Michael Sheen of David Frost in 2008's "Frost/Nixon", a film dramatisation of The Nixon Interviews of 1977. Despite appearing in the original stage production in a part written for him by Peter Morgan, Sheen was surprised to have been cast in the film: "Peter said he'd only be prepared to give the rights to someone who would cast me as Frost, which was very nice, but when the studios get their hands on something... Right up until we started filming I was prepared to be disappointed". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" asserted that Sheen embodied his character in a "compelling, intense"
Dracula in popular culture is a 1979 film written and directed by Harry Hurwitz, who was credited as "Harry Tampa". This was the fourth and final time John Carradine played Count Dracula. In 1979 Frank Langella starred as a sexually charged version of the Count in the big budget film "Dracula" directed by John Badham and featuring a score by John Williams. Based on the 1977 Broadway revival of the 1927 Deane-Balderston play, in which Langella had starred in the title role, it also starred Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing and Donald Pleasence as Dr. Seward. "Love at First Bite" (1979) is a romantic