Bram Stoker Bram Stoker Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel "Dracula". During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876) from Dublin and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who was raised in County Sligo. Stoker was the third of seven children, the eldest
Mike Stoker Mike Stoker Charles Michael Stoker (born June 25, 1941, in Los Angeles, California) is a retired firefighter, engineer and captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD). He was an actor on the NBC / Universal TV series "Emergency!" and used his real name for the series (which ran from 1972–1978). Stoker was cast in the role primarily because he was an actor with a Screen Actors Guild card, and a qualified firefighter specialist engineer able to drive and operate the fire engine. During the time "Emergency!" was in production, Stoker was an engineer at LACoFD Station 69 in