Bela lugosi actor biography searchable

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Born: Bela Ferenc Denzso Blasko in Lugos, Hungary (now Romania), 20 October 1882. Education: Attended State Superior Gymnasium, Lugos, and Academy of Performing Arts, Budapest.

Family: Married 1) Ilona Szmik, 1917 (divorced 1920); 2) the actress Ilona von Montagh, 1921 (divorced 1924); 3) Beatrice Woodruff Weeks, 1929 (divorced 1929); 4) Lillian Arch, 1933 (divorced 1953), son: Bela, Jr.; 5) Hope Linniger, 1955.

Career: 1902—first stage appearance in Ocskay Brigaderos, Deva, Hungary (under name Bela Lugossy); later acted with Franz Joseph Repertory Theatre, Szeged Repertory Theatre, Hungarian Theatre, 1911–13, and National Theatre, 1913–19; 1917—Hungarian film debut in A Leopard; 1919—left Hungary when leftists were defeated, and appeared in several German films in


1920–21; formed a Hungarian Repertory Theatre in New York, and made his U.S.

stage debut in The Red Poppy in 1922; 1923—U.S. film debut in The Silent Command; 1927—successful Broadway pe