Bela Lugosi Bela Lugosi Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; 20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in other horror films. After playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary, Lugosi got his first role in a film in 1917. He had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919. He acted in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in the United States as a seaman on a merchant ship. In 1927,
Dracula: The Series included Stratford and Shaw festival veteran Jonathan Welsh, well known television and film actors Kim Coates (from "Prison Break") and Barry Morse (from "The Fugitive" and ""), Chas Lawther, Kirsten Kieferle (from ""), and Marina Anderson-Carradine, best known for managing (and then marrying) actor David Carradine. The series was filmed in Luxembourg, and produced by Phil Bedard and Larry Lalonde, best known for their work on "John Woo's Once a Thief" and "". Dracula: The Series Dracula: The Series is a syndicated series about Count Dracula, and was broadcast from September 29, 1990 to May 11, 1991. Count Dracula is