Bela Lugosi, born as Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, was a talented Hungarian stage and film actor best known for playing monsters and villains in horror movies. His portrayal of the character Dracula in the film of the same name was so horrifyingly realistic that he got typecast as a horror film actor. He was a budding stage actor in Hungary who fled his homeland at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1919 and arrived in the U.S. He played the role of Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel which was much appreciated and he was offered the same role in a film version, the first Dracula film with sound. There had been other actors before him who had played the Dracula but Lugosi brought the character to life with his chilling portrayal of the blood-sucking vampire—inevitably getting stereotyped as a horror film villain. He tried many times to break out of the typecast, albeit unsuccessfully. His Hungarian accent also limited his choice of roles. His career began to decline despite his popularity with the audiences, and in desperation he became addicted to morphine and methadone. This drug addiction further led to his downfall and he was forced to act in B-grade low budget movies during his later years.