Vampire Barnabas Collins and Jonathan Frid

Jonathan Frid: It was 1969, and Elena Nacanther was a teenager living in Brooklyn. She saw Dark Shadows on TV and became enamoured with Jonathan Frid, the Hamilton-born actor who played vampire Barnabas Collins. , according to CBC. Frid hired her to help answer some of the 6,000 fan letters he received per week. And they became lifelong friends. It was a fan encounter most 16-year-old girls could only dream of. She went down to the studio on West 53rd St. in Manhattan for an autograph. The second time she went, she took a scrapbook of Frid and Dark Shadows -related material. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.