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article: Bela Lugosi, Horror Icon - A Biography, by Mike Haberfelner, March 2008

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1.) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, USA 1948, directed by Charles Barton, starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney jr, Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lénore Aubert, Jane Rudolph, Frank Ferguson, Charles Bradstreet, Howard Negley, Clarence Straight, Paul Stader, Vincent Price (voice)

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2.) The Ape Man, USA 1943, directed by William Beaudine, starring Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Minerva Urecal, Emil Van Horn, J.Farrell MacDonald, Wheeler Oakman, Ralph Littlefield, Jack Mulhall, Charles Jordan

3.) Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, USA 1952, directed by William Beaudine, starring Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Bela Lugosi, Charlita, Muriel Landers, Al Kikume, Mickey Simpson, Milton Newberger, Martin Garralaga, & as gorillas Steve Calvert, Ray Corrigan (= Ray 'Crash' Corrigan) (allegedly)

4.) The Black Camel, USA 1931, directed by Hamilton MacFadden, starring Warner Oland, Bela Lugosi, Robert Young, Victor Varconi, J.M. Kerrigan, Marjorie White, Mary Gordon, C.Henry Gordon, Robert Homans, Dwight Frye, Sally Eilers, Violet Dunn, Dorothy Revier, Richard Tucker, Murray Kinnell, Otto Yamaoka, Rita Rozelle, William Post jr, Louise Mackintosh, Hamilton MacFadden

5.) The Black Cat, USA 1934, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells (= Julie Bishop), Egon Brecher, Harry Cording, Lucille Lund, Henry Armetta, Albert Conti, Luis Alberni, John Carradine, André Cheron, George Davis, Paul Panzer, Michael Mark, Virginia Ainsworth

6.) The Black Cat, USA 1941, directed by Albert S. Rogell, starring Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper, Gale Sondergaard, Cecilia Loftus, Claire Dodd, John Eldredge, Alan Ladd

7.) Black Dragons, USA 1942, directed by William Nigh, starring Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke, Clayton Moore, Robert Frazer, Edward Peil sr, Robert Fiske, Irving Mitchell, Kenneth Harlan, Max Hoffman jr, Frank Melton, Joseph Eggenton, I. Stanford Jolley

8.) Black Friday, USA 1940, directed by Arthur Lubin, starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, Virginia Brissac, Edmund MacDonald, Paul Fix, Murray Alper, Jack Mulhall, Joe King, John Kelly, Raymond Bailey

9.) The Black Sleep, USA 1956, directed by Reginald Le Borg, starring Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Phyllis Stanley, Tor Johnson, Sally Yarnell, George Sawaya, Claire Carleton, Louanna Gardner, Clive Morgan, Aubrey Schenck, John Sheffield

10.) The Body Snatcher, USA 1945, directed by Robert Wise, starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Rita Corday, Sharyn Moffett, Donna Lee, Mary Gordon, Jim Moran, Robert Clarke, Carl Kent, Bill Williams, Milton Kibbee, Larry Wheat, Aina Constant

11.) Bowery at Midnight, USA 1942, directed by Wallace Fox, starring Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay, Tom Neal, Dave O'Brien, Vince Barnett, Wheeler Oakman

12.) Bride of the Monster, USA 1955, directed by Ed Wood, starring Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King, Harvey Dunne, George Becwar, Paul Marco, Don Nagel, Bud Osborne, Jake Warren, Anne Wilmer, Dolores Fuller, William Benedict, Conrad Brooks

13.) Chandu the Magician, USA 1932, directed by William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel, starring Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin, Henry B. Walthall, Weldon Heyburn, June Vlasek (= June Lang), Nestor Aber (= Michael Stuart), Virginia Hammond, John George

14.) The Corpse Vanishes, USA 1942, directed by Wallace Fox, starring Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell, Minerva Urecal, Angelo Rossitto, Joan Barclay, Kenneth Harlan, Gwen Kenyon, Vince Barnett, Frank Moran, George Eldredge, Gladys Faye, Eddie Kane, Murdock MacQuarrie, Frank O'Connor

15.) The Dark Eyes of London, UK 1940, directed by Walter Summers, starring Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Edmon Ryan, Wilfred Walter, Alexander Field, O.B. Clarence, May Hallatt, Bryan Herbert, Arthur E. Owen, Charles Penrose, Gerald Pring, Julie Suedo

