And the best actor that has ever portrayed Dracula.
Yet this Hollywood icon died nearly penniless after a 20-year battle with drug addiction.
On screen, he turned Dracula into something far more chilling than a monster — an eerily intelligent, aristocratic embodiment of pure evil, unmatched by anyone who followed in the role.
Yet when Bela Lugosi, forever immortalized as the unforgettable Dracula of 1931, died at 73, he left behind a legacy that had both haunted and mesmerized audiences across the globe.