Top 100 Draculas

[Chainsawmidget]

Here's a topic for the top 100 depictions of Dracula.  Just Dracula.  No other vampires allowed (unless the movie/TV show/cartoon implies that the character might actually BE Dracula.)  

So, let's start the list with the big #1 ...



Bela Lugosi as Dracula
as seen in ...
261 Broadway productions of Dracula (starting in 1927)
Dracula (1931)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)



2.  Christopher Lee (The Hammer series)
3.  Gary Oldman (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
4.  John Carradine (Dracula prince of drakness)
5.  Udo Kier (Blood for Dracula)
6.  Duncan Regehr (The Monster Squad)
7.  Frank Langella (Dracula 1979 version)
8.  Enrique Sarasola (Killery Barbys vs Dracula)
9.  Frances Lederer (The Return Of Dracula)
10. Rudolf Martin (Dracula the Dark Prince) and (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

[venomx]

Is there even 100 'Dracula's'? I wish we could list Vampires as well.

[Chainsawmidget]

Is there even 100 'Dracula's'? I wish we could list Vampires as well.

I'm not even sure.  There's certainly a lot of them, I know that much.  We'll see how this plays out. 

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

While it's only a minor classic of sorts, I'm going to throw my ante into the pot for Frances Lederer for his 1958 movie The Return Of Dracula. He's definitely top 100. He had a very good performance.

In many ways, I liken Lederer to Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins, though Lederer's role as Dracula was 8-10 years before Dark Shadows but some similiarities exist.

Bellac and Barnabas both infilrated a family by claiming to be relatives from the old world (though Barnabas was in his case) and they both perplexed their relatives by only going out at night.  Both also displayed similar behavior when covering their true identities, always convincing people that they were who they said, but not w\o that trace of the unknown that alluded to darker origins.  R.O.D is very underrated movie.

Oh and hey, for number 2 on the list: Christopher Lee!  



 

[venomx]

#3 Gary Oldman's 1992 Dracula

[Flick James]

* Blood for Dracula (1974)
* Christopher Lee as Dracula
* Duncan Regehr as Dracula in The Monster Squad (1987)
* Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
* Frank Langella in Dracula (1979)
* Jesus Franco's Killer Barbys vs Dracula

[Chainsawmidget]

What?  No pictures? 

[Olivia Bauer]

Castlevania Draculas are always good.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

What?  No pictures? 

Remember now, vampires cast no reflection, so therefore no pictures  

[RCMerchant]

#4. JOHN CARRADINE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX4DOM8OQC4

[Chainsawmidget]

#10. 

(Because a bunch were listed that weren't numbered)




Rudolf Martin
as seen in
Dracula The Dark Prince
and
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[venomx]

Yes, Duncan Regehr's Dracula (The Monster Squad) he did a GREAT job and He looks retro.

[Flick James]

I don't think anybody else will come up with this one.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall:

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

And lest we forget the terrible, awful Zandor Vorkov (aka Roy Engle) in Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein.  Now this is really pushing it 

[Allhallowsday]

LOUIS JOURDAN did a terrific job in a made-for-BBC version back in the '70s: