Nosferatu (1922)
Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu invented vampire cinema and still frightens a century later. The estate sued anyway and won, and a court ordered every copy destroyed.
Actor: Greta Schroder
Greta Schröder played Ellen in Nosferatu, whose sacrifice destroys the vampire, and the final image of her at the window is among the most reproduced in silent cinema. She married the film’s production designer.