Bela Lugosi is an actor.
Bela Lugosi . Among his pairings with Karloff , only in The Black Cat ( 1934 ) , The Raven ( 1935 ) , and Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 ) did he perform major roles again , and , even in The Raven , Karloff received top billing despite Lugosi performing the lead role . This drug dependence was noted by producers , and the offers eventually dwindled down to a few parts in Ed Wood 's low-budget movies , most notably Plan 9 from Outer Space . Plan 9 from Outer Space ( originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space ) is a 1959 American independent black and white science fiction-horror film , written , produced , directed , and edited by Ed Wood , that stars Gregory Walcott , Mona McKinnon , Tor Johnson , and Vampira . The film also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a star ( silent footage of the actor had actually been shot by Wood for another , unfinished film just prior to Lugosi 's death in August 1956 ) . The Raven (1935 film) . The picture revolves around Edgar Allan Poe 's famous homonymous poem , featuring Lugosi as a Poe-obsessed mad surgeon with a torture chamber in his basement and Karloff as a fugitive murderer desperately on the run from the police .