Bela Lugosi

Born: 1882-10-17

Bela Lugosi (born Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko) was a Hungarian stage, screen, and television actor. He was born on October 20, 1882 and passed away on August 16, 1956. He is best remembered for his iconic portrayal of Count Dracula in the classic 1931 Dracula film.


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Dracula

as Count Dracula
Released: 1931-02-12

British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who...

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Ninotchka

as Commissar Razinin
Released: 1939-11-23

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who...

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The Raven

as Dr. Richard Vollin
Released: 1935-07-08

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With...

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Extraordinary Tales

as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Tell-Tale Heart')
Released: 2013-02-28

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales...

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White Zombie

as Legendre
Released: 1932-07-28

In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for...

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The Return of the Vampire

as Armand Tesla
Released: 1943-11-11

In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it....

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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

as The Frankenstein Monster
Released: 1943-03-05

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

as Dracula
Released: 1948-06-15

Baggage handlers Bud and Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the...

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Son of Frankenstein

as Ygor
Released: 1939-01-13

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma...

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The Wolf Man

as Bela
Released: 1941-12-12

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events...

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The Body Snatcher

as Joseph
Released: 1945-05-25

Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray,...

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Murders in the Rue Morgue

as Dr. Mirakle
Released: 1932-01-27

In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an...

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The Black Cat

as Dr. Vitus Werdegast
Released: 1934-05-07

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr....

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The Human Monster

as Dr. Feodor Orloff / Prof. John Dearborn
Released: 1939-11-03

Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the...

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He Who Gets Slapped

as Extra (uncredited)
Released: 1924-12-22

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in...

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The Devil Bat

as Dr. Paul Carruthers
Released: 1940-12-13

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton,...

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Plan 9 from Outer Space

as Ghoul Man
Released: 1959-07-22

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies....

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Amazon Women on the Moon

as Pete Jones (segment "Reckless Youth") (archive footage)
Released: 1987-09-18

Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with...

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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

as Von Housen
Released: 1952-07-11

The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in...

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The Black Cat

as Eduardo Vidos
Released: 1941-05-02

Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.

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The Ghost of Frankenstein

as Ygor
Released: 1942-03-13

Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can...

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Bride of the Monster

as Dr. Eric Vornoff
Released: 1955-05-11

Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly...

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Mark of the Vampire

as Count Mora
Released: 1935-04-26

Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all...

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The Corpse Vanishes

as Dr. Lorenz
Released: 1942-05-08

A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid...

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Island of Lost Souls

as The Sayer of the Law
Released: 1932-12-24

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Dracula in 'Screen Snapshots A-8' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-02-25

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...

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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

as (archive footage)
Released: 1990-01-01

Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a...

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The Gorilla

as Peters - the Butler
Released: 1939-05-26

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened...

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Drácula

as Count Dracula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1931-03-11

At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula's castle in...

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Glen or Glenda

as Scientist
Released: 1953-04-01

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.

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The Black Sleep

as Casimir
Released: 1956-06-15

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a...

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The Invisible Ray

as Dr. Felix Benet
Released: 1936-01-20

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties....

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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

as Anton Lorenzen
Released: 1935-04-27

During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is...

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Black Friday

as Eric Marnay
Released: 1940-02-29

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving...

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The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

as Dr. Zabor (archive footage)
Released: 2004-07-13

There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad-...

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The Many Faces of Dracula

as Dracula (archive footage)
Released: 2000-01-01

Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed...

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The Death Kiss

as Joseph Steiner
Released: 1932-12-05

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin...

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King of Jazz

as Emcee - Hungarian Version
Released: 1930-04-20

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most...

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Lugosi: The Dark Prince

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2006-09-26

Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star...

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Chandu on the Magic Island

as Frank Chandler (Chandu)
Released: 1935-01-01

On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to...

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Voodoo Man

as Dr. Richard Marlowe
Released: 1944-02-21

A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab...

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The Ape Man

as Dr. James Brewster
Released: 1943-03-05

A scientist is turned into an ape man.

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SOS Coast Guard

as Boroff
Released: 1937-08-28

An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention,...

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Death Scenes 2

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1992-01-01

DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration into the dark recesses of violence and rage that ended...

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Invisible Ghost

as Dr. Charles Kessler
Released: 1941-04-25

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

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Hollywood Ghosts & Gravesites

as (archive footage)
Released: 2003-05-27

Ever wonder if celebrity truly dies with the celebrity, if graves really can give up the dead,...

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The Whispering Shadow

as Professor Adam Anton Strang
Released: 1933-04-17

A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he...

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You'll Find Out

as Prince Saliano
Released: 1940-11-22

The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky...

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International House

as General Petronovich
Released: 1933-05-27

Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But,...

