 However, Dracula would ultimately become a role which would prove to be both a blessing and a curse.Despite his earlier stage successes in a variety of roles, from the moment Lugosi donned the cape on screen, it would forever see him typecast as the Count.Browning would go on to direct Lugosi once more in another vampire thriller, "Mark of the Vampire", a 1935 remake of his lost silent film "London After Midnight" (1927).