Jonathan Frid, 87, the Canadian actor who popularized the character of Barnabas Collins in the original 1960s series Dark Shadows, died last week — on Friday the 13th. Johnny Depp, who plays Collins ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jonathan Frid, a Canadian actor who played the emotionally complex vampire Barnabas Collins in the 1960s daytime television serial "Dark Shadows," has died, the Los Angeles ...

TORONTO (AP) — 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. Frid died Friday of natural causes ...

Late actor Jonathan Frid gave Johnny Depp his blessing to star in a big screen version of his supernatural TV series Dark Shadows by sending him a handwritten letter and an autographed photo. Depp ...

LOS ANGELES -- Jonathan Frid, the man known to fans around the world as Barnabas Collins, the suave vampire from the cult hit soap opera "Dark Shadows" has died at age 87. The Hamilton Spectator, of ...

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 ...

Jonathan Frid -- a part of TV lore as "Dark Shadows' " Barnabas Collins -- died Friday, April 13, according to news reports out of his native Canada. He was 87. Frid -- reputed to be a fine stage ...

Just in time for Halloween, a new web site, wwwjonathanfrid.com, has been launched honoring Jonathan Frid’s work as daytime TV’s first vampire, Barnabas Collins, on DARK SHADOWS, the supernatural soap ...

There’s a reason that Dark Shadows never stays dead for too long but is always being resurrected, whether as a primetime soap or an audio drama or an expensive big-screen disaster. (Damn you, Tim ...

A nervous Jonathan Frid, who played vampire Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows, was known for forgetting his dialogue.Courtesy photo In 1966, a weird daytime soap opera debuted on ABC. Unlike most soaps ...