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Night Monster

as Rolf
Released: 1942-10-20

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his...

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Black Dragons

as Dr. Melcher/ Monsieur Colomb
Released: 1942-03-06

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is...

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Zombies on Broadway

as Dr. Paul Renault
Released: 1945-05-01

Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster...

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One Body Too Many

as Murkil
Released: 1944-11-24

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

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Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-06-15

Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi,...

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The Return of Chandu

as Frank Chandler (Chandu)
Released: 1934-10-01

Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is...

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The American Nightmare

as Self
Released: 2000-09-11

An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they...

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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

as Dracula / Dr. Werdegast / Count Mora (archive footage)
Released: 2014-08-01

Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat,...

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The Silent Command

as Hisston
Released: 1923-08-18

A distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his...

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Spooks Run Wild

as Nardo
Released: 1941-10-24

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

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The Midnight Girl

as Nicholas Harmon
Released: 1925-02-14

A corrupt art patron finds himself in love with the same girl as his stepson.

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Gift of Gab

as Himself
Released: 1934-09-01

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

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Bowery at Midnight

as Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner
Released: 1942-10-30

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses...

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The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 1996-05-01

Often called the worst director in the history of cinema, Ed Wood is nevertheless a beloved...

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The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1968-01-01

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels,...

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The Head of Janus

as Warren's Butler
Released: 1920-08-26

The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of...

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Viennese Nights

as Count von Ratz--Hungarian Ambassador
Released: 1930-11-25

In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner....

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The Saint's Double Trouble

as Partner
Released: 1940-01-26

Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods...

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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

as Dr. Zabor
Released: 1952-09-04

The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a...

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Ghosts on the Loose

as Emil
Released: 1943-07-30

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted"...

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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1982-01-01

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic...

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The Phantom Creeps

as Dr. Alex Zorka / Dr. Zane
Released: 1939-01-07

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

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The World of Abbott and Costello

as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Released: 1965-04-01

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In...

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Genius at Work

as Stone
Released: 1946-10-20

Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime...

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Murder by Television

as Arthur Perry
Released: 1935-10-01

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously...

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Universal Horror

as (archive footage)
Released: 1998-10-08

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during...

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Scared to Death

as Prof Leonide
Released: 1947-02-01

A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is...

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Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2000-08-29

Documentary featured on the Classic Monster Collection and Monster Legacy Collection for The...

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Vincent Price's Dracula

as Count Mora / Armand Tesla - (archive footage)
Released: 1986-09-29

Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.

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Chandu the Magician

as Roxor
Released: 1932-08-04

When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve...

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The Our Gang Story

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1994-01-01

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a...

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Return of the Ape Man

as Prof. Dexter
Released: 1944-07-17

The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain...

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The Devil's in Love

as Military Prosecutor
Released: 1933-07-21

The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a...

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The Best Man Wins

as Doc Boehm
Released: 1935-01-14

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-08-06

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...

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The Horror Show

as (archive footage)
Released: 1979-02-06

A history of horror movies.

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Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 2007-10-24

On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror...

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The Black Camel

as Tarneverro
Released: 1931-06-21

Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but...

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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-05-16

Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan -...

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Abbott and Costello in the Movies

as Outtake
Released: 1990-01-01

See America's funniest comedy team in rare movie trailers, hilarious highlights, belly-busting...

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Women of All Nations

as Prince Hassan
Released: 1931-05-31

Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go...

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Renegades

as The Marabout - Sheik Muhammed Halid
Released: 1930-10-26

Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for...

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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as Count Dracula / Count Mora / Nardo / Leonide Von Housen / Tesla
Released: 1991-01-01

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

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Postal Inspector

as Gregory Benez
Released: 1936-08-16

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

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Dracula

as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Released: 1963-01-01

8-minute shortened version of Tod Browning's 1931 classic "Dracula."

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Horrible Horror

as Clips in Various Movies
Released: 1986-01-01

A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.

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Such Men Are Dangerous

as Dr. Goodman
Released: 1930-03-09

A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that...

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Dracula Unearthed

as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Released: 2022-10-31

Commemorates 100 years since the release of the German classic, Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, and...

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The Horror of It All

as Dracula / Joseph / Legendre (archive footage)
Released: 1983-02-23

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who...

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Ed Wood: Making Bela

as Self / Count Dracula (archive footage)
Released: 2004-10-19

Martin Landau talks about how he portrayed Bela Lugosi in the movie. He mentions the...

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50 Million Frenchmen

as Orizon - Magician
Released: 1931-02-14

In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to...

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The Phantom Creeps

as Dr. Alex Zorka
Released: 1949-06-06

An edited version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by...

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The Thirteenth Chair

as Inspector Delzante
Released: 1929-10-19

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap...

