Posted on 04/19/2012 12:54:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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 Hamilton, Ontario, reports the Canadian actor died in his hometown of Hamilton at the Juravinski Hospital on Friday, April 13.
Frid's final screen role was a cameo in "Dark Shadows," the soap opera's upcoming big-screen revamp directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas.
Kathryn Leigh Scott, who co-starred with Frid on the original "Dark Shadows" and recently reunited with him to film her own cameo in the film, paid loving tribute to the actor on her website.
"I am so grateful to have worked with Jonathan, and to have known him as the charismatic, entertaining, complex and plain-spoken man that he was," she wrote. "What fun we had working together! He was irascible, irreverent, funny, caring, lovable and thoroughly professional."
Scott recalled the moment when Frid and Depp first met on the "Dark Shadows" set: "I won't ever forget the moment when the two Barnabas Collinses met, one in his late 80s and the other in his mid-40s, each with their wolf's head canes. Jonathan took his time scrutinizing his successor's appearance. 'I see you've done the hair,' Jonathan said to Johnny Depp, 'but a few more spikes.' Depp, entirely in character, replied, 'Yes, we're doing things a bit differently.'" …
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With him goes a large part of my childhood. He will be missed.
But, of course, he's not really dead.
Not dead dead.
Levon Helm died this morning as well. What is it with celebrities dying in 3’s..very sad..RIP
Robin Gibbs is in a coma. I imagine he will be the third.
As noted on the Howie Carr Show who is putting off the new Death Pool. dark Shadows was MUST watch after school viewing when I was in Jr. High. Also liked the 1990’s version. Angelique was such a naughty girl.
OH MAN THAT SUCKS Sci fi channel was showing reruns for while when that channel first came on the air
OH MAN THAT SUCKS Sci fi channel was showing reruns for while when that channel first came on the air
Dark Shadows - for an 8 year old stuck at grandma’s house waiting for mom to get off work the only bright spot in the wasteland of daytime soap operas.
One of my gay pals said he met Jonathan Frid at a bathhouse
once. hmmmmm...
Anyway,i had to sneak over to a neighbors house to watch Dark Shadows. My mom wouldn’t let me watch that OR Batman.
(the Adam West ones)
The entire “Dark Shadows” series is now availble on Netflix. I used to love this show as a kid. I would go to my cub scout meeting and we would always end up watching this show. Oh, the good ol’ days.
Actually wouldn’t he be the 4th..Dick Clark, Jonathan Frid, Levon Helm, and Robin Gibbs(If he does pass away)
Joan Fontaine
Olivia de Haviland
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pete Seeger
It’s just a matter of time. Death comes for us all.
He was one creepy dude! Levon Helm, Dick Clar, and now this...that’s three, that’s enough.
Somehow my mind blanked on Dick Clark. I actually thought about “is Frid the third?” and I decided “no” — so I figured Robin would be the third. But as you say, if he does pass Gibbs would be 4th. I can’t imagine how I so quickly forgot about Dick Clark. I guess I never imagined he would pass at all.
One of my nieces loved that show. She was staying at my parents and was so engrossed in the show that she did not hear my mom come into the room. My mom said she jumped a foot when she said something to my niece.
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