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  1. Apr 20, 2012 · Jonathan Frid, a Shakespearean actor who found unexpected — and by his own account unwanted — celebrity as the vampire Barnabas Collins on the sanguinary soap opera “Dark Shadows,” died ...

  2. Apr 19, 2012 · By. Actor Jonathan Frid, who played imposing and elegant vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows," has died at 87. Frid passed away on April 14 from natural causes in his ...

  3. Jonathan Frid (December 2, 1924 – April 14, 2012) [1] was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows. [2] The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire caused the floundering daytime drama to soar to 20 million daily viewers. [ 3 ]

  4. Apr 20, 2012 · He was 87. Frid died Friday of natural causes in a hospital in his home town of Hamilton, Ontario, said Jim Pierson, a friend and spokesman for Dan Curtis Productions, the creator of "Dark Shadows." Frid starred in the 1960s gothic-flavored soap opera about odd, supernatural goings-on at a family estate in Maine.

  5. Apr 19, 2012 · Just a few weeks before his most famous character was to be reborn, the original Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows has died. Jonathan Frid, the Canadian actor who brought the suave bloodsucker to ...

  6. Apr 20, 2012 · He was 87. Frid died April 13 of natural causes at a hospital in his hometown of Hamilton, Canada, said Jim Pierson, a spokesman for Dan Curtis Productions, which produced”Dark Shadows.”. The ...

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  8. Apr 20, 2012 · Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, best known for playing lead role Barnabas Collins in the 1960s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows, has died aged 87. The star died of natural causes in a hospital in his ...