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He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre.
Raymond Huntley, who had performed the role of Dracula for four years in England, was engaged by Liveright to star in the U.S. touring production. The national tour began on 17 September 1928 in Atlantic City, New Jersey .
Raymond Huntley as Dracula. This is the origin of the Halloween Dracula. When the play was brought to America in the late 1920s, Bela Lugosi played the title role, a role he would make...
Huntley was reputedly the first actor to play Dracula on stage (in Hamilton Deane 's hit 1927 London adaptation of the original novel), though it is fair to point out that an earlier reading of the play took place on May 18th, 1897, at the Lyceum Theatre, arranged by none other than the author Bram Stoker himself.
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Oct 20, 2022 · He didn’t muster the courage to present it to a London audience until 1927 when he opened it at the Little Theatre on February 14 with Raymond Huntley as Dracula and himself as the vampire’s nemesis, Professor Van Helsing. Despite a drubbing from the critics, the play ran for 391 performances.
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Mar 28, 2009 · Distinguished British actor Raymond Huntley was the first stage Dracula in the 1920s, and 60 years later Daniel Day-Lewis dyed his hair blond to play him in the theatre.
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Oct 9, 2014 · Lugosi originally got the role of Dracula on stage when Raymond Huntley refused to go to Broadway over a salary dispute. Because his English was so choppy, Lugosi had to be directed in French.
