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Actor: Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in Dracula (1931) – the role that made him a horror icon

Dracula (1931)

28 June 200218 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Universal Dracula Adaptation

Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler, …
Category: Horror

The Island of Lost Souls (1932)

1 May 201022 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Mad Scientist/Beast Men

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Actors: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, …
Category: Horror

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

1 February 20018 March 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Mad Scientist

Director: Robert Florey
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Leon Waycoff, Sidney Fox, Bert Roach, …
Category: Horror

Chandu the Magician (1932)

11 April 200112 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Mystical Superhero

Director: William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel
Actors: Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Herbert Mundin, …
Category: Fantasy

International House (1933)

19 January 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Screwball Comedy/TV Invention

Director: Edward Sutherland
Actors: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, George Burns, Gracie Allen, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Black Cat (1934)

4 December 200026 November 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Revenge and Satanism

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, David Manners
Category: Horror

The Raven (1935)

15 May 200111 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Demented Edgar Allan Poe Fan

Director: Lew Landers
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, …
Category: Horror

Murder By Television (1935)

11 December 201811 December 2018

Rating: ★

Murder Mystery Set Around the Invention of a Television

Director: Clifford Sanforth
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Henry Mowbray, June Collyer, Huntly Gordon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

8 April 20017 March 2019

Rating: ★★

Vampires/Whodunnit

Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allen, Lionel Atwill, …
Category: Horror

The Invisible Ray (1936)

23 November 201230 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Radioactive Mad Scientist’s Revenge

Director: Lambert Hillyer
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Francis Drake, Frank Lawton, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Dark Eyes of London (1939)

8 February 200310 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Crime Thriller

Director: Walter Summers
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Alexander Field
Category: Horror

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

19 October 200313 February 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Universal Frankenstein Sequel

Director: Rowland V. Lee
Actors: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, …
Category: Horror

The Gorilla (1939)

15 July 201130 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller

Director: Allan Dwan
Actors: Harry Ritz, Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Lionel Atwill, …
Category: Horror

The Devil Bat (1940)

18 April 200125 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist

Director: Jean Yarbrough
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Donald Kerr
Category: Horror

You’ll Find Out (1940)

6 July 20102 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House Comedy

Director: David Butler
Actors: Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Dennis O'Keefe, …
Category: Horror

Black Friday (1940)

10 June 200226 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Gangster’s Transplanted Brain

Director: Arthur Lubin
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

The Wolf Man (1941)

18 February 200810 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Werewolf Film

Director: George Waggner
Actors: Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Maria Ouspenskaya, …
Category: Horror

Spooks Run Wild (1941)

8 August 201316 February 2021

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House Comedy

Director: Phil Rosen
Actors: Leo Gorcey, Bela Lugosi, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Bobby Jordan, …
Category: Horror

The Invisible Ghost (1941)

19 January 201516 December 2020

Rating: ★

Hypnotism Psycho-Thriller

Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Actors: Bela Lugosi, John McGuire, Polly Ann Young, Clarence Muse, …
Category: Horror

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

13 September 200017 May 2020

Rating: ★★½

Mad Scientist/Bride Killings

Director: Wallace Fox
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell, …
Category: Horror

Bowery at Midnight (1942)

28 May 201026 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Crime Thriller/Mad Scientist

Director: Wallace Fox
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Wanda McKay, John Archer, Dave O'Brien, …
Category: Horror

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

30 July 200012 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Universal Frankenstein Sequel

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, …
Category: Horror

Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

5 April 201021 July 2020

Rating: ★

Idiots in a Sinister House

Director: William Beaudine
Actors: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Rick Vallin, Bela Lugosi, …
Category: Horror

The Ape Man (1943)

19 April 20046 September 2019

Rating: ★

Mad Scientist Becomes Ape Man

Director: William Beaudine
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie, Henry Hall, …
Category: Horror

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

15 February 200127 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Universal Monster Bash

Director: Roy William Neill
Actors: Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey, Patrick Knowles, …
Category: Horror

The Body Snatcher (1945)

3 March 200023 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Grave Robbers

Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Russell Wade, …
Category: Horror

Scared to Death (1947)

19 June 201130 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Old Dark House/Sinister Hypnotist

Director: Christy Cabanne
Actors: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont, …
Category: Horror

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

3 April 200111 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Two Idiots Meet the Monsters

Director: Charles T. Barton
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr, …
Category: Horror

Glen or Glenda? (1952)

18 June 201114 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Surreal Transvestitism “Documentary”/Classic Bad Movie

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Edward D. Wood Jr, Daniel Davis, Dolores Fuller, …
Category: Fantasy

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)

22 March 201217 February 2021

Rating: ★

British Comedy/Mad Scientist

Director: John Gilling
Actors: Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan, Philip Leaver, …
Category: Horror

Bride of the Monster (1955)

2 May 20038 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Mad Scientist/Classic Bad Movie

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Harvey B. Dunn, George Becwar
Category: Horror

The Black Sleep (1956)

13 September 20128 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist

Director: Reginald LeBorg
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr, Akim Tamiroff, …
Category: Horror

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

14 September 200211 September 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Alien Invasion/Classic Bad Movie

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, …
Category: Science Fiction

Extraordinary Tales (2015)

4 November 201510 November 2020

Rating: ★★★

Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe Stories/Animation

Director: Raul Garcia
Actors: Stephen Hughes, Cornelia Funke, Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, …
Category: Horror

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