"Scars of Dracula Scars of Dracula is a 1970 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker for Hammer Studios. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, along with Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Patrick Troughton, and Michael Gwynn. Although disparaged by some critics, the film does restore a few elements of Bram Stoker's original character: the Count is introduced as an ""icily charming host;"" he has command over nature; and he is seen scaling the walls of his castle. It also gives Lee more to do and say than any other Hammer Dracula film except its first, 1958's ""Dracula"". This"
"Bela Lugosi Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; 20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in other horror films. After playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary, Lugosi got his first role in a film in 1917. He had to leave the country after the failed Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919. He acted in several films in Weimar Germany before arriving in the United States as a seaman on a merchant ship. In 1927,"
"of Dracula"" #10 (July 1973), written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by Gene Colan. The artist recalled in 2003, ""Marv told me Blade was a black man, and we talked about how he should dress, and how he should look – very heroic looking. That was my input. [...] The bandolier of blades – that was Marv's idea. But, I dressed him up. I put the leather jacket on him and so on"". Colan based the character's features on ""a composite of black actors"" including NFL football star-turned-actor Jim Brown. He initially sported 1970s style afro hair and wielded teak"
"Bram Stoker's Dracula Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. ""Dracula"" grossed $215 million on a $40 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes's consensus cited ""some terrific performances"", but Reeves' work has been widely criticized. It was nominated for four Academy Awards and won three for Best Costume Design, Best Sound Editing, and Best Makeup. Its score was composed"
"Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prinz Kretzulesco, born Ottomar Berbig (October 10, 1940 – November 2007) was a flamboyant German socialite who achieved fame through a claim of adopted lineage from Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Count Dracula. Berbig was an antiques dealer in West Berlin in 1978 when an elderly woman entered his store wanting to sell heirlooms. The woman was Romanian princess Catherine Caradja (also known as Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco), who claimed to be a blood relative of Vlad Dracula. The two became friends, and the princess was keen to adopt Berbig as her"
"Bram Stoker Abraham ""Bram"" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876) from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who was raised in County Sligo. Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest"
"well known. The first authorised film version of ""Dracula"" did not come about until almost a decade later when Universal Studios released Tod Browning's ""Dracula"" starring Bela Lugosi. Canadian writer Dacre Stoker, a great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, decided to write ""a sequel that bore the Stoker name"" to ""reestablish creative control over"" the original novel, with encouragement from screenwriter Ian Holt, because of the Stokers' frustrating history with ""Dracula's"" copyright. In 2009, ""Dracula: The Un-Dead"" was released, written by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Both writers ""based [their work] on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads"
"had initially intended to play the role of the count himself. When the play crossed the Atlantic in 1927, the role of Dracula was taken by the then-unknown Hungarian actor Béla Lugosi. For its US debut, Dracula was rewritten by the American playwright John L. Balderston. The show ran for a year on Broadway and for two more years on tour, breaking all previous records for any show put on tour in the United States. It is the Deane/Balderston interpretation upon which the classic Tod Browning film ""Dracula"" (1931) was based. Hamilton Deane Hamilton Deane (1880–1958) was an Irish actor,"
"Dracula (2006 film) Dracula is a television adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, ""Dracula"", produced by Granada Television for WGBH Boston and BBC Wales in 2006. It was written by Stewart Harcourt and directed by Bill Eagles. Arthur Holmwood is diagnosed with syphilis soon after becoming engaged to Lucy Westenra. Knowing that the disease would kill both him and his fiancée, he contacts an occult group called the Brotherhood, which is being led by a man named Singleton. Singleton claims that they know someone who can cure him of the disease, but for a price. Lucy's best friend is Mina"
"Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film) Dracula is a 1973 British television film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"" written by Richard Matheson and directed by ""Dark Shadows"" creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". ""Bistritz, Hungary May 1897"": natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula. Jonathan finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. Dracula reacts very strongly to a photograph of"
"Dracula (1958 film) Dracula is a 1958 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, this original also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. In the U.S. the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the earlier ""Dracula"" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi, and the film was released in the U.S. in 1958 on a double feature"
"Count Alucard (character) Count Alucard is a fictional character created by American filmmakers Robert and Curt Siodmak for their 1943 horror film ""Son of Dracula"". Like his father Count Dracula, Alucard is a vampire, a mythological creature that lives by sucking the life force from living creatures. Alucard was first performed by Lon Chaney Jr. in ""Son of Dracula"" and has since been featured in other movies, comics, television shows, video games and other forms of media. The name ""Alucard"" is ""Dracula"" spelled backwards. Alucard was created by Universal Studios' Robert Siodmak and his brother Curt for their 1943 film"
"Dracula (Dell Comics) Dracula is a superhero comic book series published by Dell Comics, based on the literary and movie character Count Dracula. The book was part of a line of three superhero comics based on the Universal Monsters characters; the other two were ""Frankenstein"" and ""Werewolf"". ""Dracula"" lasted 3 issues from 1966 through 1967, numbered 2 through 4. (#1, published in 1962, was an adaptation of the 1931 film). In 1972-73, Dell reprinted the series, numbering them #6-8 (the reason for skipping issue #5 is unknown). Dracula is a modern-day direct descendant of the original Count Dracula now working"
