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.

rats and all The effusive actor, dancer and singer Charlie Stemp is buttoned into the role of Dracula’s English estate agent Jonathan Harker, here played as a risk-averse drip who daren’t kiss ...