Dracula Facts, Trivia, Actors, Actresses, and Composers

Dracula is a 1931 vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Renfield , a British solicitor, travels through the Carpathian Mountains via stagecoach. The people in the stagecoach are fearful that the coach won’t reach the local inn before sundown. Arriving there safely before sundown, Renfield refuses to stay at the inn and asks the driver to take him to...
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Release date:	February 12, 1931
Directed by:	Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Runtime:	75 Minutes
Producer:	Tod Browning, Carl Laemmle Jr.
Editor:	Milton Carruth
Music by:	Philip Glass
Cinematography:	Karl Freund
Screenplay by:	Garrett Fort
Estimated budget:	$355,000
Adapted from:	Dracula
Genre:	Fantasy

Cast of Dracula

Béla Lugosi

Count Dracula

Born:Oct. 20, 1882

Died:Aug. 16, 1956

David Manners

Jonathan Harker

Born:Apr. 30, 1901

Died:Dec. 23, 1998

Dwight Frye

Renfield

Born:Feb. 22, 1899

Died:Nov. 7, 1943

Edward Van Sloan

Abraham Van Helsing

Born:Nov. 1, 1882

Died:Mar. 6, 1964

Helen Chandler

Mina Harker

Born:Feb. 1, 1906

Died:Apr. 30, 1965

Joan Standing

Born:June 21, 1903

Died:Feb. 3, 1979

Film director of Dracula

Tod Browning

Born: July 12, 1880

Died: October 6, 1962

Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter. Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras. Best known as the director of Dracula , the cult classic Freaks , and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Browning directed many movies in a wide...
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Title	Released	Genre
Miracles for Sale	1939
The Devil-Doll	1936	Science Fiction
Mark of the Vampire	1935	Thriller
Fast Workers	1933
Freaks	1932	Thriller
Iron Man	1931
Dracula	1931	Fantasy
Outside the Law	1930
The Thirteenth Chair	1929
Where East is East	1929	Adventure
The Big City	1928
West of Zanzibar	1928
London After Midnight	1927	Thriller
The Show	1927
The Unknown	1927
The Road to Mandalay	1926
The Blackbird	1926
The Mystic	1925
Dollar Down	1925
The Unholy Three	1925	Thriller
Silk Stocking Sal	1924
The Dangerous Flirt	1924
White Tiger	1923
Drifting	1923
The Day of Faith	1923
Under Two Flags	1922
Man Under Cover	1922
The Wise Kid	1922	Comedy
No Woman Knows	1921
Outside the Law	1920
The Virgin of Stamboul	1920
Victory	1919
Bonnie Bonnie Lassie	1919	Comedy
The Petal on the Current	1919
The Unpainted Woman	1919
The Exquisite Thief	1919
The Wicked Darling	1919
Set Free	1918	Comedy
The Brazen Beauty	1918	Comedy
The Deciding Kiss	1918	Comedy
Which Woman?	1918
Revenge	1918	Western
The Eyes of Mystery	1918
Russian Women's Legion of Death	1918
The Jury of Fate	1917
Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp	1917
Hands Up!	1917	Western
A Love Sublime	1917
Jim Bludso	1917
Puppets	1916	Short Film
The Fatal Glass of Beer	1916	Short Film
Everybody's Doing It	1916	Short Film
Little Marie	1915	Short Film
The Woman from Warren's	1915	Short Film
The Burned Hand	1915	Short Film
The Living Death	1915	Short Film
The Electric Alarm	1915	Short Film
The Spell of the Poppy	1915	Short Film
The Story of a Story	1915	Short Film
The Highbinders	1915	Short Film
An Image of the Past	1915	Short Film
The Slave Girl	1915	Short Film
The Lucky Transfer	1915	Short Film

Karl Freund

Born: January 16, 1890

Died: May 3, 1969

Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. was a cinematographer and film director most noted for photographing Metropolis , Dracula , and television's I Love Lucy . Born in Dvůr Králové , Bohemia, his career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he got a job as an assistant projectionist for a film company...
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Title	Released	Genre
Mad Love	1935
Gift of Gab	1934	Comedy
I Give My Love	1934
Madame Spy	1934
Moonlight and Pretzels	1933	Musical
The Mummy	1932
Dracula	1931	Fantasy

Music contributors for Dracula

Philip Glass

Philip Glass is an American composer. One of the highest profile composers writing "classical" music today, he is often said to be one of the most...
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Prequels and sequels to Dracula

Dracula

1931

Dracula's Daughter

1936

Filming locations for Dracula

Vasquez Rocks

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 905-acre park located in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, in northern Los Angeles County, California. It is in the Agua Dulce vicinity between the Antelope Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles and seen easily by motorists driving the Antelope...
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Frequently Asked Questions

Q:
The movie, "Dracula" is in what genre?
A:
The film is categorized as... Horror film, Black-and-white and Pre-Code.
Q:
Who was the writer for the film Dracula?
A:
Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston and Garrett Fort performed the movie's screenwriting.
Q:
Who composed the music for the movie Dracula?
A:
Philip Glass composed sheet music for the movie's soundtrack.
Q:
Which actors were the stars of the motion picture, "Dracula"?
A:
Béla Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan and Frances Dade played leading roles in the movie.
Q:
When was the movie "Dracula" premiered?
A:
The film was released in February, 1931.
Q:
Who was the distributor of the movie, "Dracula"?
A:
Universal Studios was the film's distributor.
Q:
Who directed the film "Dracula"?
A:
Tod Browning was the film's director.
Q:
Who produced the movie, "Dracula"?
A:
Tod Browning and Carl Laemmle Jr. produced the film.
Q:
What was the tagline from the film, Dracula?
A:
The film's slogan was, "The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!"
Q:
How many minutes is the runtime of the movie "Dracula"?
A:
The runtime is 75 minutes.

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