Dracula's in our blood: The 20 best actors ever to play the evil count

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Dracula's in our blood: The 20 best actors ever to play the evil count
Danish star Claes Bang has become the latest actor to sink his teeth into the iconic vampire role, we take look at his long list of predecessors including Bela Lugosi, Max Schreck, Gary Oldman and, er, Leslie Nielsen

I LOVE Leslie Nielson's Dracula: Dead and Loving It. In fact, I may have to pull out the DVD and watch it tonight now that I've been reminded about it.

Oh, and the article mentions DS...

[Gothick]

Two surprising Dracula performances I have enjoyed in recent years:

(1) Denholm Elliott was incredibly good in this offbeat 1968 British TV adaptation that takes a lot of liberties with the Stoker narrative (though practically none at all, compared to the new mini-series--the latest reports I read about that thing today were mindpeeling):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLja4mztQa0mTuTxDSd1TtSMlOOK4LR1a_

(2) I posted about this one a year or so ago because a young Blair Brown appears as Mina. Norman Welsh's performance as the Count is floridly theatrical but you know I revel in such things. This recording is missing act 2 but since we all know the story, we can follow it anyway. And this one also makes some changes to give more dramatic tension to the narrative. The finale may have been inspired by the Orson Welles radio Dracula which I think was originally broadcast in the late 1930s (it's also on You tube):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLNrRITJKi4

cheers, G.

[Patti Feinberg]

Didn't like all that we collect information, especially since it's from another country.

Bela is & will always be #1.

Patti