Here are some resons that in my view that Christopher Lee

[Daniel]

Was  not typecast as Dracula

reason 1 he played the Frankenstein Monster 1st
reason 2 Peter Cushing got top billing in Horror of Dracula if you remember his name was first in the opening credits and closing credits and PC played the first sequeal and Christopher Lee did not untill the third

Reason 3 Mr Lee's Refusal to play it agian unless it is word for word Bram Stoker


do any of you disagree with this if you do you not being fair

[Joe Skinnell]

  Daniel,
  When an actor plays a role that he becomes as heavely indentified with as is the case of Mr. Lee and Dracula, typecasting does occur. Despite what roles he has played before or after Dracula, this character will stay with him for life. Even today, 30 years after his last appearance, newspapers, magazine's and television all have to refer to Dracula whenever they talk about him. This, of course, is not only completely unfair, but is a giant slight to all the fantastic roles he played before and since.
  200 years from now if you were to look CL up in a who's who of the film world, it will show Dracula before any of his other accomplishments.
   Very sad, but very true. We as his fans can help to soften this stereotyping by our referances to him. However, much like Karloff, Chaney (both Sr. & Jr.) Lugosi, Price and Peter Cushing to name a few, the stereotype will remain.

[Daniel]

I Still disagree Joe yea he played 20  times and that i can see you your point but he also did play the role for 9 years after the first one but you can say that Lugosi did not play the role for 13 years after the first but Dracula has risen from the grave Taste the blood of Dracula and Scars of Dracula Christhopher Lee was given less screen time than that on Horror of Dracula and Dracula Price of Darkness and with that i must say for once i'm right CL was Not typecast as Count Dracula as Peter Cushing was not typecast as Baron Frankenstein or Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster nut i do say Bela was Typecast as Dracula and Lon Chaney Jr was Typecast as the Wolfman

[Joakim Lundberg]

Daniel! Boris Karloff was typecast as the monster. He knew this himself. But it wasn't until his last film "Targets"
people realised he was more than that. It is like Joe said
our duty to take away this image and fill that image with
other parts. The examples you take up like the fact that
Peter Cushing appeard first in the opening credits and that
is the reason he wasn't typecast????. This was his first film as the count. Nor the studio or Mr Lee could maybe not
realize what would happen later. The anserw to why he did the other films are in the question section. Less screen time doesn't matter to the press and the D fanatics he will
always be refered to one role. Not for me and for other members he will not.

[Alfonso Casal]

With all due respect, Daniel, I don't think the reasons you offer hold much water:  1)  Ok, so Mr. Lee played the Creature before he played the Count.  What does that have to do with your argument?  He played (a character based on) Reinhard Heydrich before that, and Seurat before that.  I don't see what the order of parts played has to do with the issue of typecasting.  2) Peter Cushing received top-billing in HOD because he was already a celebrated stage, film, and especially television, actor who enjoyed great "name recognition."

As for the rest, I agree with Joe and Joakim; and would add that not only was Bela Lugosi STRONGLY typecast as Dracula, but that in that particular instance the typecasting had a very tragic impact on his life.

[Daniel]

I'm Sorry Alfonso it is just how I think I respect your opinon and maybe your right you probly are right but untill you prove it to me man i have to stick to my opinon ok