The first screen portrayal of Dracula
was so eerie, some critics asked whether the actor himself
could be a vampire. But since his death, little has been done
to resurrect Max Schreck's reputation -- until now.
Schreck is best remembered for playing the cadaverous
vampire Count Orlok in F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic
"Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror," the first, unauthorized
cinematic adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
The rest of his career has been largely forgotten --
unjustly, in the view of German author Stefan Eickhoff, who has
written what he says is the first biography of Schreck.
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