Jonathan Frid TV Interview

Jonathan Frid TV Interview

[@monicamckee5752]

He was so incredibly handsome and elegant. The best vampire ever to grace the airwaves, film or theater! He was perfectly cast. Rest in peace, Johnathan Frid. You were a brilliant actor and brought Barnabas Collins to life. Thank you for that.

[@Playitstraight44]

Incredible performance. Society doesn't make men like him anymore.

[@mabel8179]

+Rick Baker True- as Barnabas he is very scary!

[@sherryparkman7635]

Sadley!!!!!!!!'

[@gordontheengineswifedr.nirmal]

Ohhhh soooo true. He was so breathtakingly, gentlemanly unique

[@Bossmanrocks]

Yes, sadly, we have regressed.

[@marilynwillett804]

The woke mentality'' MEN; DON'T BE MASCULINE, If you're manly that's toxic. and young folks believe everything they hear, except the bible.

[@beckyanderson6390]

Love this man.Miss this man. Great actor.

[@Pruner15]

No one could have played Barnabas better than Jonathan. He was perfectly cast.

[@lindalcoomes]

In one of John Karlen's interviews he said that Dan Curtis did not like "Jonnie". I am at a loss as to why. He made DS the success it was.

[@thejupiter2574]

@@lindalcoomes Dark Shadows writer Joseph Caldwell in his book stated that the producer / director Dan Curtis was a bit Homophobic and said Dan Curtis did not know about Frid when he was hired. He said that had Dan known in advance that he would he picked theater actor Bert Convy for the role instead of Frid for the temporary role of the vampire in early 1967
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[@rickyrm123]

thank you for this, My wife and I had the pleasure of meeting him in 1989 he was really a nice gentleman

[@mabel8179]

+Ricky Marlow How lovely! He was a great actor too. :)

[@Janster59]

Love and miss this man...

[@sherryparkman7635]

A hell of a performance.😆

[@sherryparkman7635]

PERFECT Vampire !

[@mabel8179]

Mr Frid's ending monologue was excellent!

[@jeanaschman4009]

What a great actor. Missed very much. Those like him are few and far between. 🙏💖

[@TammyClair]

I absolutely love Jonathan Frid's work, real talent, such drama, today he could download mp3 of his recordings. He could work from home and avoid that fall on all that ice. I would love to hear him read more Edgar Allen Poe short stories.

[@janetlieb2507]

Yes! So sad!💔

[@michellelambert8729]

Oh no! I didn't know that he had a fall. I'm so sorry.

[@dianajanejubilee]

I enjoyed every single moment of JF's performances. Loved it!

[@Christheatheist1]

My sister Sherry and i were crazy about him.

[@karenhummel49]

My late sister loved Jonathan Frid!

[@lindajensen9562]

Johnathan Frid is the best! I was only four when I was introduced to Dark Shadows, but I still remember watching with only the most important person in my life, my mother.
7 years has passed since she has been gone, and now I am watching all over again.
What wonderful memories.

[@kimwalter6341]

I also watched as a 4 year old. Today, my spouse and I are watching the entire series on amazon prime since we were so young when it first aired.

[@those_eyes]

I started watching at age 5. How time flies...and now I'm watching this show again...
Love Jonathan Frid! What a great vampire! He was well cast!

[@donnaferrier101]

He was Brilliant in all he did. Love Jonathan, handsome, beautiful eyes. Rest In Peace Jonathan, we will never forget you.🙏🙏💙💜

[@melodiefrances3898]

His performance of the Tell Tell Heart is awesome. Wow!

[@rebeccadale2413]

I used to watch dark shadows I love that show so much

[@deborahtruthseeker112]

My mother loved him as Barnabus Collins. Dark Shadows was great!!!

[@petitelapin60]

Wow such great acting Loved Jonathan Frid ---the man and the actor. Such a class act! Thank you for sharing!

[@juliewitt7496]

A Poe tale that many actors adore to render. A short story written with great skill.

