On Valentines Day 1931 Universal Pictures released the film Dracula the first true horror movie Its worldwide success catapulted the films lead actor Romanianborn Bela Lugosi to overnight stardom ...