Jonathan Harker

Jonathan Harker
Dracula character
John Van Eyssen as Harker in the 1958 adaptation of Dracula.
Created by	Bram Stoker
Portrayed by	Gustav von Wangenheim (Nosferatu) David Manners (Dracula) John Van Eyssen (Horror of Dracula) Fred Williams (Count Dracula) Bosco Hogan (Count Dracula) Trevor Eve (Dracula) Bruno Ganz (Nosferatu the Vampyre) Bosco Hogan (Count Dracula) Murray Brown (Bram Stoker's Dracula) Keanu Reeves (Bram Stoker's Dracula) Steven Weber (Dracula: Dead and Loving It) Rafe Spall (Dracula) Corey Landis (Dracula Reborn) Unax Ugalde (Dracula 3D) Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Dracula)
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Solicitor
Spouse(s)	Mina Harker (wife)
Children	Quincey Harker (son)
Relatives	Mina Harker Quincey Harker
Religion	Anglican
Nationality	English

Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. His journey to Transylvania and encounter with the vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula constitutes the dramatic opening scenes in the novel and most of the film adaptations. Stoker appropriated the surname from his friend Joseph Cunningham Harker (1855-1920), a set designer at the Lyceum Theatre and father of actor William Gordon Harker (1885-1967) as well as great-grandfather of actress Polly Adams, whose actress-daughters Susannah Harker and Caroline Harker adopted the Harker surname for their stage names.

Harker is a recently admitted solicitor from England, who is deputed by his employer, Mr. Peter Hawkins, of Exeter, to act as an estate agent for a foreign client named Count Dracula who wishes to move to England. Harker discovers in Carfax Abbey, near Purfleet, Essex, a dwelling which suits the client's requirements and travels to Transylvania by train in order to consult with him about it.

At Bistritz Harker takes a coach to the Borgo Pass where at midnight another coach drawn by four black horses, waits to take him to Castle Dracula high in the Carpathian Mountains. At the castle Harker is greeted by the mysterious and ominous Count Dracula and finalises the property transaction. Soon, however Harker realises he has been made a prisoner by his host who is revealed as a vampire. Harker also has a dangerous encounter with the three seductive Brides of Dracula, whose designs on him are only thwarted by the intervention of the Count.