Dracula through the decades

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Bela Lugosi is burned into most movie lovers’ brains as THE Dracula, but he’s hardly the only guy to portray the legendary bloodsucker. Christopher Lee played the Count seven times in the course of 15 years, Leslie Nielsen hammed it up in Mel Brooks’ vampire send-up, and John Carradine got to portray Dracula in a battle against, of all people, Billy the Kid. Ah, the ’60s ...

Plus, do you think playing Dracula helped Frank Langella prepare for a role as another famous cultural villain in “Frost/Nixon”?

Here are 10 of the most notable movie Draculas:

1931: “Dracula” (Bela Lugosi)

1943: “Son of Dracula” (Lon Chaney Jr.)

1958: “Horror of Dracula” (Christopher Lee)

1966: “Billy the Kid vs. Dracula” (John Carradine)

1974: “Andy Warhol’s Dracula” (Udo Kier)

1979: “Dracula” (Frank Langella)

1992: “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (Gary Oldman)

1995: “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” (Leslie Nielsen)

2000: “Dracula 2000” (Gerard Butler)

2004: “Van Helsing” (Richard Roxburgh)

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