I can distinctly recall when I first saw the 1979 version of Dracula starring Frank Langella as the titular count. It was about 9 a.m. on a Thursday and I had to get to class soon, but I was hooked.

In 1979, opposite Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasance, he played Count Dracula, having first embodied the role on Broadway. ... Frank Langella’s Dracula Returns, Colorfully And Less So.

Frank Langella’s take from 1979 falls somewhere in between the two. Director John Badman’s Dracula was based on the hugely successful Broadway stage version of the story that Langella had ...

In the midst of sipping a 1794 Chateauneuf-du-Pape, flirting with a fine- boned redhead, smoking hashish from his calabash pipe and explaining a few things to Dr. Watson about jujitsu, sodium sulfa… ...

In some minds, the road from Count Dracula to Richard Nixon is a short one, but throw in some 40-odd personalities in between the two and you get just part of the versatile 50-year career of Frank ...

Langella, who in the 1970s won acclaim as Dracula on Broadway and went on to play the shadowy count in the 1979 film “Dracula,” played Judge Julius Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar-nominated ...

Langella, 84, known for his performances both onscreen and onstage, shot to fame in the title role of the 1979 film “Dracula” after starring in a Broadway production as the count.

The Count is arguably the most famous vampire ever depicted on film. Cage joins the long list of actors who have portrayed Dracula onscreen, including Bela Lugosi, Gary Oldman, and Frank Langella.

Langella, 84, known for his performances both onscreen and onstage, shot to fame in the title role of the 1979 film “Dracula” after starring in a Broadway production as the count.