Canadian amateur Jonathan Frid, brilliant of the aboriginal Dark Shadows, has died at the age of 87. He anesthetized abroad Friday in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.

Frid was best accepted as the amiable vampire Barnabas Collins on ABC’s gothic soap opera from 1967-71 and in the 1970 cine House Of Dark Shadows.

Jonathan Frid additionally has a adornment in Warner Bros’ accessible Dark Shadows reboot, directed by the abundant Tim Burton, as an earlier adaptation of Barnabas.

He meets up with the adolescent adaptation of himself, played by Johnny Depp.


While Frid wasn’t in Dark Shadows during its 1966 debut, his alluringly awful Barnabas bound became the brilliant back he abutting several months later.

After the alternation ended, Frid alternate to theater, assuming Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare and a continued run on Broadway in Arsenic And Old Lace.

A Yale graduate, he appeared in several films including Oliver Stone’s 1974 authoritative admission Seizure. He abounding fan conventions able-bodied into old age.

You can see him in Dark Shadows with Depp on May 11.