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Barnabas Collins
Jonathan Frid Barnabas Collins Dark Shadows 1968.JPG

Jonathan Frid every bit Barnabas Collins.
Dark Shadows character
Portrayed by Jonathan Frid
(1967–1971, 2010)
Ben Cross
(1991)
Alec Newman
(2004)
Johnny Depp
(2012)
First advent April 18, 1967
Last appearance May 11, 2012
Profile
Species Vampire

Barnabas Collins is a fictional grapheme, a featured office in the ABC daytime serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971. Barnabas is a 175-year-sometime vampire in search of fresh blood and his lost love, Josette. The character, originally played by Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, was introduced in an endeavor to resurrect the show's flagging ratings, and was originally to have but a cursory xiii-week run. He was retained due to his popularity and the plan's quick spike in ratings, and virtually became the star of the show.

A defining feature of Barnabas' character evolution is his gradual but persistent transformation from a sinister, frightening creature of the nighttime into the show's protagonist, who selflessly, heroically and repeatedly risks his life to save the Collins family from catastrophe.

In the 1991 NBC revival version of Dark Shadows, British actor Ben Cross played the part of Barnabas Collins. Alec Newman played the part in the unreleased 2004 pilot moving picture. In the recent series of sound dramas produced by Large Cease Productions, he is portrayed by Andrew Collins, while Frid returned to portray the part a final time in The Night Whispers. The role is played by Johnny Depp in director Tim Burton's 2012 flick, Nighttime Shadows.

Barnabas Collins was the main character in virtually of the 32 "Nighttime Shadows" paperback novels written by Marilyn Ross (Canadian author West.East.D. Ross) from the belatedly 1960s to the early on '70s. (Ross wrote hundreds of novels in several genres and nether diverse pseudonyms.)

TV Guide named Barnabas Collins #8 in its 2013 list of The lx Nastiest Villains of All Fourth dimension.[i]

Origin [edit]

Barnabas Collins was born in 1770, equally the son of Joshua Collins (Louis Edmonds) and Naomi Collins (Joan Bennett), in Collinsport, Maine. Barnabas adult shut ties with his uncle Jeremiah Collins. During the flashback, Barnabas intend to marry an heiress from Martinique named Josette du Pres (Kathryn Leigh Scott), just had a brief matter with Angelique Bouchard (Lara Parker), Josette's maidservant.

Upon Angelique'south arrival in Collinsport for the wedding in 1795, Barnabas was determined not to resume his matter. The spurned Angelique Bouchard, a practitioner of witchcraft, used a number of spells to manipulate Barnabas and his family unit and force his understanding to marry her. Barnabas discovered Angelique's duplicity, and shot her. With what she believed to be her dying words, she took revenge on Barnabas by summoning a vampire bat from hell to attack him. Barnabas cruel extremely ill and died. Angelique survived and attempted to rescind the curse, just was unsuccessful.

Barnabas shortly thereafter rose as a vampire, and shortly strangled Angelique. Collins later frightened his aunt Abigail (Clarice Blackburn) to expiry, and left the hatefully fanatic witch-hunter Reverend Trask (Jerry Lacy) entombed alive in the Old House basement. Sarah Collins died of pneumonia subsequently a cold night spent hiding in the forest from her deceased brother. Adding to Barnabas' grief, his mother Naomi committed suicide after discovering his secret. Barnabas Collins blamed Angelique for the deaths of both his sister and his mother, and also blamed Lt. Nathan Forbes (Joel Crothers), who had told Naomi most him. Barnabas strangled Forbes, and attempted to transform Josette into a vampire. Josette was willing, if non fully cognizant of what this would entail, until Angelique revealed a vision of what she would go. Fleeing from Barnabas, Josette leapt off the cliffs of Widow'due south Hill to her death.

Unable to deport what he had become, Barnabas Collins asked his male parent, Joshua, to destroy him. Joshua Collins was unable to slay his son, and ordered servant Ben Stokes (Thayer David) to nail a cross to the inside lid of Barnabas' coffin and to wrap chains on its outside, forever imprisoning the vampire in a secret room of the family mausoleum at Eagle'due south Hill Cemetery.

