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Christopher Frayling

October 2021

  • Lord Gowrie agreed to play the vampire Lord Ruthven in a BBC television series.

    Letter: Lord Gowrie obituary

    Birth name inspired me to cast Arts Council chairman as a vampire

August 2021

  • Prof. Phillip King, sculptor.

    Letter: Phillip King obituary

    Christopher Frayling writes: As well as being a great sculptor, Phillip was a man of integrity and courage

January 2018

  • English Director, Alfred Hitchcock<br>English film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), London, 1956. (Photo by © Baron/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

    A brush with greatness
    The day Alfred Hitchcock spoke one word to me (and the 40 years it took me to understand it)

    It’s summer 1966 in Cambridge, and Christopher Frayling’s Q&A with the great director takes an enigmatic twist

May 2012

  • Still from Dracula film

    Author, author
    Dracula: the man behind the cape

    A hundred years after Bram Stoker's death, writes Christopher Frayling, we still know remarkably little about the creator of the best-known vampire in literary and film history