Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Jonathan Frid" in English language version.
The documentary mentions a detail which hadn't been publicly mentioned before, that Frid struggled with dyslexia and found learning lines at the rate necessary stressful.
One of the most significant portrayals of a vampire in history: Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins…he played what was the first sympathetic, angst-driven vampire, paving the way for the likes of Lestatt, Angel, Nick Night, and Edward Cullin, among many others.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) (2002). Jonathan Frid (official site). Archived from the original on July 20, 2011.... died Saturday [April 14] ... a family representative told Newsday.
Frid...was president of the Dramatic Society at Hamilton's McMaster University (among other roles Father Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street).
Jonathan Frid, a Shakespearean actor who found unexpected — and by his own account unwanted — celebrity as the vampire Barnabas Collins on the sanguinary soap opera 'Dark Shadows', died last Saturday, April 14, in Hamilton, Ontario. He was 87. ...
When Barnabas the Vampire (Actor Jonathan Frid) goes on personal appearance tours, he is apt to pull 25,000 people at a time.
Jonathan Frid, a Shakespearean actor who found unexpected — and by his own account unwanted — celebrity as the vampire Barnabas Collins on the sanguinary soap opera 'Dark Shadows', died last Saturday, April 14, in Hamilton, Ontario. He was 87. ...
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) (2002). Jonathan Frid (official site). Archived from the original on July 20, 2011.