Frank Langella has a rare distinction of having earned a prestigious Tony Award nomination for playing Dracula in the 1977 Broadway production of Bram Stoker's novel. He was tapped to reprise the role in the film adaptation Dracula (1979), alongside the legendary Laurence Olivier as Dr. Van Helsing.

Though Bela Lugosi is Universal's most famous Dracula, he's not the only actor to take up the cape in the studio's original horror Golden Age. John Carradine got there eventually, of course, but in this U.S.-set story, the role of Dracula falls to Lon Chaney Jr.