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Jonathan Frid
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Actor Born: 1923 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Biography:Canadian actor "Jonathan Frid" received his master's degree in drama from Yale University. Frid spent the first 20 years of his professional life as a Shakespearean actor in both Ontario and the United States, and as a daytime-drama performer on such American series as Look Up and Live and "As the World Turns". Work was seldom steady, and Frid was often as not in the unemployment line instead of the dressing room. Going the casting office rounds in 1966, Frid was hired by producer "Dan Curtis" to play a crucial role in a new ABC soap opera, "Dark Shadows". At first glance, this was nothing out of the ordinary for a fortyish utility actor; but at second glance, there was nothing ordinary about "Dark Shadows". The first Gothic daytime drama, "Dark Shadows" was chock full of ghosts, family curses, howls in the night-- and one 175-year-old vampire, Barnabas Collins. Frid's interpretation of Barnabas... Full Biography
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