Barnabas Collins

Dark Shadows revival (1991, NBC), Nightmare Café (1992, NBC), American Gothic (1995-96, CBS): The prime-time reboot of cult melodrama Dark Shadows revived conflicted Barnabas Collins (whose comrades included a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as a more feral lovelorn vampire.

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McDonell also stars as the young Barnabas Collins the older version will be played Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's film adaptation of Dark Shadows.

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The latest Hollywood buzz is that Johnny Depp signed on to play Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton's remake of the Sixties soap Dark Shadows, but he is just one of many Hollywood heavyweights who has slipped into fang character.

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And Stephen Moyer, as Sookie's kidnapped Bill, is as magnetic and mysterious as ever a far, far cry from Barnabas Collins.

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Just imagine what sort of exciting new accent Depp will invent to play lead vamp Barnabas Collins!

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The latest Hollywood buzz is that Johnny Depp signed on to play Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton's remake of the Sixties soap Dark Shadows, but he is just one of many Hollywood heavyweights who has slipped into fang character.

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Depp will play the 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, who is in search of fresh blood and his lost love.

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Johnny Depp and his company came on board to produce the film in 2007 Depp has called main character Barnabas Collins one of his childhood obsessions and in 2008 Tim Burton was named as director, with John August scripting.

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I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins posters when I was five or six.

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Black and white television was dramatic to watch, with the porcelain skin, shiny hair and led colored lips exemplified in many classics, like Dark Shadows lead character Barnabas Collins.

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