Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a character of fiction in the novel Dracula (1897) of Bram Stoker. He is of Dutch origin, a advanced age and has a certain number of diplomas of high levels, as attests of them the abbreviations which, on the letters, precede its name: " M.D., D.Ph, D.Litt, etc, etc." , but it is more known as being a hunter of vampire. It carries the same first name as its creator, indeed born Abraham Stoker.

Appearances with the cinema

• Edward Van Sloan in film of Universal Studios Dracula series,
• Peter Cushing in the version of the Hammer Films,
• Nigel Davenport in Dracula and its wives vampires of 1973,
• Laurence Olivier in the edition of 1979,
• Anthony Hopkins in Dracula ( Bram Stoker' S Dracula ) of Coppola (1992),
• Mel Brooks in the parody Dracula, dead and happy to be it ( Dracula: Dead and Loving it ) (1995),
• Hugh Jackman in the film Van Helsing of 2004, but under the name of Gabriel Van Helsing.

To be exact, the character of Cushing in films of Hammer was named J. Van Helsing, as one could off read it in Brides Dracula .

Songs putting it in scene

Van Helsing of the album the hidden side of my feather produces by David TMX.