Count Dracula (Nosferatu, the Vampyre)

Count Dracula is the main antagonist of the 1979 film, ''Nosferatu the Vampyre. ''He is based upon the original character, Count Orlock from the original 1922 film. Though unlike the original character, was pure evil in nature, this version of Dracula merely merely yearns for human love and is tragic in personality.

He was portrayed by Klaus Kinski.

Biography
In the successful 1979 remake, Orlok and all the other characters still keep they're original appearances, but their names have been changed to the names that they had in Bram Stoker's Dracula, from which the film was originally based on. Orlok (or in this version, known as Dracula) looks more like a pathetic, lonely looking vampire. While he still looks the same, with the fangs and claws, in this version, he is yearning for human love.

 At the beginning of the film, he has managed to already bring the plague to the town and the townspeople, managing to kill hundreds, including every last one of the authorities. When he invites Jonathan Harker to his castle, he bites him during his sleep, infecting him with the vampiric curse and eventually travels to the town. Now aware that something other than plague is responsible for the death that has beset her once-peaceful town, Lucy desperately tries to convince the townspeople, but they are skeptical and uninterested. She finds that she can vanquish Dracula's evil by distracting him at dawn, but at the expense of her own life. She lures the Count to her bedroom, where he proceeds to drink her blood.



 Lucy's beauty and purity distract Dracula from the call of the rooster, and at the first light of day, he collapses to the floor. Van Helsing arrives to discover Lucy, dead but victorious. He then drives a stake through the heart of the Count to make sure Lucy's sacrifice was not in vain.



 But in a final, chilling twist ending, Jonathan Harker awakes from his sickness, now a vampire, and arranges for Van Helsing's arrest. Harker is last seen traveling away on horseback, stating enigmatically that he has much to do.