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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 ]
House of Dark Shadows is a 1970 American feature-length horror film produced and directed by Dan Curtis, based on his Dark Shadows television series. In this film expansion, vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) searches for a cure for vampirism so he can marry a woman who resembles his long-lost fiancée Josette (Kathryn Leigh Scott).
Unlike Frid's television portrayal of Barnabas, the Barnabas featured in the film was truer to a typical evil vampire, who by the end of the film had killed half of the Collins family. Barnabas himself is killed by Jeff Clark, now depicted as Maggie's boyfriend, and a dying Willie Loomis, when Barnabas tries to make Maggie Evans his vampire bride.
Born in 1774 in France, her widowed father was Andre du Pres (David Ford) a wealthy sugarcane planter on the Caribbean island of Martinique.Raised by her father and her paternal aunt, the Countess Natalie du Pres (Grayson Hall), the lovely and sympathetic Josette came to Collinsport, Maine in 1795 to marry Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid).
It appeared in several newspaper articles including: Ashbury Park Press (New Jersey), Vol 3 Issue 32 Aug. 19, 1989 "Jonathan Frid Out of the Dark" by Seli Groves; The Hamilton Spectator Oct. 17, 1990 Pgs.E1-E2 "Out of the Shadows" by Steward Brown; South Bend Tribune (Indiana) Nov. 21, 1991 "Frid brings 1-man show to area stage" by Sara Marley ...
Grayson Hall (born Shirley Grossman; September 18, 1922 – August 7, 1985) was an American television, film and stage actress.She was widely regarded for her avant-garde theatrical performances from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Bachman, who dropped out of college to become a photographer after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, took more than 1,200 photos of the protest and was up until 4 a.m. transferring files to his laptop.
John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz; May 28, 1933 – January 22, 2020) was an American character actor who played multiple roles on the ABC serial Dark Shadows on and off from 1967 to 1971.