The return of Barnabas Collins [edit]

In 1967, while searching the Collins family crypt for their rumored lost jewels, Willie Loomis (John Karlen) stumbled upon the chained coffin in which Barnabas slept. Believing the bury to incorporate the Collins family riches, Willie inadvertently released the vampire. Barnabas attacked Willie and turned him into his unwilling retainer.

Barnabas Collins introduced himself to the modern Collins family as a cousin from England, a hard-working businessman never seen during the day. The family accepted this story, despite having never before heard of him, because of his resemblance to the portrait of the bequeathed Barnabas which hung in Collinwood. The thirsty Barnabas fabricated victims of several Collinsport residents. He was particularly taken with waitress Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott), who resembled his long-lost love, Josette. Barnabas was told past David Collins (David Henesy) that Josette's spirit notwithstanding haunted the Collinwood estate, where it periodically helped and protected others, including young David. Barnabas Collins kidnapped Maggie, hypnotized her to believe that she was Josette, and planned to make her his vampire bride. Maggie escaped with help from the ghost of Sarah Collins, but the emotional distress of being kidnapped acquired Maggie to regress to a childlike mentality and to forget all that had happened. Barnabas Collins then targeted David'due south governess, Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke) as a potential consort. He tried to seduce her away from her fiancé Shush Devlin (Anthony George), then to bite her. The ghost of Sarah appeared repeatedly throughout and warned Barnabas, who was tormented by a feeling of responsibility for her death, away from evil deeds.

Maggie was sent to Wyndcliff Sanitarium, where Dr. Julia Hoffman (Grayson Hall) tried to get her to remember what happened and to place her kidnapper. Dr. Hoffman constitute that the reply lay somewhere at Collinwood, and discovered who and what Barnabas was. Julia cruel in dear with Barnabas and attempted to cure him, and hypnotized Maggie to forget everything Barnabas had tried to do to her. Barnabas Collins initially distrusted Julia, and when her medical cure failed, viewed her as a gamble who would be able to expose his true nature. He attempted to kill Julia, or to drive her mad so that no 1 would believe her accusations. Ultimately, Barnabas came to see Julia as a useful marry. The romantic relationship Julia desired never happened on-screen, but she became Barnabas' chief confidante and helped him many times, while Barnabas Collins became genuinely devoted to Julia and would get to boggling lengths to protect or rescue her when she ran afoul of enemies such every bit Angelique (eventually a firm friend), ghosts, and the ancient Leviathans.

Barnabas'southward women [edit]

Barnabas Collins's not bad love was his fiancée from 1795, Josette du Pres, but throughout the testify he had involvement in many dissimilar women, including Maggie Evans, Victoria Winters and Roxanne Drew. He wanted these women to share his vampire existence, and wanted Maggie and Victoria to assume the identity of Josette. His closest marry and friend was Dr. Julia Hoffman, who was quietly in honey with him and supported his attempts to discover happiness. While enlightened that Julia did have strong feelings for him, Barnabas' complex feelings for Julia evolved from initial fearfulness and distrust to deep affection, devotion and protection. At one point, Barnabas Collins admitted to Willie Loomis that he cared for Julia more than he appeared to.

Other appearances [edit]

The 1970 MGM picture show House of Dark Shadows centers on the release of Barnabas Collins from his bury by Willie Loomis. Dissimilar Frid's television portrayal of Barnabas, the Barnabas featured in the film was truer to a typical evil vampire, who past the end of the film had killed half of the Collins family. Barnabas himself is killed by Jeff Clark, now depicted as Maggie's boyfriend, and a dying Willie Loomis, when Barnabas tries to brand Maggie Evans his vampire bride. Barnabas does non announced in the sequel, Night of Dark Shadows, which focuses on another relation, Quentin Collins.

In the 2012 pic Night Shadows, Barnabas is played by Johnny Depp as a somewhat-modernized version of the character from the original series. He has a deep obsession with Josette, has no forgiveness for those who betray him, and believes that his curse tin can be reversed. He shows deep emotions for his modern family unit members, whose lives he longs to be role of. He displays his television counterpart's powers and abilities, while subject to his common cold vampire instincts. Barnabas tries to win the love of David'southward governess Maggie Evans, now chosen Victoria Winters, who reminds him of his lost beloved Josette. Depp'due south version is upwards to date with pop civilisation and has a strong taste for rock music. He wears a hair and clothing style similar to his late 1960s counterpart, but dresses more colorfully. His grapheme is portrayed as somewhat more than sexually active and eccentric than before. This incarnation has a different relationship with Dr. Hoffman, who never becomes his ally.