"Dracula (1931 English-language film) Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. Produced by Universal, the screenplay is based on the 1924 stage play ""Dracula"" by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is loosely based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. Renfield (Dwight Frye) is a solicitor traveling to Count Dracula's (Bela Lugosi) castle in Transylvania on a business matter. The people in the local village fear that vampires inhabit the castle and warn Renfield not to go there. Renfield refuses to stay at the"
"Years of alcoholism and his business failures likely contributed to his death. Six people were said to have attended his funeral. Horace Liveright Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1883 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. Turning to theatre, he produced the successful 1927 Broadway play ""Dracula"", with Béla Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan in the roles they would make famous in the 1931 film by the same name. Liveright was born"
"Dracula (1924 play) Dracula is a stage play written by Hamilton Deane in 1924, then revised by John L. Balderston in 1927. It was the first authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula"". After touring in England, the original version of the play appeared at London's Little Theatre in July 1927, where it was seen by the American producer Horace Liveright. Liveright asked Balderston to revise the play for a Broadway production that opened at the Fulton Theatre in October 1927. This production starred Bela Lugosi in his first major English-speaking role. In the revised story, Abraham Van Helsing investigates"
"Dracula 3D Dracula 3D is a 2012 vampire horror film co-written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Thomas Kretschmann, Rutger Hauer, Marta Gastini, and Unax Ugalde. An Italian-Spanish-French co-production, the film is Argento's first 3D film. Kretschmann took the role of Dracula; he later played Abraham van Helsing in the Budapest-shot television series ""Dracula"". During the Walpurgis Night in the woods adjacent to the village of Passo Borgo, located at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, a couple of young lovers, Tania and Milos, secretly meet and make love. After fighting, Tania removes the cross Milos had given her."
"Dacre Stoker Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker. Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". He lived in his childhood in Montreal, Quebec and attended the Bishop's College School. He taught for several years at Appleby College. Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team. He coached the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Because of the Stokers' frustrating history with ""Dracula's"" copyright, Dacre, with encouragement from screenwriter"
"Dracula (miniseries) Dracula, also known as Dracula's Curse, is a 2002 Italian 2 part TV-miniseries written and directed by Roger Young and starring Patrick Bergin, Giancarlo Giannini and Stefania Rocca. It is based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, though it updates the events of the novel to the present day. At a ballroom of a hospital charity party in Budapest, the successful American lawyer Jonathan Harker (Hardy Krüger Jr.) suddenly proposes to his girlfriend Mina (Stefania Rocca). He wants to marry her within the week. Their friends Lucy (Muriel Baumeister), Quincy (Alessio Boni) and"
"Doodle on Google's homepage commemorating what would have been his 165th birthday. An annual festival takes place in Dublin, the birthplace of Bram Stoker, in honour of his literary achievements. The 2014 Bram Stoker Festival encompassed literary, film, family, street, and outdoor events, and ran from 24–27 October in and around Dublin City. The festival is supported by the Bram Stoker Estate and funded by Dublin City Council and Fáilte Ireland. Bram Stoker Abraham ""Bram"" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". During his lifetime, he"
"with art by Joaquin Blazquez. Dracula - Art by Tom Sutton, and written by Bill Dubay. This series featured a Dracula character that had originally been developed in ""Vampirella"", a relatively conscientious lord of the vampire world who traveled the world seeking to help the needy while researching a cure for his ancient curse. Three parts in total, appearing in issues #46-48. An additional three-part series starring Dracula would appear in ""Vampirella"" in issues #39-41. Dr. Archaeus - Art by Isidro Mones, and written by Gerry Boudreau. Seven parts in total, appearing in issues #54-61. This series revolved around a"
"Dances, are used to highlight the high emotions driving the story. Drawn directly from the Bram Stoker novel ""Dracula"", Nixon's ballet includes vivid imaginings of the blood transfusions given desperately to Dracula's victim Lucy and scenes in the insane asylum with frenetic dancing by the characters of Dr. Seward and Renfield. The original Dracula, Jimmy Orrante, and Nixon created a Count Dracula full of contradictions with more human longings than the Stoker character. Often performed separately for dance exhibitions and competitions, a pas de deux between Dracula and Mina draws the two into an equal partnership, including moves with the"
"Dracula with an axe, killing him and Esmeralda with a stake, and becomes the de facto master and manager of the estate. In 1973, Paul Morrissey and Joe Dallesandro came to Italy to shoot a film for producers Andrew Braunsberg and Carlo Ponti. The original idea came from director Roman Polanski who had met Morrissey when promoting his film ""What?"" with Morrissey stating that Polanksi felt he would be ""a natural person to make a 3-D film about Frankenstein. I thought it was the most absurd option I could imagine."" Morrissey convinced Ponti to not just make one film during"
"Horace Liveright Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1883 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. Turning to theatre, he produced the successful 1927 Broadway play ""Dracula"", with Béla Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan in the roles they would make famous in the 1931 film by the same name. Liveright was born into a Jewish family in 1884. He initially followed the career of a bond salesman. He married Lucille Elsas, the daughter"
"Christopher Lee Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, military officer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, a typecasting situation he always lamented. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974), Saruman in ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy (2001–2003) and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogy (2012–2014), and Count Dooku in the"
"Harker and Seward's efforts. Differences between novel and adaptation: Dracula (Mystery and Imagination) ""Dracula"" is a video-taped television play adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel ""Dracula"", part of the series ""Mystery and Imagination"" (Season 4, Episode 3). Denholm Elliott (who later co-starred with fellow-Dracula Jack Palance in ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"") played Count Dracula with Susan George as Lucy Weston (another alumn of another version of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde""). The drama begins in an asylum in Whitby, England. A mysterious patient escapes from his cell and intrudes upon a small party hosted by Dr."
