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Sean Bean dies 32% of the time per film. Bean is tied with only Bela Lugosi for the most deaths per screen appearance.

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Count Dracula was first depicted wearing a Bela Lugosi-style cape/tuxedo combo in 1924 when the book was adapted for London stage. It was the only way to make it obvious that the Count was charming and sophisticated from a distance.

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1. Bela Lugosi was buried in one of his "Dracula" costumes at the request of wife and son.

2. Sean Bean has the highest deaths per film (0.32) of any actor, tied with Bela Lugosi, a legendary horror actor. But Kenny from South Park beats them both with a death per episode ratio of 0.38.

3. Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), the famous horror actor, was buried in one of his Count Dracula costumes

4. Bela Lugosi, the actor known for playing Count Dracula in 1931, was laid to rest wearing Dracula's signature cape

5. a Spanish language version of Dracula was made at the same time as Bela Lugosi's classic using the same sets and script. It is considered by many critics to be a better film as they filmmakers used the dailies to improve on the work of the other production.

6. Bela Lugosi never specified he wanted to be buried in a Count Dracula cape, his family made the decision.

7. In 1966, the son and widow of Bela Lugosi (Count Dracula) sued Universal Studios for a percentage of profits made from the image of Dracula. They argued that the 'image' belonged to Lugosi's heirs after his death.

8. Bela Lugosi was a WWI veteran and fought for Austria-Hungary in the Eastern front

9. Bela Lugosi portrayed Dracula on film only twice, the second time in "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein".

10. Bela Lugosi who played the original Dracula also played Frankenstein's monster in the 1943 film Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.

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John Hurt is the actor who has died the most onscreen. He has 45 deaths on films and totals 47 deaths counting TV appearances. Bela Lugosi, Mickey Rourke, and Sean Bean are close behind

Actor Bela Lugosi, who played Dracula, was actually born in Transylvania. He was also buried wearing one of his capes. - source

Bela Lugosi was in Plan 9 from Outer Space post mortem - source

The star of "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla", Sammy Petrillo, was able to perfectly mimic famed comedian Jerry Lewis so perfectly, that Jerry Lewis signed him to his production company in 1950. His imitation was so spot-on that he and Duke Mitchell made "Martin & Lewis" parody films

Philip Glass composed an alternative score for the classic horror film starring Bela Lugosi, **Dracula** - source

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The stereotype that vampires go "Blah!" (or "Bleh!") is from actor Gabriel Dell on the Steve Allen TV Show who parodied Bela Lugosi