Playing an angst-ridden, eventually sympathetic, member of the undead created an instant connection with the audience. Ratings started to rise and Barnabas, who was supposed to stick around for only ...

Throughout the years, the entertainment industry has been filled with film and TV shows about angsty, sexy vampires, ranging from Interview with the Vampire's Lestat to The Twilight Saga's Edward ...

It was 1967, and Sharon Smyth Lentz was a 9-year-old actress walking around Philadelphia, minding her own business. Then suddenly, it started happening. "I would be stopped on the street," Lentz ...

For a generation of viewers in the late 1960s, Dark Shadows was a daily ritual of chills, romance, and gothic glamour accompanied by the common proclamation, "I used to run home from school to watch ...

Well aware that Batman and Bilbo will soon join Harry Potter in the warehouse, Warner Bros. is on the lookout for potential new franchise material — including this weekend’s decidedly oddball entry ...

TORONTO -- Jonathan Frid, a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows", has died. He was 87. Frid died Friday of natural causes in a ...

Actor Jonathan Frid, who played imposing and elegant vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows," has died at 87. Frid passed away on April 14 from natural causes in his native ...