Count Dracula has been a movie character for decades, but he’s also been depicted on television many times over the years. Whether as the main character or a guest appearance, Dracula is always unforgettable. These thirteen actors have played Count Dracula on television.
Rudolf Martin – In 2000, season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer kicked off with “Buffy vs. Dracula,” an episode featuring Rudolf Martin as Count Dracula himself. After fighting and slaying vampires for several years, Buffy was stunned to come face-to-face with such a famous vamp, and she soon fell under his spell.
Dan Castellaneta – In addition to his ongoing role as Homer Simpson on The Simpsons, Dan Castellaneta provides the voices for several other characters in the animated series. One of these is the voice of Dracula in the annual “Treehouse of Horror” episodes.
Todd Stashwick – Todd Stashwick appeared as Dracula in “Monster Movie,” a fourth-season episode of Supernatural from 2008. Although the Winchester brothers regularly do battle with vampires, werewolves, and other monsters, that’s not exactly what was happening here. Is this episode, a shapeshifter was taking the form of monsters from old movies. Stashwick played the shapeshifter’s version of Dracula.
Keith-Lee Castle – On the 2006 CBBC series Young Dracula, Keith-Lee Castle played Count Dracula. In this series, based on the children’s book by Michael Lawrence, the Count has relocated from Transylvania to England with his children, Vlad and Ingrid. Castle’s version of Dracula isn’t quite what you’d expect.
Michael Nouri – In 1979, Michael Nouri starred in The Curse of Dracula. In this show, Count Dracula resided in San Francisco, where he was a professor of East European history. Nouri’s Dracula was sexy and dangerous. The Curse of Dracula was one of three serialized segments airing as part of NBC’s Cliffhangers. Each episode of Cliffhangers consisted of three short serialized shows. After Cliffhangers was cancelled, The Curse of Dracula segments were compiled and aired as a made-for-TV movie.
Phil Lamarr – On The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Phil Lamarr provided the voice of Dracula, an old friend of Grim’s from way, way back.
Judd Hirsch – Judd Hirsch starred as Dracula in The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t. This 30-minute Halloween special from 1979, also known as The Night Dracula Saved the World, won a Primetime Emmy Award.
Al Lewis – On the campy comedy The Munsters, Al Lewis played a mad scientist who just happened to be able to turn into a bat. Although known as Grandpa Munster, he was actually Lily’s father, not Herman’s, and his last name wasn’t Munster; it was Dracula. In fact, nutty Grandpa Munster was Count Dracula himself.
Geordie Johnson – Dracula is a billionaire industrialist–or at least he was in Dracula: The Series, a 1990 show starring Geordie Johnson as Alexander Lucard. Of course, everyone knows that A. Lucard spells Dracula in reverse.
John Stephenson – The Flintstones even had a version of Dracula. John Stephenson provided the voice for Count Rockula in The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone, as well as in an episode of The New Fred and Barney Show.
Joe Flaherty – Edan Gross was the title character in Little Dracula, a 1991 animated show based on the book series, but Joe Flaherty provided the voice of his dad, Big Dracula.
Robert Bockstael – Robert Bockstael voiced the role of Count Dracula in 1994’s Monster Force, an animated series set in the future. In this show, Dracula led the Creatures of the Night against the Monster Force.
Bent Borgesen – Draculas Ring (Dracula’s Ring in English) was a Danish miniseries from 1978 starring Bent Borgesen. In this show, Dracula started out in Malta–in his coffin–but when some Danish vacationers removed the ring from the coffin, the vampire followed them back to Denmark.