Bela Lugosi

Béla Lugosi (born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó1882–1956) was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He is most remembered for his various roles in horror films. His name is virtually synonymous with the vampire Dracula, whom Lugosi played first on Broadway, and then on film in 1931.

Bela Lugosi in The War That Came Early
Bela Lugosi was globally recognized when a new world war broke out in 1938. Chaim Weinberg, an American volunteer with the Lincoln Brigade in Spain frequently came into contact with Hungarian volunteers whose accents reminded him of Lugosi's speaking voice.

Even soldiers in Japan knew of Lugosi and his most famous role. While stationed in Siberia in 1939, Sgt. Hideki Fujita called the mosquitoes that plagued his unit "Draculas".