Dacre Stoker
Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American writer, teacher and former modern pentathlete and coach based in Aiken, South Carolina.
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Dacre Stoker
- Birth Name
- Dacre Calder Stoker
- Birthplace
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Born
- 23 August 1958
- Occupation
- * Writer
- Spouse
- Jenness Stoker
- Education
- St.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Fields
- literary activity · documentary film · film direction · modern pentathlon
- Languages
- English
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• Birth Name — Dacre Calder Stoker • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Born — 23 August 1958 • Occupation — * Writer • teacher • modern pentathlete • coach • Spouse — Jenness Stoker • Relatives — Charlotte Stoker (great-great-grandmother) Thornley Stoker (great-uncle) Bram Stoker (great-uncle) • Education — St. Lawrence University • Website — http: dacrestoker.com/
Early life and education
Early life and education
Dacre Calder Stoker was born on August 23, 1958 in Montreal, Quebec to Desmond Neil Stoker (1927–1983) and Eleanor Gail Stoker (Calder; 1933–2018). Stoker's mother was a nurse. Stoker has two sisters. Through his father Stoker is the great-grandson of the military surgeon George Stoker (1854–1920), and is the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker and great-great-grandson of Charlotte Stoker. Stoker was educated at Bishop's College School before studying physical education at St. Lawrence University.
Career
Career
Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team, and was the coach for the 1988 Olympic Canadian pentathlon team. Stoker was a teacher at Appleby College and Aiken Preparatory School. In 2009, Stoker co-wrote his debut novel Dracula the Un-dead with Ian Holt, based on Dracula. In 2012, Stoker and Professor Elizabeth Miller published The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years which details sections of a journal written by Bram Stoker between 1871–1882. Together with Bram Stoker's great-grandson Robin Guy MacCaw, Stoker and his wife Jennes Stroker are the co-owners of Bram Stoker LLC, which represents the descendants of Bram Stoker in the UK and controls the international rights and trademarks of the Bram Stoker Estate.
Personal life
Personal life
Stoker is married to Jenness Stoker (née Fick; born 1954).
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Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Type — Director — Writer — Notes — Ref(s) • 2021 — In Search of Bram Stoker's Castle: Dracula's Castle — Documentary film — Corneliu Țepeluş — Dacre Stoker — Also narrator
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- 1.About Us. Aiken Streetscapes. 2020-06-19.
- 2.Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Dracula sequel goes back to source. CBC Arts. 28 October 2009.
- 3.U.S. Public Records Index. Dacre Calder Stoker. Voter Registration Lists; Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings. 1. 1993.
- 4.National Archives. Desmond Neil Stoker. Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests; Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004. 1959.
- 5.STOKER, Desmond Neil. The Gazette. 74. 19 May 1983.
- 6.STOKER, Eleanor. The Gazette. C13. 12 May 2018.
- 7.Barnett, David. 21 years after Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', his great-grandnephew has resurrected the vampire. and his creator. The Independent. 11 October 2018.
- 8.Doyle, Carmel. Stoker, Sir (William) Thornley. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy. 2009.
- 9.Mediahuis Ireland. Stoker's mother 'very ahead of her time'. Irish Independent. 25 April 2012.
- 10.Matheson. B.C.S. 1975. Bishop's College School. 95. 58. 1975.
- 11.St. Lawrence University. Gridiron 1981 [Yearbook]. 221. 1981.
- 12.Kenneth MacKendrick. Surprise, revisiting Dracula a marketing plan. Winnipeg Free Press. October 17, 2009.
- 13.Aiken Preparatory School. Aiken Knight 2000. 3–6. 2000.
- 14.Kelly, Stuart. Book review: The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker; The Dublin Years. The Scotsman. 28 April 2012.
- 15.Bram Stoker LLC. Bram Stoker Estate. 2022.
- 16.Adam Matthew Digital. Jubilee Address for Queen Victoria. The Nineteenth Century Stage.
- 17.Downes, Daniel. Transproperty: Intellectual property and the ideal property form. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. 6. 4. 2016. 10.16995/dscn.22.
- 18.Companies House. Certificate of Incorporation of a Private Limited Company Bram Stoker Limited. 2012.
- 19.U.S. Public Records Index. Jenness R Stoker [Jenness Fick] [Jenness Stoker]. Voter Registration Lists; Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings. 1. 1993.
- 20.Voices of Dracula - Series 1: 10 Short StokerVerse Stories. Amazon.
- 21.Ministerul Culturii. In Search of Bram Stoker's Castle: Dracula's Castle. Timișoara 2023. 2023.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Stoker, Dacre. Dracula the Un-dead. HarperCollins. 2009. 9780007310340.
- Stoker, Dacre. Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland & Co. 1–2. 2010. 978-0786433650.
- Miller. The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years. Robson Press. 2012. 9781849541886.
- Bantam Books. Dracul. 2018. 9780735219342.
- Shepherd, Mike. Slains Castle's Secret History: Warlords, Churchill, and Count Dracula. Amazon Digital Services. 2021. 979-8469387046.
- Stoker, Bram. Dracula Annotated for the 125th Anniversary. Hellbound Books. 2022. 978-1953905376.
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