Bela Lugosi Dracula Bobblehead

Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó was born October 20, 1882, in Lugos, Hungary, located near the Western border of the Transylvanian Alps to parents István Blaskó and Paula de Vojnich. The youngest of 4 children, Bela grew up preferring acting to schoolwork – leading him at an early age to pursue a career following this passion. At this time, Béla adopted the professional surname “Lugosi” after the town in which he was raised. By the early 1900s, Lugosi was an established actor in Hungary, becoming a member of the National Theater of Budapest in 1911 where he was highly regarded for his versatility. During World War I, Lugosi left his established stage career to serve his country as part of the Hungarian ski patrol in the Forty-third Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army, where he was eventually wounded on the Russian front. As a result of political unrest in Hungary following World War I, Lugosi fled to Vienna and then to Germany where he continued his acting career, until bein