[@janetlieb2507]

Genius Poe! Sad life and sad death!❤

[@richer1959]

The legend lives on forever

[@billyshears988]

Brilliant and Talented actor we miss you 😢 Barnabus Missed but never forgotten

[@rocioaguilera3555]

Jonathan Frid, a great actor, had so much better looks when aging than whe was younger.
He was like the quality wines, better as they age.
That beautiful voice of him is unforgettable ❤

[@karendegraaf1146]

Such a talented actor!

[@66collinwood]

Great interview with Jonathan Frid!

[@thejupiter2574]

+paul sousa There was also a great interview with Johnny Depp someplace as well where he talked about being a fan of the show as well as Tim Burton and Michelle Pfeiffer and Alice Cooper all were fans of the show as well in their teen years. I saw that interview a few years ago ,it was awesome.

[@sherryparkman7635]

My fav actor !!

[@thejupiter2574]

Also both Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper said they were thrilled to have met Frid. Depp felt like an excited little kid , fanboy, meeting him. Frid told Depp and Burton that he hoped they were not going to make a gory violent vampire movie like Curtis' House of Dark Shadows was. Frid told Depp and Burton how much he hated House of Dark Shadows and what Curtis did to his character. He told Depp that if they were going to make that kind of movie then he would not want to appear in it.
Frid said he had no idea who Alice Cooper was when he met him. Alice was all in make up but he just smiled and acknowledged Alice as just another fan . :) :)
I love the story.

[@thejupiter2574]

@paul Suosa Hiiiii thank you so much for sending me the copy of your Johnny Depp autographed picture of him shirtless from when he was younger. Wow, sexy picture of him. Thanks, yes I had read and heard that DS actress Kathryn L Scott was good friends ever since they worked together on the TV show he was on '21 Jump Street'. They'd stayed friends ever since and he used to call Ms. Scott on the phone and ask her all kinds of questions about her having worked on Dark Shadows; how cool. :)

[@pattibrooks1907]

Loved Jonathan Frid ! Great actor !

[@fall4ever]

This is from New Jersey Network. I was there manning the phones. When we made eye contact he called out to me and said, "I saw Hamilton!" We had one thing in common. Jonathan was referring to seeing an exit sign on 195 West for Hamilton Square on his way to Ewing, NJ. He was from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and I was from Hamilton Square, NJ. He always said that we should create our own subset of the Dark Shadows Festival for people from "Hamilton!" Damn I miss him!

[@fall4ever]

I believe this was 1985.

[@daveyhouston]

i met him and all the cast at a festival in california 30 years ago he was very funny lara was very gracious her toddler was with her louis edmonds had a head cold but bravely came anyway what a trooper catherine was very sweet giong through the line sighning autograghps

[@howardyoungblood9133]

Dark shadows was the best show on 📺 tv check ✔

[@ThePsychedelicRealm]

Amazing! Thank you uploader, and thank you Jonathan Frid

[@barbarajohnson7782]

My very favorite on Dark Shadows!

[@3dbadboy1]

That's so true about suggestibility, at the end of the first episode of The Night Gallery premiere trilogy "The Cemetery", you hear the last moments of life for the butler. You are left with your imagination what unthinkable horrors were inflicted upon him.

[@pedinurse1]

you are the best vampire ever that we love and cheer for

[@sherryparkman7635]

The BEST VAMPIRE IN THE WORLD.

[@picassoboy52]

So very missed......

[@sherryparkman7635]

Progection

[@janetlieb2507]

Miss him!❤

[@dorothysue1]

I still love him!

[@deeasztalos2520]

He was amazing. I love and miss him so much

[@sherryparkman7635]

EXCELLENCE FOREVER .😍😍

[@sm31156]

I loved Jonathan. I remember getting off the bus running home after school to fet home to watch Dark Shadows with Mom. ❤

[@OceanPatriot777]

He would have made a great bad guy in a James Bond flick.Or even Dr.Who.

[@valerieaugustine8083]

He said in another video on youtube he enjoyed playing a bad guy it was more interesting.

[@10-4-goodbuddy]

I have a ginormous handsome portrait of Barnabas Collins on my wall in a beautiful fancy gold frame. Every time I look at it I feel like I'm in Collinwood inside the mansion

[@mabel8179]

The young man interviewing Mr Frid is very good.

