Information about Jonathan Harker

Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and the protagonist in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

In the novel

Harker is a recently certified solicitor from Exeter, who is sent by his employer to Transylvania in order to consult a client on a property transaction. This client is a mysterious count who lives in a castle in the Carpathian Mountains who is planning to move to London where he plans to reside at Carfax Abbey. Soon after Harker's arrival at the castle, he is made a prisoner by this Count Dracula, who is revealed as a vampire, and has a dangerous encounter with the seductive Brides of Dracula.

Later, he manages to escape, finding refuge at a convent. He has a mental break down upon arriving at the convent because of his encounters with Dracula; his fiancé, Mina Murray, comes to nurse him back to health and marries him there. In some movie versions, one of the results of his imprisonment is his hair becoming prematurely gray. His journals become an integral part the quest to find and destroy Dracula.

In a note following the end of the novel, it is revealed that he has had a child with Mina, and they had named the child Quincey after their mutual friend Quincey Morris, who was killed by Gypsies trying to get Dracula to his castle before sunset. Dracula is incapable of transforming himself between sunrise and sunset, but once sunset has occurred, he can shapeshift and would have been almost impossible for the main characters to apprehend again.

In film

Harker was played by Bosco Hogan in the 1977 telefilm Count Dracula. In the 1992 film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, he was portrayed by Keanu Reeves. Other portrayers include Trevor Eve, Bruno Ganz, Corin Redgrave, David Manners, Steven Weber, John Van Eyssen and Rafe Spall.

Dracula
Characters of Dracula
Count Dracula | Jonathan Harker | Mina Harker | Abraham Van Helsing | Lucy Westenra | Arthur Holmwood | Dr. John Seward | Quincey Morris | Renfield | Brides
Film Adaptations of Dracula (&)=parody
Nosferatu (1922) | Dracula (1931) | Dracula (1931 Spanish Version) | Dracula (1958) | Dracula (1968) | Count Dracula (1970) | Dracula (1973) | Count Dracula (1977) | Dracula (1979) | Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) | Lust at First Bite (1979) (&)| Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | (&) | Dracula (2002) | | Lust For Dracula (2004) (&) | Dracula (2006)
Other films featuring Dracula
Dracula's Daughter (1936) | Son of Dracula (1943) | House of Frankenstein (1944) | House of Dracula (1945) | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | The Brides of Dracula (1960) | | Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) | Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) | Scars of Dracula (1970) | Dracula AD 1972 (1972) | The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) | Love at First Bite (1979) | Dracula 2000 (2000) | Dracula 3000 (2004) | | Van Helsing (2004) | Castlevania (2008)

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