As portrayed by Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's 1922 classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. This was the first film of the production company Prana-Film GmbH; it was also the last as they declared bankruptcy after Bram Stoker's estate—acting for his widow, Florence Stoker—sued for copyright infringement and won. The court ordered all existing prints of Nosferatu destroyed, but thankfully a number of copies of the film had already been distributed around the world and survived.
