The Second Man in Princeton. Final films as star Bey made Song of India (1949) at Columbia with Sabu and Gail Russell. The film was not a success. He bought an interest in a cafe in Palm Springs. The same year, he tried to get financing for a film on Sir Edward Coke, A Lion Under the Throne. In Austria he produced, but did not star in, Stolen Identity (1953). He returned to Hollywood and was cast in Sam Katzman's Prisoners of the Casbah (1953), billed after Gloria Grahame and Cesar Romero. He announced he had set up his own production company, Metropolitan Pictures, and wanted to produce but not star in Dikov, a film about a boy and his bird. Return to Hollywood Turhan returned to the United States in the early 1990s. He appeared in episodes of SeaQuest 2032, Murder, She Wrote, VR.5, and The Visitor. He also guest-starred in two episodes of the TV series Babylon 5: first as the emperor of the Centauri Republic (who also had the name Turhan), and later as a Minbari Ranger named Turval. Bey was in the Fred Olen Ray thriller Possessed by the Night (1994), the drama Healer (1994), The Skateboard Kid 2 (1995), and Grid Runners (1995). The documentary Vom Glück verfolgt. Wien – Hollywood – Retour, made in 2002 by Andrea Eckert, was about him. Another documentary in which he appeared was film historian Scott MacQueen's Extra Bonus, filmed in 2000. Personal life Bey was romantically linked with Lana Turner at one time. In September 1944, he had a brawl over Turner with the latter's ex-husband Stephen Crane. His relationship with Turner ended when he went into the army. Death Turhan died on 30 September 2012 from Parkinson's disease. He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where his ashes are buried next to his mother's. In popular culture In the 1948 Warner Brothers "Merrie Melodies" cartoon, "A-lad-in-His Lamp", a map of the Bagdad area appears. On the map, there is a geographic feature called "Turhan Bay". Turhan Bey's long absence from Hollywood was referenced in the first part of the 1969 Get Smart episode "To Sire, with Love". Maxwell Smart claims that after appearing in an unspecified movie involving mummies, Bey was cursed, and his career never recovered. In a 1980 episode of Alice titled "Dog Day Evening", Vera uses Turhan Bey's name in a rhyming game. In a