Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He never dreamed that his short-term daytime role would make him a superstar. Jonathan Frid was, not to put too fine a point on it ...

A new documentary recalls the life and career of Jonathan Frid, the actor who played Barnabas Collins, a 175-year-old guilt -ridden vampire on Dark Shadows, the horror-themed daytime soap opera that ...

For a generation of viewers in the late 1960s, Dark Shadows was a daily ritual of chills, romance, and gothic glamour accompanied by the common proclamation, "I used to run home from school to watch ...

Dark Shadows was a daytime drama like no other. From June 27, 1966 until April 2, 1971, it brought tales of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts and time travel to daytime-TV audiences. For three of ...

Long before Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, or even Passions turned sympathetic vampires and melodramatic horror into trends, there was Dark Shadows — an audacious 1960s soap opera drenched in ...

Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor born December 2, 1924, in Hamilton, Ontario, and died April 14, 2012, in the same city. He gained fame for portraying vampire Barnabas Collins in the television ...

TORONTO -- Jonathan Frid, a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows", has died. He was 87.

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