Personality [edit]

Barnabas often blamed his moments of cruelty on his transformation into one of the undead or "nosferatu," but other characters revealed that Barnabas was non always the reluctant victim that he claimed. He carried on a sexual dalliance with the obsessed Angelique despite his claim of love for Josette, which prepare in motion many tragedies in his life. Jealousy and wounded male pride acquired him to fatally wound his uncle in a duel, later Jeremiah's elopement with Josette. He attempted to back out of his understanding to marry Angelique after she cured his sister of illness. Given proof that his newlywed bride Angelique was a witch, he attempted to murder her. A drunken Ben Stokes admitted that Barnabas, prior to his alter, "... weren't no practiced and then, neither — but at present, he's worse!" When the vampire tried to silence his own male parent by killing him, an astonished Joshua Collins exclaimed: "You would kill even me! You lot must have always had then much hatred in you. No 1 could be filled with it so chop-chop!" While many of his flip-flopping infatuations with nubile immature women could be attributed to his vampire curse and his demand to find a vampire helpmate, his romantic choices during his periods as a human were every bit immature and baffling. In afterward interviews, Jonathan Frid admitted this was all function of the character's success, "... the lies he told to himself."

Still harsh or impulsive he may accept been, Barnabas is withal not without a conscience, either as a human or equally a vampire. He is shown to be capable of feeling guilt for wrongs committed, too as love for other people. For example, he shows a softer side for Dr. Julia Hoffman equally he becomes closer to her, and once mentioned that he cared for her more he let on. He risked his life whenever she was in grave trouble, and only when the Leviathans gave the society to have Julia killed did Barnabas accept the strength to suspension free of their control. When Angelique tried to endanger Julia's life, an enraged Barnabas warned her that if she e'er tried to damage Julia once more, he would personally see to her ain destruction. His confrontation with Angelique over the deaths that his expletive had caused revealed that he did care deeply for his female parent, his sister and for Josette.

Powers [edit]

Barnabas' abilities mimic those of the classic vampire Dracula, and include immortality, superhuman forcefulness, superhuman speed, hypnotism, and the abilities to transform into a bat and to disappear and reappear at will. However, Barnabas has also been known to utilize sorcery. In an early storyline, he attempted to drive Julia mad past conjuring the spirit of her dead colleague, Dave Woodard. In 1795, Barnabas briefly resurrected Josette DuPres, who in the 20th century would warn the Collins family of approaching danger while wandering the Collinwood halls, and he used visions to lure Rev. Trask into a fatal trap. These seemingly magical abilities were never explained, but fabricated Barnabas a deadly protagonist.

Notes [edit]

Jonathan Frid first appeared as Barnabas Collins in 1967 in episode #211, but Collins' hand was briefly seen in the climax to episode #210, prior to Frid'south introduction. Series regular Timothy Gordon (uncredited) provided the hand, which was offset seen choking Willie Loomis.

In a 1971 Television receiver Guide commodity, Dark Shadows head-writer Sam Hall discussed the outline the show's finale would have taken had it not been canceled sooner than anticipated. Amidst other things, the plans involved Barnabas, a vampire once again, becoming mysteriously ill. Julia, deducing that his illness was due to his unique connection to Adam, would travel to Singapore to treat Adam, and there autumn seriously ill herself. The now-recovered Barnabas would come up to her and, at long concluding, declare his love and ask her to become his wife. Knowing that Angelique would never allow Julia to alive, they would remain in the Far E after their wedlock, and Julia would permanently cure Barnabas of his vampirism.

Relationships [edit]

  • Josette du Pres; fiancee
  • Angelique Bouchard Collins; rival, subsequently wife
  • Victoria Winters; romantic interest
  • Maggie Evans; romantic interest
  • Sarah Collins; younger sis
  • Roxanne Drew; romantic interest
  • Dr. Julia Hoffman; confidante
  • Quentin Collins; distant cousin
  • Willie Loomis; human slave and daytime protector

References [edit]

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