Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.

He went on to star in the first productions at the Williamstown Theater in Williamstown Massachusetts and stage productions in Canada England and the United States. Frid had made plans to move to the U. 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.

John Herbert "Jonathan" Frid (December 2 1924 – April 14 2012) 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.