Question--has anyone informed Jonathan?Â
Yep, the very day in fact.
You'd think he'd mention it on his website the same way KLS did on hers. I mean, DC *did* change the course of his career and everything.Â
You are assuming that nothing was said or done privately. I don't think the lack of acknowledgment of an event on a website indicates anything. Afterall, David Selby attended the Curtis funeral but makes no mention of the passing on his website. I don't think other actors have made any mention of it on their sites.
Also, Curtis didn't cast Frid as Barnabas. It was Sproat and Costello who put Frid in the role and wrote Barnabas as a totally different character than what Curtis had in mind. Curtis was in Europe at the time and had little to do with all that.Â
At any rate, Frid's goal - as he stated in a 1961 interview while in summerstock in New York - was to get all the acting experience he could in order to teach acting at a college. He also said in that same interview he had no interest in being a "star" or a celebrity of any kind. This explains why he basically left the business soon after DS was cancelled.  It also explains why he didn't want to be in succeeding DS movies or take over the title of a horror star in the movies which he could have easily done. He didn't want to.Â
Curtis was an ambitious and imaginative producer and director, no question, but Barnabas was cast and created by those left in charge during Curtis' long absence in Europe. The Barnabas Curtis wanted was the one you saw in HODS.
Nancy