Vampire films Hungarian accent and sweeping gestures became characteristics now commonly associated with Dracula. Five years after the release of the film, Universal released "Dracula's Daughter" (1936), a direct sequel that starts immediately after the end of the first film. A second sequel, "Son of Dracula" starring Lon Chaney Jr., followed in 1943. Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: "House of Frankenstein" (1944) and "House of Dracula" (1945)—both starring John Carradine—and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). While Lugosi had played a vampire in two other films
Dracula: The Series included Stratford and Shaw festival veteran Jonathan Welsh, well known television and film actors Kim Coates (from "Prison Break") and Barry Morse (from "The Fugitive" and ""), Chas Lawther, Kirsten Kieferle (from ""), and Marina Anderson-Carradine, best known for managing (and then marrying) actor David Carradine. The series was filmed in Luxembourg, and produced by Phil Bedard and Larry Lalonde, best known for their work on "John Woo's Once a Thief" and "". Dracula: The Series Dracula: The Series is a syndicated series about Count Dracula, and was broadcast from September 29, 1990 to May 11, 1991. Count Dracula is