# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-frid
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:34:40.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-frid"
name: "Jonathan Frid"
slug: "jonathan-frid"
description: "John Herbert Frid, known as Jonathan Frid, was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire caused the floundering daytime drama to soar to 20 million daily viewers. His watershed portrayal has been cited as a key influence on contemporary genre film and television series such as Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries."
tagline: "Canadian actor and theatre director (1924–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JonathanFrid2001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1924-12-02"
deathDate: "2012-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.87741066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294847/"
    handle:    "nm0294847"
sources:
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    title: "جوناثان فريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
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    title: "جاناتان فرید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاناتان فرید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョナサン・フリッド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "조너선 프리드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Frid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1337143"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105061"
    title: "Jonathan Frid"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump