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Count Dracula (/ ˈ d r æ k j ʊ l ə,-j ə-/) is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction.
The name Dracula, which is now primarily known as the name of a vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of Vlad III. [7] [8] Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as Dracula, Dracuglia, or Drakula already in the 15th century. [7] He himself signed his two letters as "Dragulya" or "Drakulya" in the late 1470s. [9]
Castle Dracula (also known as Dracula’s castle) is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. It is the setting of the first few and final scenes of the novel.
Count Dracula began appearing on musical records as early as 1958 when horror host John Zacherle recorded the novelty single "Dinner with Drac" which charted on the Billboard Pop Singles chart the same year. [130] [131] When Dick Clark played it on his American Bandstand television show, he requested Zacherle record a less-violent version. [130]
In 1927, he starred as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, moving with the play to the West Coast in 1928 and settling down in Hollywood. [2] He later starred in the 1931 film version of Dracula directed by Tod Browning and produced by Universal Pictures.
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula, alternately titled Dracula: The Dark Prince and Dark Prince: The Legend of Dracula, [2] is a 2000 biographical film directed by Joe Chappelle. The film follows the exploits of Vlad the Impaler , the historical figure that the title character from Bram Stoker 's 1897 novel Dracula was named after.
Dracula is portrayed by John Forbes-Robertson instead of Lee. Batman Dracula: 1964 United States: Andy Warhol: Tally Brown, Beverly Grant, Jack Smith: Fan film screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman comic series, Warhol made the movie as an "homage". Jack Smith appeared as both Batman and his nemesis, Count Dracula.
Mavis Dracula-Loughran (voiced by Selena Gomez as an adult in the films, Sadie Sandler as a child in the first film, Victoria Gomez as a child in the fourth film, Melissa Sturm in Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard and Hotel Transylvania: Scary-Tale Adventures and Bryn McAuley in the TV series) is the daughter of Count Dracula and Martha, born in 1894.