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Jack Seward (Dracula)
John "Jack" Seward, M.D. is a fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ''Dracula''. In the novel Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula's first English home, Carfax. Throughout the novel, Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, R. M. Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis, or as he calls it, zoophagy. As a psychiatrist, Seward enjoys using the most up-to-date equipment, including using a recording phonograph to record his interviews with his patients and his own notes. Several chapters of the novel consist of transcriptions of Seward's phonograph recordings. One of the main contributions made by Dr. Seward is his recordings of the events depicted from his personal perspective as a doctor; allowing the reader to gain a scientific understanding of the behaviour of vampirism through his behavioural analysis of Renfield. He is best friends with Quincey Morris and A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracula
''Dracula'' is an 1897 Gothic fiction, Gothic horror fiction, horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is Epistolary novel, related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker flees after learning that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunts and kills him. The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from Folklore of Romania, folklore and History of Romania, history. Scholars have suggested various figures as the inspiration for Dracula, including the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler and the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, but recent scholarship suggests otherwise. He probably found the name Dracula in Whitby's public l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Botz
Gustav Botz (4 August 1883 – 29 September 1932) was a German actor. Early life and career Botz was born on 4 August 1883 at Bremen, German Empire. Botz began his career in film business ''The Foreign Prince'' (1918), ''The Devil'' (1918), ''His Majesty the Hypochondriac'' (1918), ''Ikarus, the Flying Man'' (1918), ''The Rose of Stamboul'' (1919), ''The Secret of the American Docks'' (1919), ''The Head of Janus'' (1920), ''Monika Vogelsang'' (1920), ''Battle of the Sexes'' (1920), ''Mary Magdalene'' (1920), ''Catherine the Great'' (1920), ''The Courier from Lisbon'' (1921), ''Peter Voss, Their of Millions'' (1921), ''The Eternal Struggle'' (1921), ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922), ''Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922), ''Nosferatu'' (1922). His last film role was in 1924's '' My Leopold'' and Botz retired from the film business. Personal life and death On the 29 September 1932, After suffering unknown disease, Botz died at Bremen, Weimar Republic at the age 49. His dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Korman
Harvey Herschel Korman (February 15, 1927May 29, 2008) was an American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions. He is best remembered as a main cast member alongside Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence on the CBS sketch comedy series ''The Carol Burnett Show'' (1967–1977) for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. His early roles were on ''The Danny Kaye Show'' and ''The Lucy Show''. Korman briefly starred in his own sitcom ''The Harvey Korman Show'' (1978) and continued to work with his ''The Carol Burnett Show'' cast mates in projects such as ''The Tim Conway Show (1980 TV series), The Tim Conway Show'' (1980), and ''Mama's Family'' (1983–1984). He starred in several comedy films by Mel Brooks including ''Blazing Saddles'' (1974), ''High Anxiety'' (1977), and ''History of the World, Part 1'' (1981). His other notable films include ''Herbie Goes Bananas'' (1980), ''Trail of the Pink Panther'' (1982), and ''Curse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracula (1979 Film)
''Dracula'' is a 1979 gothic horror film directed by John Badham. The film starred Frank Langella in the title role as well as Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence and Kate Nelligan. The film was based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ''Dracula'' and its 1924 stage adaptation, though much of Stoker's original plot was revised to make the film more romantic, as advertised by the tagline "A Love Story". The film received mostly positive reviews and was a moderate box office success. It won the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. Plot In Whitby, Yorkshire in 1913, Count Dracula arrives from Transylvania via the ship ''Demeter'' one stormy night. Mina Van Helsing, who is visiting her friend Lucy Seward, discovers Dracula's body after his ship has run aground and rescues him. The Count visits Mina and her friends at the household of Lucy's father, Dr. Jack Seward, whose clifftop mansion also serves as the local asylum. At dinner, he proves to be a charming guest and leaves a strong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence (; 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor. He was known for his "bald head and intense, staring eyes," and played more than 250 stage, film, and television roles across a nearly sixty-year career. Pleasence began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', before playing numerous supporting and character roles, developing a reputation for playing "nervy, unstable characters" including Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in '' The Great Escape'' (1963), the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967), SEN 5241 in ''THX 1138'' (1971), and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in '' Wake in Fright'' (1971). He also maintained an acclaimed career on the Broadway stage. Pleasence starred as psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in ''Halloween'' (1978) and four of its sequels, a role for which he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Dracula (1970 Film)
''Count Dracula'' (; also known as ''El Conde Dracula'', ''Bram Stoker's Count Dracula'', ''Il Conte Dracula'') is a 1970 horror film directed and co-written by Jesús Franco, based on the novel ''Dracula'' by Bram Stoker. It stars Christopher Lee as Dracula, Herbert Lom as Van Helsing, and Klaus Kinski as Renfield, along with Fred Williams, Maria Rohm, Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, and Jack Taylor. The film was an international co-production between West Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Although ''Count Dracula'' stars Lee in the title role, it is not a Hammer production like his other Dracula films, being produced instead by Harry Alan Towers. On initial release, ''Count Dracula'' was advertised as the most faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel to date. Among other details, it was the first film version of the novel in which Dracula begins as an old man and becomes younger as he feeds upon fresh blood. Plot Jonathan Harker, a lawyer traveling from Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Muller (actor)
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Dracula (1958 Film)
''Dracula'' is a 1958 British Gothic horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the film also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. In the United States, the film was retitled ''Horror of Dracula'' to avoid confusion with the U.S. original by Universal Pictures, 1931's ''Dracula''. It was the first vampire movie ever to be shot in color. Syd Pearson handled Special Effects, and Roy Ashton and Phil Leakey did Makeup. Robert Lynn was assistant director and Bernard Robinson was Production Designer. Production began at Bray Studios on 17 November 1957 with an investment of .* As Count Dracula, Lee fixed the image of the fanged vampire in popular culture. Christopher Frayling writes, "''Dracula'' introduced fangs, red con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lloyd-Pack
Charles Lloyd-Pack (10 October 1902 – 22 December 1983) was a British film, television and stage actor. Life and career Lloyd Pack was born in Wapping, East London, to working-class parents. He appeared in several horror films produced by Hammer Films, including ''Dracula'', '' The Man Who Could Cheat Death'', ''The Revenge of Frankenstein'', ''The Terror of the Tongs'' and '' Quatermass 2'', the film version of the 1955 BBC TV serial. In 1970 he appeared as Claud Nau at the Chichester Festival Theatre in Robert Bolt's play, '' Vivat! Vivat Regina!''. His best known role was Professor Marks in the British television series '' Strange Report'' but he is also known from other television appearances in '' The Avengers'', '' Man in a Suitcase'', ''Danger Man'', '' Randall & Hopkirk'', ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'', ''The Prisoner'' and the mini-series ''Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill'' (1974). Personal life and death Lloyd Pack married Viennese Jewish refugee Ulrike Elisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drakula İstanbul'da
''Drakula İstanbul'da'' (''Dracula in Istanbul'') is a Turkish 1953 film version of Bram Stoker's original novel ''Dracula''. The screenplay was based on a 1928 novel by Ali Riza Seyfi called ''Kazıklı Voyvoda'' (''Impaler Voivode''), and is more or less a translation of Stoker's novel, but there is no Renfield character and Güzin, the " Mina Harker" character, is a showgirl given to performing in revealing outfits. Drakula/Dracula is played by balding Atif Kaptan. Both the novel and the film make an explicit connection with the historical Vlad the Impaler, the Prince and three-time Voivode of Wallachia. This is the first film to portray Dracula with fangs. Plot The year is 1953. Azmi, a lawyer, travels to Romania to close a real estate transaction with Count Dracula. Azmi stops at an inn in Bistritz, where he meets fearful, superstitious people. They are frightened at Dracula's name and because it is the 14th of the month, a day of ill omen. A woman warns him not to go, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracula (1931 Spanish-language Film)
''Dracula'' is a 1931 Spanish-language American horror film directed by George Melford. The film is based on both the novel ''Dracula'' by Bram Stoker and its 1924 play adaptation by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. It follows the eponymous vampire Conde Drácula as he travels from Transylvania to England to prey upon new victims. The film stars Carlos Villarías as Drácula, alongside Barry Norton, Pablo Alvarez Rubio, and Eduardo Arozamena. ''Dracula'' was made as part of Hollywood studios' attempts to make films for foreign-language audiences. By 1930, Universal had focused primarily on developing Spanish-language films for the foreign market. Filming began on October 10, 1930, where it was shot on the same sets as Tod Browning's production of ''Dracula''. Director Melford regularly watched daily filming from Browning's production, and applied what he saw to film his own version. The film was released in Cuba in 1931 and for a long time was forgotten, only men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
