Christopher Lee, Hammer Horror films
No list of Draculas would be complete without the great Christopher Lee—outstanding in everything (and handily stealing scenes in the huge Lord of the Rings and Star Wars franchises), but especially memorable in the Hammer Horror films that helped make him a movie star. Dracula (also known as Horror of Dracula, 1958) was his first turn as the caped fiend, and also features his frequent co-star Peter Cushing as Drac’s nemesis Van Helsing. Lee played the vampire again in 1966’s Dracula Prince of Darkness, 1968’s Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, and multiple times in the 1970s, up until his seventh and final turn in 1973’s The Satanic Rites of Dracula.
