Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele (born December 29, 1937, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England) is an English film actress. She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), now hailed as a classic. Steele starred in a string of horror films, including The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Ghost, directed by Riccardo Freda and Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Pit and the Pendulum. She guested on various British television shows including the spy drama Danger Man starring Patrick McGoohan. In 2010, she was a guest star in the Dark Shadows audio drama The Night Whispers. In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday (1960) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK, 1937-12-29

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	Houseboat	Minor Role (uncredited)	64
2	1958	Bachelor of Hearts	Fiona	56
3	1959	The 39 Steps	Extra	62
4	1959	The Heart of a Man	Girl	0
5	1959	Sapphire	Student	70
6	1959	Upstairs and Downstairs	Mary	56
7	1960	Black Sunday	Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda	74
8	1962	The Horrible Dr. Hichcock	Cynthia Hichcock	59
9	1963	8½	Gloria Morin	81
10	1963	The Hours of Love	Leila	50
11	1963	The Ghost	Margaret Hichcock	60
12	1963	A Sentimental Attempt	Silvia	65
13	1964	Castle of Blood	Elisabeth Blackwood	71
14	1964	The Monocle's Sour Laugh	Valérie Gasparelli	53
15	1964	The Long Hair of Death	Helen Rochefort / Mary	64
16	1965	Terror-Creatures from the Grave	Cleo Hauff	59
17	1966	Revenge of The Blood Beast	Veronica	49
18	1966	Young Törless	Bozena	67
19	1968	Curse of the Crimson Altar	Lavinia Morley	53
20	1969	Honeymoon with a Stranger	Carla	65
21	1974	Caged Heat	Supt. McQueen	49
22	1975	Shivers	Betts	64
23	1978	Pretty Baby	Josephine	70
24	1978	Piranha	Dr. Mengers	59
25	1978	The Key Is in the Door	Cathy	47
26	1979	Silent Scream	Victoria Engels	57
27	1981	Be Pretty and Shut Up!	Self	63
28	1997	Hollywood Rated 'R'	Self	51
29	1998	The Capitol Conspiracy	Agent Oakley	46
30	2000	The American Nightmare	Self	70
31	2012	The Butterfly Room	Ann	58
32	2014	Behind the Swinging Blade	Self	0
33	2014	Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau	Self (archive footage)	67
34	2021	Fellinopolis	Self - Actress (archive footage)	65
35		Mary Woronov: Cult Queen		0
36	1960	Your Money or Your Wife	Juliet Frost	40
37	1961	The Pit and the Pendulum	Elizabeth Barnard Medina	68
38	1962	The Iron Captain	Floriana	0
39	1964	The Maniacs	Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")	50
40	1964	Les baisers	Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')	0
41	1964	Three for a Robbery	Barbara Sims	0
42	1964	White Voices	Guilia	50
43	1964	Easy Love	Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")	20
44	1965	Nightmare Castle	Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith	54
45	1965	Once Upon a Tractor	Lady Clerk	50
46	1965	Money		0
47	1966	For Love and Gold	Teodora	77
48	1966	An Angel for Satan	Harriet Montebruno / Belinda	63
49	1967	Barbara and Her Furs	Self	0
50	1970	Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!	Danielle	55
51	1970	Ciao, Federico!	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	68
52	1978	The Space-Watch Murders		0
53	1991	Fear in the Dark	Self	100
54	1994	Deep Above	Mrs. Wagner	0
55	2003	Italian Kings Of B	Self	60
56	2004	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self	60
57	2006	Mario Bava Speaks	Self	0
58	2008	The Boneyard Collection	Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")	53
59	2009	Barbara Steele in Conversation	Self	0
60	2013	House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!	Self	0
61	2014	Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'	Self	55
62	2014	The Shutterbug Man	Narrator	63
63	2015	The Mill at Calder's End	The Apparition of the Mill	65
64	2015	Lost River	Belladonna	57
65	2016	The Phantom	The Widow	63
66	2016	Minutes Past Midnight	The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')	49
67	2019	Master of Dark Shadows	Self	91
68	2019	Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta	Sé stessa	85
69	2023	Ulalume - A Ballad	Narrator: opening credits (voice)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Phyllis	77
2	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Dolores	57
3	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Self	60
4	1970	Night Gallery	The Widow Craighill	78
5	1988	War and Remembrance	Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)	79
6	1991	Dark Shadows	Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres	77
7	2009	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Self	73
8	2010	A History of Horror	Self	75
9	2017	Castlevania	Miranda (voice)	83

Barbara Steele

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