He set the screen template of Dracula as suave, seductive and regal. The 1958 Hammer Dracula imitated the look and upped the overt sexuality with Christopher Lee’s swaggering take.

The actors who portrayed Saruman, Bard and Dwalin in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy have each played the same character at different points.

While fangs began to appear on the big screen in the 1950s in Turkish and Mexican productions of Dracula, true vampire buffs say it was the 1958 British Hammer Films version, starring a sexy ...

You can take Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel two ways. It can become a horrific story of the undead (see recent Nosferatu), or it can be dressed up as a bit of fun, about a bloke who wears a cloak and ...