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Béla Lugosi Filmography
Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), best known for the original screen portrayal of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1931, performed in many films during the course of his 39-year film career. He appeared in films made in his native Hungary, Germany and New York before re-locating to Hollywood in 1928. Films are listed in order of release. (see Bela Lugosi for his biography.) 1910s This is a list of confirmed film roles Lugosi has performed in. Some films from other filmography sources have not been included here such as Star Film's '' Casanova'' (1918), ''Lulu'' (1918) and '' Lili'' (1917), all of which had announced that Lugosi would appear in them, but Lugosi was apparently dropped from the cast before production began. 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Television/Radio *''Intimate Interviews'' (1932) interviewed on radio by Dorothy West *'' Hollywood on Parade No. A-8'' (1933) a 10-minute comedy skit/ short subject with Bonnie Poe as Betty Boop *''Universal's Black Cat Contest'' (March 1934) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bela Lugosi
Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső (; October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), better known by the stage name Bela Lugosi ( ; ), was a Hungarian–American actor. He was best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the horror film classic Dracula (1931 English-language film), ''Dracula'' (1931), Igor (character), Ygor in ''Son of Frankenstein'' (1939) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956. Lugosi began acting on the Hungarian stage in 1902, appearing in more than a hundred productions. Beginning in 1917, he performed in Hungarian silent films. After Hungarian Soviet Republic, the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919, Lugosi was forced to emigrate to Germany due to his socialist activities. He acted in several films in Weimar Germany, before arriving in New Orleans as a seaman on a merchant ship, then making his way north to New York City and Ellis Island. In 1927, he starred as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, novel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Januskopf
''Der Januskopf'' () is a lost film, lost 1920 German silent film directed by F. W. Murnau. The film was an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella ''Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.'' Little is known about the production. It was shot and previewed under the title ''Schrecken'' () with production starting in either February or March 1920. The film received great acclaim in Germany from trade publication and newspapers on its release, specifically noting the performance by Conrad Veidt. The film has been described by Bela Lugosi biographers Gary Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger as being "among the most sought-after lost films" due to its initial critical acclaim and what Robert Louis Stevenson researcher Steve Joyce described as an "all-star" film team of cinematographer Karl Freund, director F. W. Murnau and actors Conrad Veidt and Bela Lugosi. Plot The surviving script for the film refers to Dr.Jeskyll who lives in London. Jeskyll purchases a bust in an antiqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Midnight Girl
''The Midnight Girl'' is a 1925 American drama film directed by Wilfred Noy and starring Lila Lee and featuring Bela Lugosi.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Midnight Girl'' at silentera.com Plot Lugosi plays, according to an , "Nicholas Harmon, the immensely wealthy patron of music" who "loved his weaknesses — and his favorite weakness was Nina," his mistress, an opera singer whose voice is faltering. His stepson Don, an orchestra conductor, rejects the attentions of a society girl. Don becomes estranged from his stepfather in an argument, and leaves to succeed on his own. He helps the career of Anna, a newly arrived singer from ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rejected Woman
