Sepiatone Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Last night on the DECADES channel they showed three installments of a show called 100 YEARS OF HORROR hosted by CHRISTOPHER LEE. One of them covered the various actors who played the irascible Count in film. Actually, I can only come up with a list that might NOT include ALL who have, and if there are any I missed, I'm sure all of you will happily fill in the gaps. My list has--- BELA LUGOSI JOHN CARRADINE LON CHANEY Jr. CHRISTOPHER LEE FRANCIS LEDERER LOUIS JOURDAN FRANK LANGELLA GARY OLDMAN Those shows were interesting though. Two others gave accounts of the "horror" careers of both Lugosi and Karloff, the latter showing a clip of a film in which a young LEE appeared in a film with Karloff. The clip showed a scene in which Karloff's character threw a vial of acid in the face of Lee's character, and a close up of him screaming in agony. A quick cut to a modern day Lee asking, "I wonder whatever became of HIM?" Both the Lugosi and Karloff installments had clips of interviews with their children( Bela Lugosi Jr. and Sara Karloff) . Both said there was no actual hatred between the two, and in fact Lugosi's son looks NOTHING like his Dad. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Marc Warren (2006 BBC Dracula) Orson Welles (1938 radio broadcast, and my favorite telling of the story EVER) Richard Roxborough in (the most unfortunate) VAN HELSING. Duncan Regehr (most effectively) in THE MONSTER SQUAD. The Dude at the end of LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES The Dude at the start of BLACULA Leslie Nielson in DRACULA DEAD AND LOVING IT George Hamilton in LOVE AT FIRST BITE Udo Keir in BLOOD FOR DRACULA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 ALSO: Klaus Kinski in NOSFERATU (1979) (the character is named Dracula in this version) and technically MAX SHRECK in NOSFERATU '22. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 AND Jack Palance too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 ...oh, and Miles O'Keefe as a smoking hot DRACULA in WAXWORKS (1988) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 David Niven in "Old Dracula" (1975). Michael Pataki in "Zoltan...Hound of Dracula", aka "Dracula's Dog" (1978). Willem Dafoe as Count Orlok/Max Schrek in "Shadow of the Vampire" (2001), which is about the filming of "Nosferatu" (1922). He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NipkowDisc Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 AND Jack Palance too. by far the best performance of dracula if you ask me. marvel modeled their tomb of dracula comics dracula on palance... before his performance in the 1974 dan curtis TV-movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 by far the best performance of dracula if you ask me. marvel modeled their tomb of dracula comics dracula on palance... before his performance in the 1974 dan curtis TV-movie. i can see it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I started a thread with pictures of every film and TV Dracula I could find. It can be seen here: http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/112608-dracula-in-pictures/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 There are too many to Count! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_in_popular_culture The character started with the 1897 Bram Stoker novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula The myth / legend goes back to Vlad The Impaler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipMurdock Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 the Last night on the DECADES channel they showed three installments of a show called 100 YEARS OF HORROR hosted by CHRISTOPHER LEE. One of them covered the various actors who played the irascible Count in film. Actually, I can only come up with a list that might NOT include ALL who have, and if there are any I missed, I'm sure all of you will happily fill in the gaps. My list has--- BELA LUGOSI JOHN CARRADINE LON CHANEY Jr. CHRISTOPHER LEE FRANCIS LEDERER LOUIS JOURDAN FRANK LANGELLA GARY OLDMAN Those shows were interesting though. Two others gave accounts of the "horror" careers of both Lugosi and Karloff, the latter showing a clip of a film in which a young LEE appeared in a film with Karloff. The clip showed a scene in which Karloff's character threw a vial of acid in the face of Lee's character, and a close up of him screaming in agony. A quick cut to a modern day Lee asking, "I wonder whatever became of HIM?" Both the Lugosi and Karloff installments had clips of interviews with their children( Bela Lugosi Jr. and Sara Karloff) . Both said there was no actual hatred between the two, and in fact Lugosi's son looks NOTHING like his Dad. the wife says louie jordan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 the the wife says louie jordan What about him? The whole thing was about if I missed anybody who also played Count Dracula in a film, and WHO he(or they) might have been. NOT who anybody thinks was the "best" or not. (But for the record, the version with JOURDAN is the one I like best.) And I thank all those who provided the names of Niven and Palance. There was also GEORGE HAMILTON in that vampire farce too Schrek and Dafoe didn't make the list because NEITHER portayed COUNT DRACULA in a movie. A VAMPIRE YES, but NOT the COUNT. Sepiatone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Schreck and Dafoe didn't make the list because NEITHER portayed COUNT DRACULA in a movie. A VAMPIRE YES, but NOT the COUNT. Sepiatone. With you on this. LHF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 There is also, um, this in DRACULA'S DAUGHTER... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I see that some posters liked Palance as the Count. While I'm a huge fan of Jack Palance's performance as Jekyll and Hyde, I was very disappointed by his interpretation of Dracula. It's the suave Draculas that I enjoy on screen, and Palance, quite frankly, has too much of the brute about him to be convincing in such a role. I must concede, however, that it's probably been 20 years since I saw his performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 I started a thread with pictures of every film and TV Dracula I could find. It can be seen here: http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/112608-dracula-in-pictures/ I read and "amened" aloud your thoughts on 1992's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA...it's interesting that they keep a lot of the idiosyncratic details of the novel (the blue rings of light that blaze along the carriage at night for example) but don't even attempt to explain them; and then they go and undermine the central idea of the novel and the character by making him a romantic figure. I also really don't like (most of) the sets at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 There can never be too many Draculas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 There can never be too many Draculas. PEOPLE PLEASE! Could we get all the SINGING DRACULAS to the right of the stage, and all the DANCING DRACULAS to the left?!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyCronin Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Now that reminds me: Tom Hewitt starred in "Dracula, The Musical" on Broadway around 2004-2005. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feego Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Judd Hirsch played Dracula in the TV special The Halloween that Almost Wasn't, aka The Night Dracula Saved the World. Also, Grandpa on The Munsters (Al Lewis) was Count Dracula (full name Vladimir Dracula). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Has anybody mentioned . . . A film which, among other things, offered sage advice for all movie Draculas - Watch Out For That Window! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 This is Rudolf Martin as Count Dracula. He guest starred in Season 5 Episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (titled: Buffy Vs. Dracula) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceA Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 This is Rudolf Martin as Count Dracula. He guest starred in Season 5 Episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (titled: Buffy Vs. Dracula) A month after he was Dracula on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Martin starred in the TV movie Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 A month after he was Dracula on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Martin starred in the TV movie Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula. I know Vlad had long hair, but I've never liked the long-haired approach to Dracula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 Long haired? Interesting.... In the 100 YEARS OF HORROR episode I mentioned, they showed a clip of an interview with JOHN CARRADINE about his insisting that the Count should, as in the novel, have "Steely" GREY hair. Apparently, HE was the only one to have it. That I know of anyway. He was probably made a romantic figure in many adaptations due to, as in the novel, the Count DID possess the hypnotic power to invoke lust in his FEMALE victims. And movie suits might have thought women movie goers wouldn't buy a grey-haired old perv stirring feelings of lust in ANYbody. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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