Johann Schreck (1576-1630), German Jesuit, missionary to China, and polymath
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For much of the 1990s Schreck was an editor at Dark Horse Comics, and went on to found Oni Press in 1997.
He was in contact with all important scientists of his time: Johannes Kepler sent his newest astronomic opus, the "Rudolphine Tables" to China, which, however, he was not able to receive: they arrived in Macau 16 years after Schreck's death.
-- spelt without the "c" --> for the Tim Burton film Batman Returns and compared him to the character Max Schreck played in Nosferatu.
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-- Per Wikipedia:Trivia sections, only include items, in prose, with reliable third-party, non-wikipedia cites that source "the effect of the topic on popular culture." -->The person and performance of Max Schreck in Nosferatu has been fictionalized by actor Willem Dafoe in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.
According to Schreck, the murders of Sharon Tate and the others actually resulted from conventional underworld rivalries between drug dealer associates Charles Watson and Jay Sebring, who Schreck contends was linked to the Mafia.