''The Rejected Woman'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Albert Parker (in New York) and written by John Lynch. The film stars Alma Rubens, Conrad Nagel, and Bela Lugosi in a supporting role as Jean Gagnon. It was produced by Distinctive Pictures and distributed by Goldwyn- Cosmopolitan Distributing Corporation. A print of ''The Rejected Woman'' is preserved at the George Eastman House. Plot John Leslie (Nagel) is a rich, New York City man who leads a brilliant life. While piloting his plane in Canada, he meets Diane Du Prez (Rubens) while seeking refuge from a storm. Shortly after John returns to New York City, Diane moves to town and the two began dating. Leslie's friends are scandalized by the relationship as Diane is poor, shabbily dressed and unsophisticated. Unbeknownst to John, his business manager James Dunbar (Wyndham Standing) offers Diane financial assistance so that she can buy the clothing and receive the proper training to fit in with John's upper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Command
''The Silent Command'' is a 1923 American silent film, silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards (director), J. Gordon Edwards featuring Bela Lugosi as a foreign saboteur in his American film debut. The film, written by Anthony Paul Kelly and Rufus King (writer), Rufus King, also stars Edmund Lowe, Alma Tell, and Martha Mansfield. Shot in New York, ''The Silent Command'' began Lugosi's career in the American film industry. The film's focus on his eyes, at times in extreme close-up, helped to establish his image for later roles. The film depicts the story of Benedict Hisston (Lugosi), who is part of a plot to destroy the Panama Canal. Initially unable to obtain necessarily intelligence from Richard Decatur (Lowe), a captain in the United States Navy, he enlists the aid of femme fatale Peg Williams (Mansfield). Decatur pretends to be seduced into the conspiracy, costing him his career and estranging him from his wife (Tell), but he ultimately betrays the saboteurs in Panama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins The Third
''John Hopkins the Third'' ( / ''The Missing Million'') is a 1921 German film directed by Wolfgang Neff and featuring Béla Lugosi as the villain (a Western cowboy role). It was also known as ''Johann Hopkins III''.Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares by Gary D. Rhodes, with Richard Sheffield, (2007) Collectables/Alpha Video Publishers, pg. 270, ISBN 0-9773798-1-7 (hardcover) Cast In alphabetical order * Curt Cappi – D. I. Winsor (credited as Curd Cappi) * Sybill de Brée * Fritz Falkenberg – Eddy Corvin * Harry Frank – John Hopkins, the detective * Frydel Fredy * Béla Lugosi - as The Villain * Ludwig Rex * Preben J. Rist – W. R. Turner George Corvin * Alfred Schmasow – Commissar Sam * Lya Sellin – die schwarze Mary * Heinrich von Korff – Mat Bliß See also * Béla Lugosi filmography Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), best known for the original screen portrayal of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1931, performed in many films during the course of his 39-year film career. He appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Teufelsanbeter
''The Devil Worshippers'' () is a six-chapter 1921 silent German film written by Marie Luise Droop, directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul and featuring Carl de Vogt in the title-role of Kara Ben Nemsi. De Vogt's career as an actor stretched into the 1960s, where he appeared in a number of the then-popular German ''crimi'' films. Later horror-star Béla Lugosi is also featured in one of his first supporting roles in a film, although his precise role in the film is unknown (some sources say he played a character called Pir Kamek). The film was an adaptation of two Karl May novels (''The Desert'' and ''Wild Kurdistan''). It was one of the first German films to be based on the works of Karl May, who was normally known for his novels set in the old American West). This film was the first of a trilogy of the production company "Ustad-Film" starring actor Carl de Vogt, but it was only released as the third in the cinemas. In several scenes, this black-and-white film has some coloring, e.g. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Pinkerton In The Fight
''Nat Pinkerton in the Fight'' () is a 1920 German film directed by Wolfgang Neff and featuring Béla Lugosi. The film was released in two parts, ''Das Ende des Artisten Bartolini'' (1920) and ''Diebesfallen'' (1921). Nat Pinkerton was a character which appeared in the German dime novel ''Nat Pinkerton, der König der Detectivs'' published between 1907 and 1915. It was a detective and highly popular in Europe in the 1910s and the 1920s. Cast * Olaf Storm * Sybill de Brée * Béla Lugosi – Gang Leader * Eduard van Meghan * Joe Nestor-Pridum * Marian Alma See also * Béla Lugosi filmography Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), best known for the original screen portrayal of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1931, performed in many films during the course of his 39-year film career. He appeared in films made in his native Hungary, Germany and New York b ... References External links * 1920 films German black-and-white films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caravan Of Death (film)