16.) The Death Kiss, USA 1932, directed by Edward L. Marin, starring David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi, John Wray, Vince Barnett, Alexander Carr, Edward Van Sloan, Harold Minjir, Barbara Bedford, Al Hill, Harold Waldridge, Wade Boteler, Lee Moran, Alan Roscoe, Charles Dorety, King Baggot, Wilson Benge, Eddie Boland, Edmund Burns, James Donlan, Mona Maris, Eddy Chandler, Lester Dorr, Neely Edwards, Grace Hayle, Clarence Muse, Spec O'Donnell, Paul Porcasi, Matty Roubert, Harry Strang, Kathrin Clare Ward, Stanhope Wheatcroft

17.) The Devil Bat, USA 1941, directed by Jean Yarbrough, starring Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Donald Kerr, Yolande Donlan, Guy Usher, Edmund Mortimer, Gene O'Donnell, Alan Baldwin, John Ellis, Arthur Q. Bryan, Hal Price, John Davidson

18.) Dracula, USA 1931, directed by Tod Browning, starring Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Frances Dade, Charles Gerrard, Herbert Bunston, Moon Carroll, Josephine Velez, Michael Visaroff, Donald Murphy, Daisy Belmore

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19.) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, USA 1943, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Lon Chaney jr, Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dennis Hoey, Don Barclay, Rex Evans, Dwight Frye

20.) The Ghost of Frankenstein, USA 1942, directed by Erle C. Kenton, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney jr, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers, Janet Ann Gallow, Barton Yarborough, Doris Lloyd, Leyland Hodgson, Olaf Hytten, Holmes Herbert, Lionel Belmore, Dwight Frye

21.) Ghosts on the Loose, USA 1943, directed by William Beaudine, starring the East Side Kids (= Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Sammy Morrison (= Ernest Morrison), William 'Billy' Benedict, Stanley Clements, Bobby Stone, Bill Bates), Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner, Rick Vallin, Minerva Urecal, Wheeler Oakman, Peter Seal, Frank Moran, Jack Mulhall, Harry Depp, Blanche Payson, Ray Miller, Tom Herbert, Robert F. Hill, Eddie Laughton, Snub Pollard, Kay Marvis

22.) Glen or Glenda, USA 1953, directed by Ed Wood, starring Ed Wood (as Daniel Davis), Bela Lugosi, Dolores Fuller, Tim Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Charles Crafts, Tommy Haynes, Captain DeZitas, Evelyn Wood, Conrad Brooks

23.) The Gorilla, USA 1939, directed by Allan Dwan, starring The Ritz Brothers (Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz), Bela Lugosi, Anita Lewis, Patsy Kelly, Lionel Atwill, Joseph Calleia, Edward Norris, Wally Vernon, Paul Harvey, Art Miles

24.) The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood jr, USA 1995, directed by Brett Thompson, starring Maila Nurmi, Dolores Fuller, Paul Marco, Conrad Brooks, Loretta King, Lynn Lemon, Bela Lugosi jr, Norma McCarty, Michael McCarthy, Mona McKinnon, Joseph F. Robertson, Lyle Talbot, Harry Thomas, Crawford John Thomas, Gregory Walcott, David Ward, Tomi Griffin, John Faiola, Judy Kaminsky, and in archive footage: Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi

25.) International House, USA 1933, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Sari Maritza, F. Chase Taylor, Budd Hulick, Cab Calloway, Bela Lugosi, Rose Marie, Franklin Pangborn, Edmund Breese, Lumsden Hare, Sterling Holloway, Lona Andre, Harrison Greene

26.) Invisible Ghost, USA 1941, directed by Joseph H. Lewis, starring Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire, Clarence Muse, Terry Walker, Betty Compson, Ernie Adams, George Pembroke, Ottola Nesmith, Fred Kelsey, Jack Mulhall, Fred Aldrich, Lloyd Ingraham, Robert Strange, Fred Aldrich

27.) The Invisible Ray, USA 1936, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Violet Kemble Cooper, Walter Kingsford, Beulah Bondi, Frank Reicher, Paul Weigel, Georges Renavent

28.) Island of Lost Souls, USA 1932, directed by Erle C. Kenton, starring Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Stanley Fields, Paul Hurst, Hans Steinke, Tetsu Komai, George Irving, Bob Kortman, Rosemary Grimes, Charles Gemora, Harry Ekezian, Buster Brodie, Schlitze, Joe Bonomo, John George, Constantine Romanoff, Duke York

