Celebrity Deaths in 2012

Jonathan Frid

The Dark Shadows star died April 13 at 87 of natural causes. Frid joined the gothic soap opera, which ran from 1966 to 1971, in 1967, playing Barnabas Collins, a vampire returning to his family's estate, and quickly became the star of the show. He filmed a cameo in Tim Burton's big-screen remake of Dark Shadows, in which Johnny Depp plays Barnabas. Frid's other credits include the TV movie The Devil's Daughter and the horror film Seizure.