Béla Lugosi Facts for Kids

Lugosi in the movie Dracula (1931)

Béla Lugosi (20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956) born in what is now Lugoj, Romania, was a Hungarian-American actor of the theatre and movies. He is best known for playing Count Dracula in the Broadway play and the movie version. He was a character actor who played many different kinds of roles, but was most often seen in horror movies including White Zombie.

In the last years of his career he acted in several low-budget B-movies, some by 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.

Images for kids

Lugosi at age 18
Bela Lugosi in 1920
Lugosi in Shadowland Magazine, 1923
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in 1931
Warner Oland and Lugosi in The Black Camel (1931)
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Raven (1935)
Lugosi in Mark of the Vampire (1935) with Elizabeth Allen and Henry Wadsworth
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, Basil Rathbone as Dr. Frankenstein's son, and Lugosi as Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Lon Chaney Jr. as Frankenstein's monster, Evelyn Ankers, and Lugosi as Ygor in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster and Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Lobby card for The Ape Man (1943) with Lugosi and Minerva Urecal
Lugosi in The Devil Bat (1940)
Lugosi (center) with Polly Ann Young and Clarence Muse in The Invisible Ghost (1941)
Tor Johnson and Lugosi in Bride of the Monster (1956)
Lugosi in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
With first wife Ilona Szmik, 1917
Lugosi's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Bust of Lugosi on Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest, Hungary.
Lugosi's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame