Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In addition to making films in the United Kingdom, Lee made films in mainland Europe: he appeared in two German films, Count Dracula (1970), where he again played the vampire count, and The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967). Other films in Europe he made include Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Horror Express (1972).
Lee at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival. The following is the filmography of English actor Sir Christopher Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015).. With a career spanning nearly seven decades, Lee was well known for portraying Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, beginning with Dracula (1958).
The fourth book in the series, subtitled Johnny Alucard, follows the character of the same name originally introduced in Dracula A.D. 1972. [13] In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw Dracula ranked the 65th-best British film ever. [14]
An early adaptation of Dracula is the Hungarian silent movie Dracula's Death; directed by Karoly Lajthay. The film allegedly premiered in 1921, though this has been questioned by some scholars who instead list 1923 as the earliest verifiable release date. [36] The film is currently considered lost in its entirety.
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.
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor.He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959), The V.I.P.s (1963) and Octopussy (1983).
Several other American and Italian actors were also prominent in such westerns including Lee Van Cleef and Franco Nero. Science-fiction or fantasy films employed a wider range of special effects, as in the original of The Time Machine (1960) and Mysterious Island (1961), or with animated aliens or mythical creatures, as in the Harryhausen ...
Doctor Dracula; Dracula (1931 English-language film) Dracula (1931 Spanish-language film) Dracula (1958 film) Dracula (1979 film) Dracula (2006 film) Dracula (miniseries) Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) Dracula 3D; Dracula 2000; Dracula 2012; Dracula 3000; Dracula A.D. 1972; Dracula and Son; Dracula Blows His Cool; Dracula: Dead and Loving It ...