''Caravan of Death'' () is a 1920 silent German film directed by Josef Stein and featuring Carl de Vogt as Kara Ben Nemsi. The film was an adaptation of the latter half of the Karl May novel ''From Baghdad to Stamboul'', and is now considered to be lost. It was a sequel to Stein's earlier 1920 film '' On the Brink of Paradise''. Béla Lugosi played a supporting role as a sheik. Erwin Baron, who wrote the screenplay, also played Omram in the film. Plot Kara Ben Nemsi and his servant Haji Halef Omar join a group of Mohammedans on a pilgrimage to bury their dead. When a plague erupts, the two men become infected. Weakened by the disease, they must protect the caravan from traps set by the group's Kurdish enemies on their way to the holy site. Cast * Carl de Vogt as Kara Ben Nemsi * Meinhart Maur as Hadschi Halef Omar / Saduk * Erwin Baron as Omram * Gustav Kirchberg as Hassan Ardschir Mirza * Dora Gerson as Dschana Ardschir Mirza * Cläre Lotto as Benda Ardschir Mirza * Maxi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman In The Dolphin
''The Woman in the Dolphin'' () is a 1920 silent German film directed by Artur Kiekebusch-Brenken for Gaci Film, written by Jan Gramatzki and featuring Béla Lugosi. The camerawork was handled by Karl Freund, who years later was the cinematographer on Lugosi's 1931 ''Dracula'' and Universal Pictures' classic ''The Mummy''. A still from the film exists online showing a youthful Lugosi with a very full moustache in this lead role. The film itself is lost. Cast * Emilie Sannom as Ellinor Wingord * Magnus Stifter as Gordon * Rudolf Hilberg as Fürst * Béla Lugosi as Tom Bill * Ernst Pittschau Ernst Pittschau (5 October 1883 – 2 June 1951) was a German stage actor, stage and film actor. Biography Pittschau, whose father's name was also named Ernst Pittschau, a stage actor, received an education in business and had a brief career sel ... as Harold Holm * Jacques Wandryck * Max Zilzer See also * Béla Lugosi filmography References External links * 1920 films 1920 lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Of The Mohicans (1920 German Film)
''The Last of the Mohicans'' () is the feature-length second part of the 1920 German silent Western film ''Lederstrumpf'' (''Leatherstocking'') directed by Arthur Wellin and featuring Bela Lugosi and Emil Mamalock. Bela Lugosi played the Indian Chingachgook, one of his most unusual roles, and Emil Mamalock played Hawkeye, the Deerslayer. It is based on James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel of the same name. The first part is ''The Deerslayer and Chingachgook'' (''Der Wildtöter und Chingachgook''). A print of ''Lederstrumpf'', in its heavily edited shortened U.S. version titled ''The Deerslayer'', was discovered in the 1990s, but the original full-length German film is lost. Cast In alphabetical order * Charles Barley as Harry * Edward Eyseneck as Worley * Herta Heden as Judith Hutter * Gottfried Kraus as Tom Hutter * Bela Lugosi as Chingachgook, an Indian brave * Emil Mamelok as the Deerslayer (aka Hawkeye) * Erna Rehberger as Heddy Hutter * Kurt Rottenburg as Magua (villain) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deerslayer And Chingachgook
''The Deerslayer and Chingachgook'' () is the feature-length first part of the two-part 1920 German silent Western film ''Lederstrumpf'' (''Leatherstocking''), directed by Arthur Wellin and featuring Bela Lugosi. It is based on the 1841 novel ''The Deerslayer'' by James Fenimore Cooper. The second part is called ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (''Der Letzte der Mohikaner''). Cast * Emil Mamelok as Deerslayer * Herta Heden as Judith Hutter * Bela Lugosi as Chingachgook * Gottfried Kraus as Tom Hutter * Edward Eyseneck as Worley * Margot Sokolowska as Wah-ta-Wah * Frau Rehberger as Judith Hutter * Willy Schroeder as Hartherz * Herr Söhnlein as Col. Munro * Heddy Sven as Cora Munro * Frau Wenkhaus as Alice Munro See also * Bela Lugosi filmography * List of rediscovered films This is a list of rediscovered films that, once thought lost, have since been discovered, in whole or in part. See List of incomplete or partially lost films and List of rediscovered film footage for fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
