As a result, it feels as if hundreds of thousands of actors have played Count Dracula over countless feature films and television episodes. Some are straight adaptations of the novel, while others ...

So, why is a man who obviously played Dracula, multiple times, on our list of actors who turned down the role? It's for the simple reason that he did turn down the role, multiple times ...

In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer.

Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a comic reinvention of the Bela Lugosi classic about a Transylvanian vampire who works his evil spell on a perplexed group of Londoners. Mel Brooks's Count is a ...