Profile
Jonathan Frid
Actor + Director
Male
Born
Dec 2, 1924
Hometown
Ontario
Died
Apr 14, 2012
Death Place
Ontario
Nationality
Canadian People
Other Names
Jonathan Frid
John Herbert "Jonathan" Frid was a Canadian theater, television, and film actor, best known for having played the role of vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows.
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Lauren FrancisFling 1961
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‘avengers’ Sets 2 Nd Weekend Record $104 M – Still #1 Phenom Nearing $1 B Global; Anemic ‘dark Shadows’ Creeping To $28.5 MDeadline Hollywood - May 13, 2012
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Review: Overly Retrolicious Dark Shadows Could Use A Lot More Gothic EleganceMovie Line - May 10, 2012
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'God Bless' Satirizes What's Wrong With AmericaDaily Herald Blogs - May 10, 2012
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CHILDHOOD
1924
Birth
Born on December 2, 1924.
TWENTIES
1948
23 Years Old
He graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton in 1948, and the following year was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
1954
29 Years Old
He moved to the United States in 1954, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing from the Yale School of Drama in 1957.
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THIRTIES
1962
37 Years Old
He began using the stage name Jonathan Frid in 1962, and made his Broadway debut as an understudy in the 1964 play Roar Like a Dove.
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FORTIES
1966
41 Years Old
Frid is widely known for the role of vampire Barnabas Collins on the original gothic cult television serial Dark Shadows, which ran from 1966 to 1971.
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1973
48 Years Old
In 1973, Frid appeared in the TV movie The Devil's Daughter starring Shelley Winters, and the following year starred in Oliver Stone's directorial debut, Seizure (aka Queen of Evil).
FIFTIES
1978
53 Years Old
He took time off from acting and returned to Canada, reviving his stage career in 1978.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2000
75 Years Old
In 2000, he starred in the play Mass Appeal which enjoyed a successful, limited run in Hamilton and at the Stirling Festival Theatre in Stirling, Ontario.
2007
82 Years Old
Frid attended Dark Shadows conventions in New York in August 2007, Burbank, California, in July 2008, and Elizabeth, New Jersey, in August 2009.
2010
85 Years Old
In 2010, he returned to the role of Barnabas for the first time in 39 years in a Dark Shadows audio drama, The Night Whispers.
2011
86 Years Old
Along with former Dark Shadows castmates Lara Parker, David Selby and Kathryn Leigh Scott, Frid spent three days at Pinewood Studios in June 2011 filming a cameo appearance for the 2012 Tim Burton Dark Shadows film, which became his final film appearance. Frid died in April 2012 at Juravinski Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario of pneumonia and complications after a fall.
2012
87 Years Old
While sources at the time variously reported the date of his death as April 13 or April 14, 2012, Frid's nephew, David Howitt, subsequently confirmed that Frid in fact died in the early hours of April 14, 2012.
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