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Barnabas Collins is a fictional character, a featured role in the ABC daytime serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971. Barnabas is a 175-year-old vampire in search of fresh blood and his lost love, Josette .
The iconic image of Frid as Barnabas Collins adorned comic books, paperback gothic novels, bubble gum cards and even a board game, complete with coffin. Screaming teenagers thronged to his personal appearances like he was one of the Beatles. [65] [66] Frid during a 10-city Dark Shadows promotional tour, Charleston, South Carolina, May 1968
Abigail Collins, Barnabas' religiously fanatic aunt, immediately becomes suspicious of Victoria's strange clothes and behavior, and accuses her of being possessed by the devil. Joshua Collins, Barnabas' gruff and stern father, agrees to hire Victoria as Sarah's governess. Barnabas eagerly awaits the arrival of Josette du Pres who he will marry.
Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.
In the 2011 film Dark Shadows, vampire character Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) tells a group of hippies, "I am reminded of a line from Erich Segal's Love Story: 'Love means never having to say you are sorry.' However, please know that it is with sincere regret... that I must now kill all of you." [6]
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).
In the 2012 Dark Shadows film, Angelique (portrayed by French actress Eva Green) is an amazingly powerful and resilient witch, and a successful local businesswoman and community symbol. Her interest in Barnabas, after he is unwittingly released from her imprisonment, is again inflamed and she immediately seeks him out.
Title Release Date Heroine Notes 1 Dark Shadows: December 1966 Victoria Winters A partial re-telling of Victoria Winters's arrival in Collinsport. Originally printed with an illustrated cover, subsequent editions featured a photographic cover featuring Alexandra Moltke with Jonathan Frid, although the character of Barnabas Collins does not appear.