Cast
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
175-year-old vampire released onto an unsuspecting Collinsport. He is evil, ruthless, and tolerates no betrayal.
John Karlen as Willie Loomis
a lecherous servant of the Collins family...until he opens the wrong coffin.
Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
the matriarch of Collinwood, she throws the best parties in Collinsport, and looks fantastic in Naomi's necklace.
Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins
David's father, he sets out to protect his family, and ends up as one of the living dead.
Nancy Barrett as Carolyn Stoddard
Elizabeth's daughter who finds herself entranced by the new cousin from England, but even in death she is as willful as ever.
David Henesy as David Collins
a precocious youth with a penchant for locking governesses in abandoned rooms.
Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman
on sabatical to write a Collins family history, she tries to cure the vampire, and ends up falling in love with him.
Roger Davis as Jeff Clark
he tries to protect Maggie from the vampire, but he couldn't do it without Willie's help.
Kathryn
Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans
the governess at Collinwood, she has the misfortune to look like Josette DuPres, the lost love of the vampire.
Don Briscoe as Todd Blake
Carolyn's boyfriend, he scoffs at the idea of vampires, until he meets Carolyn after her funeral...
Thayer David as Prof. T. Eliot Stokes
the first one to realize that the dead are walking in Collinsport. Too bad he was soon to be one of them...
Dennis Patrick as Sheriff George Patterson
charged with protecting the town and its citizens. Though he helps rid the town of one vampire, he seems powerless against the other.
Barbara Cason as Mrs. Johnson
Collinwood's housekeeper, her chief duty seems to be finding dead bodies.
Lisa Richards as Daphne Budd
Liz's secretary and Barnabas' first victim.
Terry Crawford as Todd's nurse
after he is attacked by Carolyn.
Humbert Allen Astrado as Dr. Forbes
he is mystified by the attack on Daphne.
Ed Riley as Deputy Seth
he relates the second attack to a bartender at the Blue Whale.
Paul Michael as the Old Man
who brings Jeff a strange message from Roger and Stokes.
Michael
Stroka as Pallbearer
at Carolyn's funeral.
Jerry Lacy as the Minister
he presides over Carolyn Stoddard's funeral.
Characters mentioned, but not seen
Naomi Collins, Barnabas' mother, her jewels were presumed lost during the Revolutionary War until Barnabas presents them to Liz.
Josette DuPres, she threw herself off Widow's Hill rather than become Barnabas' vampire bride.
Nancy Hodiack, the second vampire victim. Slated to be played by Marie Wallace until she left the series.
Staff
Producer: Dan Curtis
Writers: Gordon Russell, Sam Hall
Director: Dan Curtis
Portrait Gallery for House of Dark Shadows
