Willem Dafoe, Shadow Of The Vampire (2000) You may recall that earlier in this article, we noted that when "Nosferatu" was released in 1922, Max Schreck was so unknown to the German populace that ...
Dafoe found his inner bloodsucker in this mischievous thriller, playing silent film actor Max Schreck as he gets a little too deep into the title role of the German Expressionist classic ...
In that film, Willem Dafoe appears as Max Schreck, who plays Count Orlok. In Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, Dafoe plays Prof.
And so there was a legend that Max Schreck was a real vampire. And so, Willem Dafoe, in “Shadow of the Vampire,” plays Max Schreck as a real vampire. And it is an incredible performance.
“To play Max Schreck, I had this beautiful model of him in Nosferatu,” Dafoe tells Empire of his preparation. “I watched it a ...
starring John Malkovich as filmmaker Murnau and one Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, who starts to scare the crew with his take on Orlok. Fans have been tickled to see Dafoe once more in a Nosferatu ...