[@11redlions]

+Matilda Woodhouse
Yes, he is.

[@mabel8179]

Marilyn Willett I especially like that he is genuinely interested in Jonathan's work and respects him- he's no goofball!

[@11redlions]

+Matilda Woodhouse
CORRECT
oh wow i want to kiss my darling

[@TammyClair]

+Marilyn Willett, You make me laugh. I love to read your comments on J. Frid.

[@11redlions]

Thanks so much Tammy, you made me smile, Right now I'm listening to his tapes, he plays his tape recorder in his apt, practicing his lines and telling stories, he just read the teenie tiny woman and the water ghost, but I'm not into his taste in music.

[@barneygartner7994]

Loved him as bananas collins with Lara parker as Angelique on dark shadows.

[@valerieaugustine8083]

Until I searched the internet about him I had no idea he was so well educated. Not many actors have a masters from Yale. I wish he had been in more movies and TV episodes. But, his love was the theater .....

[@thejupiter2574]

True I had also wished that he had appeared in more movies but after Dark Shadows he was badly type cast for roles as the monster and villain. He did not want be be a movie star nor play a monster anymore. He returned to the theater and performing in front of a live audience . That is what gave him the most pleasure according to the many posts I've read from facebook

[@rosesmith8478]

Born a old soul always was and always will be

[@lynnmitzy1643]

Torn between JF and VP♥️on this reading. ♥️them both

[@henriettedyer2410]

He played a great vampire. Such an interesting soap opera.

[@markjamesmeli2520]

Brilliant

[@pattibrooks1907]

Jonathan was such a good man his acting is none like no other ! He was a lady s man and had a very good heart !

[@thejupiter2574]

actually he was very happy in his private life on his own. He was not a lady's man That image was totally created to sell him to the soap magazines He did several publicity pictures portraying him as the swinging bachelor but he preferred time to himself and never married and did not want to be tied down He actually hated all the attention he got and never wanted it. The Teen magazines mad him into a 40yr old teen idol LOL arrgghh he hated it.

[@janetlieb2507]

He was gay as were several dark shadows,actors

[@Amphitera]

@@janetlieb2507 except that there is zero proof of that, and all the gaysayers are always quoting each other without having anything but their own wishful thinking to go on.
There were a few who were known to be homosexual, because they said so or openly lived with their partners. To go on and on trying to make it look like that applied to everyone (even to all the people who were happily married- after all, that just means they were in the closet by their logic) is pathetic and disrespectful, to say the least.

[@thejupiter2574]

@@Amphitera It is your Homophobia that is both 'pathetic' and 'disrespectful' Being thought of or said to be Gay is, NOT, an insult nor is it disrespectful. Most people are assumed to be Heterosexual but not all of them are. Being Gay is just another sexual orientation that one is born with. Nothing wrong with it.
In regards to Frid, just because 'you' did not get the memo about his being gay does not mean he was not. Frid did not officially come out to his 'straight' fans, but many, many gay fans knew it and they knew Jonathan and Louis and Joel and Chris and Keith and Graig .
Frid felt it was none of the fans business and he did not want to put up with the hatred and bigotry that Louis Edmonds had to go through with several soap opera fans. There are many levels of Coming Out and not every gay person comes out to everyone. There are many DS fans who knew and worked with Frid who knew he was gay in his personal life. Frid did not make an issue of it and only those he was close to, trusted and worked with, knew. The mention of Homosexuality among DS fans today still gets responses of hatred and arguments because fans like Marilyn W on youtube go on a hate filled religious tirade over it.

[@laurawilloughby4000]

@@Amphitera A man who has never married and never dated a woman and.is in his mid 40s is gay.

[@Firevest]

Wish I could have met him in person

[@gonzaloreyes8782]

I miss today series like gothic dark shadow

[@usandthem72]

Legend.

[@suzieq1554]

He was great!

[@JUSTMEYOUKNOWWHO]

I love it!

[@bobbysands6923]

MY God this guy was great.

