Count Orlok (German: Graf Orlok; Romanian: Contele Orlok; Hungarian: Orlok gróf), also known colloquially as Nosferatu, is a fictional character who first appeared in the silent film Nosferatu (1922) directed by F. W. Murnau. Based on Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula, he is played by German actor Max Schreck, and is depicted as a repulsive vampire descended from Belial, who leaves his homeland of Transylvania to spread the plague in the idyllic city of Wisborg in Biedermeier-period Germany, only to find death at the hands of a self-sacrificing woman.
Count Orlok would reappear in remakes, played by Klaus Kinski, Doug Jones and Bill Skarsgård, as well as in comic book adaptations and sequels.