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The Mysterious Mr. Wong

as Mr. Fu Wong aka Lysee
Released: 1935-01-25

Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the...

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Night of Terror

as Degar
Released: 1933-04-23

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion....

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How to Handle Women

as Diplomat's Aide (uncredited)
Released: 1928-10-14

When Leonard Higgins, a cartoonist, meets Prince Hendryx, ruler of the small nation of Vulgaria,...

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Wild Company

as Felix Brown
Released: 1930-07-05

The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.

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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8

as Dracula
Released: 1933-03-10

In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and...

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Shadow of Chinatown

as Victor Poten
Released: 1936-10-10

A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.

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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1999-01-01

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf...

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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

as Self / Dracula (archive footage)
Released: 1995-01-01

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of...

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The Trail of Dracula

as Self
Released: 2013-12-12

Diabolical. Seductive. Immortal. Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular...

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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1999-06-14

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews...

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Lugosi: The Forgotten King

as (archive footage)
Released: 1986-07-12

A one hour documentary on the life of one of Hollywood's neglected horror icons, hosted by fear...

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Broadminded

as Pancho Arango
Released: 1931-08-01

Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of...

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Daughters Who Pay

as Serge Romonsky
Released: 1925-05-10

Immediately after the October revolution, in Russia, stir unrest and propaganda against the...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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Die Teufelsanbeter

as uncredited
Released: 1920-12-01

In the wild, hardly explored mountains of Kurdish country lives the mysterious society of the...

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Shadow of Chinatown

as Victor Poten
Released: 1936-10-17

Feature version of the 1936 serial starring Bela Lugosi. A European importing firm resorts to...

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Terror in the Tropics

as Vitus Tesla (archive footage)
Released: 2006-01-31

Terror in the Tropics is a loving tribute to Poverty Row studios of the 1930s and 1940s and...

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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

as Riley Chandler (archive footage)
Released: 2007-03-10

Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for...

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A Brief History of Porn Cinema with Bela Lugosi

as Host
Released: 2023-11-03

Bela Lugosi returns from beyond to present this documentary that investigates the origins of...

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The Tell Tale Heart

as Narrator
Released: 2005-01-30

A stark black-and-white adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s story by a veteran animator long...

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The Leopard

as uncredited
Released: 1918-09-23

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Screen Snapshots No. 11

as Himself
Released: 1934-01-01

Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula...

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Oh, for a Man!

as Frescatti
Released: 1930-11-28

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up...

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Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode

as Dracula (archive footage)
Released: 2011-10-04

This exhaustive documentary attempts to tell the history of Bram Stoker's influential novel...

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Prisoners

as Brottos--Nightclub Owner
Released: 1929-05-18

Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in...

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Sklaven fremden Willens

as Professor Mors
Released: 1920-01-03

When doctors fail to cure the young and beautiful Claire Raven, who for inexplicable reasons...

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Caravan of Death

as Scheik
Released: 1920-11-16

Caravan of Death (German: Die Todeskarawane) is a 1920 silent German film, it was an adaptation...

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Monster Movie Trivia Quiz

as uncredited
Released: 2004-04-01

How much do you know about classic horror films? Take the quiz and find out.

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Daughter of the Night 2

as Andrew Fleurot
Released: 1920-09-23

French aristocrat falls for Russian nightclub singer, gets involved in underground Russian...

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The Veiled Woman

as Murdered Suitor
Released: 1929-04-14

A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her...

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Daughter of the Night

as Andrew Fleurot
Released: 1920-02-26

French aristocrat falls for Russian nightclub singer, gets involved in underground Russian...

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Intimate Interviews: Bela Lugosi

as Himself
Released: 1931-11-26

Actor Bela Lugosi discusses his career, his social life, and his feelings about his most famous...

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Deerslayer

as Chingachgook
Released: 1920-09-14

Chingachgook, son of the chief of the Delaware Indian tribe and faithful friend of Hawkeye the...

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The Rejected Woman

as Jean Gagnon
Released: 1924-05-04

Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are...

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The Son of Frankenstein

as The Hunchback (archive footage)
Released: 1965-01-01

9 minute home-movie version of the 1939 feature film "Son of Frankenstein" from Castle Films.

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Monsters on the March (and a Pair of Marvels!)

as uncredited
Released: 1980-01-01

American horror short from 1980.

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Álarcosbál

as uncredited
Released: 1918-03-11

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Lock Up Your Daughters

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-01

A collection of scenes from various Bela Lugosi movies.

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Suspense

as Gen. Fortunato
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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Svengoolie

as Count Dracula
First aired: 1995-01-07

The host Svengoolie talks about various horror movies while showing the movies, one per episode,...

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