in Hrabe Drakula (1971) Donald Pleasence in Dracula (1979) - here he is father of Lucy. Harvey Korman in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - here he is father of Mina. Dani Lennon (as Dr. Joan Seward) in Dracula Reborn (2012) - here she is doctor in modern-day California, who treats Lina Harker after she gets strange blood condition. Michael Ironside in Dracula the Original Living Vampire (2022) - here he's coroner, who helps detective Van Helsing in her investigation of abnormal murders. In recent years, the trend has been to return Seward to his role in the novel, as a suitor for Lucy's hand in marriage, in: James Maxwell in Dracula (1968) - here he is Lucy’s fiancé. He and Van Helsing team up and jointly defeat Dracula. Mark Burns in Count Dracula (1977) - he is portrayed faithfully to his counterpart in the novel. Richard E. Grant in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - he is portrayed faithfully to his counterpart in the novel. Matthew Johnson in Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) Ibrahim Kutty in Dracula (2005) - an Indian Malayalam-language television series which aired on Asianet. Prasad in Dracula (2008) - an Indian Telugu-language television series which aired on Gemini TV. Tom Burke in Dracula (2006) Matthew Beard in Dracula (2020) - he is re-imagined as modern-day medical student, who has an unrequited crush on Lucy. On stage John Seward appears in Dracula, the musical by Frank Wildhorn. He was played by Shonn Wiley in Broadway production of the musical. Dr. Seward was portrayed by Joseph Taylor in 2019 Northern Ballet's production of Dracula by David Nixon. The production was recorded and showed in UK cinemas on Halloween and then broadcast on BBC4 in 2020. Radio In the 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air radio production of Dracula, Seward's character was combined with Arthur Holmwood's and renamed Arthur Seward. He was voiced by Orson Welles, who also voiced Dracula in the adaptation. In other media In the alternate history novel Anno Dracula (1992), where Van Helsing fails and Dracula becomes the ruler of Britain, Seward becomes the murderer well known as "Jack the Ripper", whose targets are vampire prostitutes who remind him of Lucy (Seward is actually indirectly responsible for this new timeline; an injury he sustained to his hand in a confrontation with Renfield means that Seward hesitates when they discover Dracula attacking Mina,