[@diankreczmer6595]

I realize now, Jonathan., in his dramatic acting, reminds me of Richard burton who had similar
Shakesprsran acting

[@thejupiter2574]

I think one of the actors Frid liked in the theater was Sir Lawrence Olivier

[@allenjones3130]

Nice to see Frid doing something other than playing Barnabas Collins!

[@bryansikes6443]

He Was The One And Only Barnabas Collins👍

[@fucheduck]

Canadian who does a great formal new england 19th century accent.(sort of a transisional english/old american I guess). the first part of this vid is an early(and disregarded) attempt at an over done" limy" accent. but he did it more subtle in the series!

[@eleni1968]

In the DS bloopers there are examples of JF making word inversions that alluded to his previous life as a Shakespearian actor. I'm grateful that Dan Curtis and the writers of DS allowed JF a great deal of artistic control over the development of Barnabas. However the word inversions, according to Nancy Kersey were a combo of his dyslexia and the lack of time/prep the show gave actors to learn their lines, hence the teleprompter. Everyone. Dan Curtis and others [including JF] gave JF a hard time about having to learn his lines -- except that the worst offenders of line dropping --according to my colleagues who watched the show as a first-run and re-run--were Joan Bennet and Grayson Hall. Even her husband Sam Hall criticized his own wife for this and her over-acting. Go figure.

[@lylepetrov6505]

Joan Bennet added class to DS.

[@lylepetrov6505]

Grsysen Hall was a horrible actress. Her character did not fit into the story properly. The rest were very good.

[@thejupiter2574]

@@lylepetrov6505 That is just your opinion. She acted as she was directed to do. It was because of her acting that fans fell in love with the Barnabas / Julia story and both actors were kept on instead of the original plan of killing them both off.

[@Bossmanrocks]

He played so much with Laura Parker (Angelique, another incredible actor) I would love to know what he thought of her as a person and her skill, and what his working relationship with her was like. If anyone could direct me to an interview of that, I'd love to see it.

[@thejupiter2574]

@Bossmanrocks From interviews posted in the facebook groups, Frid loved and adored Lara Parker. He fave her personal advice on how to play her role in her audition for the part His advice to her helped her win the role. She was one of his favorite ladies from the show. They remained close friends until he died. They were just good friends who enjoyed each others company and humor. Lara was married with two kids and Mr. Frid did not date the ladies but he had a lot of lady friends. Lara was like his favorite from the show and then Marie Wallace too from what I have read.

[@Bossmanrocks]

@@thejupiter2574 Thank you for all that information. I thought they might have had a good working relationship, because they worked so well together, not to mention the strong chemistry between them. As far as Frid's personal life, from what I understand, he was gay. He had relationships with both Rod Taylor and Raymond Burr. Not that it matters what he was, but at that time you couldn't come out, so he had to keep that part of his life under wraps.

[@Firevest]

Awesome

[@sylviekell]

I'd like to attempt to answer the question about finding the bad side of Mary Poppins. She was conceited. She carried around a measuring tape that measured herself up to "Practically Perfect in Every Way."

[@howardyoungblood9133]

My name is Howard Youngblood and I love the good work that he did and now he is in heaven with Jesus working for God people in the family name of Jesus aman

[@thejupiter2574]

Your comment has 'nothing' to do with this post and subject. Take your religious dribble elsewhere.

[@diankreczmer6595]

I wonder if Jonathan frid was ever on Broadway?

[@thejupiter2574]

Yes , he was on Broadway when he was in the play
'Arsenic and Old Lace' and then he toured with the play as well, performing in in several cites too.

[@howardyoungblood9133]

Do you remember all star wrestling in 1960

[@thejupiter2574]

Get lost. Your comments are just taking up space and they have NOTHING to do with Frid

[@rocioaguilera3555]

Take your comment to the proper place

[@monicamckee5752]

What year was this interview?

[@diankreczmer6595]

What a loss, rip Jonathan frid

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[@howardyoungblood9133]

I remember being in the dark shadows I remember being in the Twilight zone. I remember not having a cell phone I remember being the bleam game in my family. I remember 📞 calling the police. I remember my dark shadows is missing from your house April m Boyd I pay 500 $$ $ dollars for April m Boyd

[@janetlieb2507]

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[@vanselmi6587]

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