See Pre-Poll Nominations: Best Dracula for origin of this list.
Who was the best?
See Pre-Poll Nominations: Best Dracula for origin of this list.
Who was the best?
No love for George Hamilton in Love at First Bite?
Still time to vote for him.
A very funny movie, but not your normal Dracula stuff.
“What was that maniac drinking?!”
Of course the majority will ride for Lee.
Lugosi & Lee had the peircing EYES.
Palance had the face for the role and the air of menace.
I thought the gentlemanly/elegant approach of Dracula -alla Langella - was completely off-subject.
And the mad Kinski also.
Dracula was pure (not calculated ) Evil - not mere decadence - and should be played so.
Who was it played the rather camp Dracula-type in the wonderful Polanski movie ,“Fearless Vampire Killers”?
You decide at The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) – I never saw it and likely won’t.
That was a good movie and Sharon Tate was so hot.
Bela Lugosi, for reasons I gave in the other thread.
This is for his performance in the 1931 Dracula film (and, I suppose, his innumerable stage performances of the Deane/Balderston play). Not for his portrayal in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, nor for his many vampire portrayals as all-but-the-name-Dracula in a host of films.
Ferdy Mayne played Count von Krolock
John Carradine was a terrible, no good very bad Dracula.
That is all.
Willem Dafoe, playing Max Schreck, playing Dracula.
That was good!
He should have easily walked away with the Best Supporting Actor Award that year instead of Benicio del Toro. He got robbed.
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How bout Martin Landau playing Bela Lugosi?
[/QUOTE]Somebody (else) ought to take this idea and run with it! What (if any) movies have such levels to their characters? Three deep is about all I can think of offhand and I can’t even add to this list.
Here’s more on Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=725540. He was great, but technically he wasn’t playing Dracula; he was playing Orlock.
My vote was for Frank Langella, who was both sexy and scary in the role.
There’s also James Cagney playing Lon Cheney playing The Phantom of the Opera/Hunchback of Notre Dame/whatever in Man of a Thousand Faces.
Anything beyond three is just ludicrous, as in the first episode of the TV show Police Squad where Leslie Neilsen keeps pulling wigs off the female villain, revealing a stack of different identities.
I kinda liked Rudolf Martin. His movie was different, at least, if it wasn’t great.
Very technically. The original Nosferatu was a direct rip-off of Dracula. They couldn’t get the rights to the original story from the Stoker estate who successfully sued them in court and had most prints of the film withdrawn and destroyed.