10 Movie Roles Actors Wish They'd Never Accepted

If you picture the stereotypical, cliché image of Dracula, you're probably thinking of Bela Lugosi. The Hungarian-American actor made the role his own in the 1931 horror classic, having already appeared as the vampiric count in a Broadway play of the same name.

The movie was a big success and really launched Lugosi's career in the United States, but he would later refer to it as both a "blessing and a curse" for the effect it had on his life. He was grateful for all the work and recognition, but suffered from major typecasting. People only saw him as Dracula from that point on, and all of the job offers he got were as villains in horror movies.

In 1937, he made an open plea to casting directors, urging them to ignore his past and give him a chance at some different roles, but he never really got the jobs he wanted and his career took a downward turn as the success of horror films started to wane. By that point, he could only get roles in B-movies and struggled with his personal finances, even developing an addiction to morphine.