29.) Lederstrumpf / The Deerslayer, Germany 1920/1923, directed by Arthur Wellin, starring Emil Mamelok, Herta Heden, Bela Lugosi, Gottfried Kraus, Edward Eyseneck, Margot Sokolowska, Charles Barley, Erna Rehberger, Egon Söhnlein

30.) Mark of the Vampire, USA 1935, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt, Henry Wadsworth, Donald Meek, Ivan F. Simpson, Franklyn Ardell, Leila Bennett, June Gittelson, Carroll Borland, Holmes Herbert, Michael Visaroff, Guy Bellis, Clare Verdara

31.) Murder by Television, USA 1935, directed by Clifford Sanforth, starring Bela Lugosi, June Collyer, Huntly Gordon, George Meeker, Hattie McDaniel, Henry Mowbray, Charles Hill Miles, Charles K.French, Claire McDowell, Larry Francis, Henry Hall, Allan Young, William 'Billy' Sullivan, William Tooker

32.) Murders in the Rue Morgue, USA 1932, directed by Robert Florey, starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Waycoff (= Leon Ames), Bert Roach, Betty Ross Clarke, Brandon Hurst, D'Arcy Corrigan, Noble Johnson, Arlene Francis, & as gorilla Charles Gemora

33.) The Mysterious Mr. Wong, USA 1935, directed by William Nigh, starring Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge, Fred Warren, Lotus Long, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Edward Peil sr, Luke Chan, Lee Shumway, Etta Lee, Ernest F. Young, Theodore Lorch

34.) The Mystery of the Marie Celeste / Phantom Ship, UK 1935, directed by Denison Clift, starring Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard, Dennis Hoey, George Mozart, Johnnie Schofield, Gunnar Moir, Ben Welden, Clifford McLaglen, Bruce Gordon, Gibson Gowland, Terence de Marney, Edgar Pierce, Herbert Cameron, Wilfred Essex, James Carew, Mondi DeLyle, Alec Fraser, Charles Mortimer, Graham Soutten, J.B. Williams

35.) Night Monster, USA 1942, directed by Ford L. Beebe, starring Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Nils Asther, Fay Helm, Frank Reicher, Doris Lloyd, Francis Pierlot, Robert Homans, Janet Shaw, Eddy Waller, Cyril Delevanti

36.) Night of Terror, USA 1933, directed by Benjamin Stoloff, starring Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Sally Blane, Tully Marshall, Bryant Washburn, Gertrude Michael, George Meeker, Mary Frey, Matt McHugh, Edwin Maxwell

37.) Ninotchka, USA 1939, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach, Bela Lugosi, Gregory Gaye, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin Maxwell, Richard Carle

38.) Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire, UK 1952, directed by John Gilling, starring Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan, Philip Leaver, Richard Wattis, Graham Moffatt, María Mercedes, Roderick Lovell, David Hurst, Judith Furse, Ian Wilson, Hattie Jacques

39.) One Body Too Many, USA 1944, directed by Frank McDonald, starring Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Blanche Yurka, Lyle Talbot, Douglas Fowley, Fay Helm, Bernard Nedell, Lucien Littlefield, Dorothy Granger, Maxine Fife, William Edmunds, Lyle Latell, Ralph Peters, Bob Reeves

40.) The Phantom Creeps, USA 1939, directed by Ford L. Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind, starring Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Edwin Stanley, Regis Toomey, Jack C.Smith, Edward Van Sloan, Dora Clement, Anthony Averill, Hugh Huntley, Monte Vandergrift, Frank Mayo, Jim Farley, Eddie Acuff, Reed Howes, Ed Wolff

serial

41.) Plan 9 from Outer Space, USA 1959, directed by Ed Wood, starring Tor Johnson, Vampira (= Maila Nurmi), Bela Lugosi, Tom Keene, Gregory Walcott, Dudley Manlove, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Joanna Lee, John Breckinridge (= Bunny Breckinridge), Lyle Talbot, Paul Marco, Criswell, Carl Anthony, Norma McCarty, Conrad Brooks, Tom Mason, David DeMering, Bill Ash, J. Edward Reynolds, Rev. Lyn Lemon, Don Davis

42.) The Raven, USA 1935, directed by Louis Friedlander (= Lew Landers), starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, Inez Courtney, Samuel S.Hinds, Ian Wolfe, Spencer Charters, Maidel Turner, Arthur Hoyt, Walter Miller

