Bela Lugosi autograph displayAn exceptional signature and display from Bela Lugosi, legendary star of Dracula (1931) Hungarian born Bela Lugosi (1882 1956) left school early in the 1890s. By the turn of the century he began taking roles in local theatre productions. He starred in several movies in Hungary but fled the country in 1919 as the communist regime fell. Lugosi travelled to New York in 1920 to continue his stage career, playing to audiences who remembered him from the