{"id":19859,"date":"2012-04-19T06:35:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T11:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=19859"},"modified":"2012-04-19T07:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T12:13:51","slug":"jonathan-frid-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/19\/jonathan-frid-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Frid, 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/JonathanFrid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19860\" title=\"JonathanFrid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/JonathanFrid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/JonathanFrid.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/JonathanFrid-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Jonathan Frid, the vampire who set generations of fans&#8217; hearts fluttering as the charismatic Barnabas Collins on the 1960s soap opera <em>Dark Shadows<\/em>, died this past April 14, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada it was announced last night. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p>Although the show did not start out as a daytime drama with a supernatural bent when it premiered in 1966, <em>Dark Shadows<\/em>&#8216;s producers began adding such things as ghosts about six months into its run. But it was the addition of the character Barnabas Collins, a vampire member of the Collins family who had been imprisoned in a tomb for two centuries, and Frid&#8217;s mesmerizing performance that really served to boost the show&#8217;s rating. The series was so popular that it spun off the movie <strong>House Of Dark Shadows<\/strong> in 1970. Although the film did well enough to spawn a sequel, <strong>Night Of Dark Shadows<\/strong>, Frid declined to participate citing fears of being typecast into the role.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Frid was primarily a stage actor with the Dark Shadows series being only one of two forays into television. The other was the 1973 made-for-TV film <em>The Devil&#8217;s Daughter<\/em>. His only other feature film work was in Oliver Stone&#8217;s 1974 directorial debut<strong> Seizure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside his former <em>Dark Shadows<\/em> co-stars Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker and David Selby, Frid had filmed a cameo for director Tim Burton&#8217;s big screen adaption of the series starring Johnny Depp which opens next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actor who brought the vampire Barnabas Collins to television and film has died.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/19\/jonathan-frid-87\/\" title=\"Jonathan Frid, 87\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[3248,5108],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-dark-shadows","9":"tag-jonathan-frid"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19859"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=19859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}