"died in Königs Wusterhausen of a brain tumor during the weekend of November 17–18, 2007. His son and heir, Ottomar Dracula Junior or 'Otti', celebrated his first birthday in December 2007. Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco Ottomar Rodolphe Vlad Dracula Prinz Kretzulesco, born Ottomar Berbig (October 10, 1940 – November 2007) was a flamboyant German socialite who achieved fame through a claim of adopted lineage from Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Count Dracula. Berbig was an antiques dealer in West Berlin in 1978 when an elderly woman entered his store wanting to sell heirlooms. The woman was Romanian princess"
"Kinks and written by their lead vocalist and principal songwriter, Ray Davies. It appeared on their 1972 album ""Everybody's in Show-Biz"". A fan of the occult, Lugosi's haunted mirror is on display at Zak Bagans' haunted museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bela Lugosi Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; 20 October 1882 – 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian-American actor famous for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 film and for his roles in other horror films. After playing small parts on the stage in his native Hungary, Lugosi got his first role in"
"Dracula (1996 play) Dracula is an adaptation, first published in 1996, by American playwright Steven Dietz of Bram Stoker's novel by the same name. Though it has never run on Broadway, the author lists it among his most financially successful works, and it is frequently performed near Halloween in regional and community theaters. Closely following the plot of the novel, the play chronicles Count Dracula's journey to England, his stalking of two young women, and his pursuit and eventual defeat by the heroines' suitors and their associates. While all of Stoker's major plot points are present in Dietz's adaptation, they"
"Dracula: Origin Dracula: Origin is a point-and-click adventure game for the PC based on the novel ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker. Released by Frogwares in 2008, it follows the company's catalogue of adventure games such as the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. The game follows Professor Abraham Van Helsing as the protagonist through a unique take on the origin of Dracula. His adventures span several locations, such as London, Egypt, Austria and Transylvania, through puzzles and logic problems, individually interacting with over 40 characters. The plot follows the story of Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"", with some variation in characters and plot detail."
"1897 novel ""Dracula"" and its unauthorised cinematic adaptation, ""Nosferatu"" (1922). Stoker identified his source for the term as 19th-century British author and speaker Emily Gerard. It is commonly thought that Gerard introduced the word into print in an 1885 magazine article, ""Transylvanian Superstitions"", and in her travelogue ""The Land Beyond the Forest"" (""Transylvania"" is Latin for ""beyond the forest"", literally ""across/through the forest""). She merely refers to it as the Romanian word for vampire: However, the word had already appeared in an 1865 German-language article by Wilhelm Schmidt. Schmidt's article discusses Transylvanian customs and appeared in an Austro-Hungarian magazine, which"
"Sword of Dracula Sword of Dracula is a 2004 horror comic book published by several American companies, including Image Comics, IDW Publishing, and Digital Webbing. The series focuses on a group of UN connected commandos called the Polidorium. The series is created by writer Jason Henderson and includes a round-robin group of artists, including Greg Scott, Terry Pallot, and James Fry (as William Belk). Matt Webb colored one issue of the second volume. Covers were provided by Tony Harris and Greg Scott. In the series, vampires are allegories for terrorists, with Dracula presented as ""the Osama Bin Laden of vampires"""
"he has also recorded voice-overs for radio adverts. Gerran Howell Gerran Lyn Howell (born 25 February 1991) is a Welsh actor, director and writer of short films, best known for playing ""Vladimir Dracula"" in ""Young Dracula"", a CBBC television series that initially aired in 2006. Gerran went to Barry Comprehensive School (an all-boys secondary school with a mixed sixth form). He trained at ATSLI improvisation workshop in Cardiff at a young age, and later went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He initially appeared in a short cinema advert warning about the dangers of"