43.) The Return of Chandu, USA 1934, directed by Ray Taylor, starring Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba, Clara Kimball Young, Lucien Prival, Deane Benton, Phyllis Ludwig, Cyril Armbrister, Murdock MacQuarrie, Wilfred Lucas, Josef Swickard, Jack Clark, Bryan Washburn, Peggy Montgomery, Elias Lazaroff, Dick Botillier, Frazer Acosta, Harry Walker, Charles Meacham, Isobel LeMall, Don Brodie, Edward Peil sr, Henry Hall, Beatrice Roberts, Iron Eyes Cody, Elias Schaffer, Merrill McCormick, Gloria Holden

serial

44.) The Return of the Vampire, USA 1944, directed by Lew Landers, starring Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Miles Mander, Roland Varno, Matt Willis, William Austin, Jeanne Bates, Billy Bevan, Sydney Chatton, Donald Dewar, Leslie Denison, Gilbert Emery, Olaf Hytten, Ottola Nesmith, Nelson Leigh, George McKay, Harold De Becker

45.) Scared to Death, USA 1947, directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont, Douglas Fowley, Gladys Blake, Joyce Compton, Roland Varno, Angelo Rossitto, Lee Bennett, Stanley Andrews, Stanley Price

46.) Shadow of Chinatown, USA 1936, directed by Robert F.Hill, starring Bela Lugosi, Herman Brix (= Bruce Bennett), Joan Barclay, Luana Walters, Maurice Liu, Charles King, William Buchanan, Forrest Taylor, Jack Cowell, James B.Leong, Henry T.Tung, Paul Fung, George Chan, Moy Ming, Victor Adamson, John Elliott, Harrison Greene, Henry Hall, Richard Loo, Bruce Mitchell, Roger Williams

serial

47.) Son of Frankenstein, USA 1939, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan, Emma Dunn, Edgar Norton, Perry Ivins, Lawrence Grant, Lionel Belmore, Lorimer Johnson, Gustav von Seyffertitz

48.) Spooks Run Wild, USA 1941, directed by Phil Rosen, starring Bela Lugosi, the East Side Kids (= Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Sunshine Sammy Morrison (= Ernest Morrison), David Gorcey, Donald Haines), Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Dennis Moore, P.J. Kelly, Angelo Rossitto, Guy Wilkerson, Jack Carr, Rosemary Portia

49.) Suspense - A Cask of Amontillado / episode 2.6, USA 1949, directed by Robert Stevens, starring Bela Lugosi, Romney Brent, Frank Marth, Ray Walston

TV-show

50.) Terror in the Tropics, USA 2005, directed by A. Susan Svehla, starring Mark Redfield, Kimberly Hannold, Jonathon Ruckman, Wayne Shipley, Jennifer Rouse, Leo Wayne Dymowski, Philip Holthaus, Diane Gervasio, Bela Lugosi (stock footage), Boris Karloff (stock footage), Lon Chaney jr (stock footage), Sammy Petrillo (stock footage)

51.) Voodoo Man, USA 1944, directed by William Beaudine, starring Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Louise Currie, Tod Andrews (as Michael Ames), Ellen Hall, Terry Walker, Mary Currier, Claire James, Henry Hall, Dan White, Pat McKee, Mici Goty, John Ince, Ralph Littlefield, Dorothy Bailer, Ethelreda Leopold, George Eldredge

52.) The Whispering Shadow, USA 1933, directed by Colbert Clark, Albert Herman, starring Bela Lugosi, Viva Tattersall, Malcolm McGregor, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Warwick, Roy D'Arcy, Karl Dane, Lloyd Whitlock, Bob Kortman, Lafe McKee, Norman Feusier, William Desmond, Ethel Clayton, George J.Lewis, Gordon De Main, Jack Perrin, Lionel Backus, Robert Frazer, Tom Holland

serial

53.) White Zombie, USA 1932, directed by Victor Halperin, starring Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, John Harron, Robert Frazer, Joseph Cawthorn, Clarence Muse, Brandon Hurst, Dan Crimmins, Frederick Peters

54.) The Wolf Man, USA 1941, directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney jr, Evelyn Ankers, Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Bellamy, Warren Williams, Patric Knowles, Fay Helm, Maria Ouspenskaya, Leyland Hodgson, Forrester Harvey, Tom Stevenson, J.M.Kerrigan

55.) You'll Find Out, USA 1940, directed by David Butler, starring Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Helen Parrish, Dennis O’Keefe, Alma Kruger, Joseph Eggenton, the Kay Kyser Band, Harry Babbitt, Ginny Simms, Ish Kabibble (= M.A.Bogue), Sully Mason