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.
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- Born:
- Dec 29, 1937 In Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 76
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
- Latest Project:
- Movie Ulalume - A Ballad 2023-01-20
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Mary Woronov: Cult Queen | 2025 | |
| Movie | Ulalume - A Ballad | Narrator: opening credits (voice) | 2023-01-20 |
| Movie | Fellinopolis | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2021-06-10 |
| Movie | Master of Dark Shadows | Self | 2019-04-16 |
| Series | Castlevania | Miranda (voice) | 2017-07-07 |
| Movie | Minutes Past Midnight | The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End') | 2016-10-18 |
| Movie | The Phantom | The Widow | 2016-10-14 |
| Movie | The Mill at Calder's End | The Apparition of the Mill | 2015-03-22 |
| Movie | Lost River | Belladonna | 2015-04-08 |
| Movie | Behind the Swinging Blade | Self | 2014-05-19 |
| Movie | The Shutterbug Man | Narrator | 2014-12-17 |
| Movie | Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' | Self | 2014-10-13 |
| Movie | Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau” | Self (archive footage) | 2014-08-24 |
| Movie | House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! | Self | 2013-10-01 |
| Movie | The Butterfly Room | Ann | 2012-08-04 |
| Series | A History of Horror | Self | 2010-10-11 |
| Series | Celebrity Ghost Stories | Self | 2009-10-03 |
| Movie | Barbara Steele in Conversation | Self | 2009-05-19 |
| Movie | The Boneyard Collection | Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires") | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Italian Kings Of B | Self | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | The American Nightmare | Self | 2000-09-11 |
| Movie | The Capitol Conspiracy | Agent Oakley | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Hollywood Rated 'R' | Self | 1997-06-19 |
| Movie | Deep Above | Mrs. Wagner | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Fear in the Dark | Self | 1991-10-29 |
| Series | Dark Shadows | Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres | 1991-01-13 |
| Series | War and Remembrance | Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party) | 1988-11-13 |
| Movie | Be Pretty and Shut Up! | Self | 1981-03-04 |
| Movie | Silent Scream | Victoria Engels | 1979-11-23 |
| Movie | Piranha | Dr. Mengers | 1978-08-03 |
| Movie | The Space-Watch Murders | 1978-01-04 | |
| Movie | Pretty Baby | Josephine | 1978-04-05 |
| Movie | The Key Is in the Door | Cathy | 1978-12-13 |
| Movie | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Idat | 1977-07-14 |
| Movie | Shivers | Betts | 1975-09-26 |
| Movie | Caged Heat | Supt. McQueen | 1974-04-19 |
| Movie | Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! | Danielle | 1970-10-08 |
| Series | Night Gallery | The Widow Craighill | 1970-12-16 |
| Movie | Ciao, Federico! | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1970-10-28 |
| Movie | Honeymoon with a Stranger | Carla | 1969-12-23 |
| Movie | Curse of the Crimson Altar | Lavinia Morley | 1968-12-01 |
| Movie | Barbara and Her Furs | Self | 1967-01-01 |
| Movie | For Love and Gold | Teodora | 1966-04-07 |
| Movie | An Angel for Satan | Harriet Montebruno / Belinda | 1966-05-04 |
| Movie | Young Törless | Bozena | 1966-05-20 |
| Movie | The She Beast | Veronica | 1966-05-02 |
| Series | Dim Dam Dom | Self | 1965-03-07 |
| Movie | Terror-Creatures from the Grave | Cleo Hauff | 1965-06-23 |
| Movie | Money | Unknown | 1965-11-25 |
| Movie | Nightmare Castle | Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith | 1965-08-20 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Tractor | Lady Clerk | 1965-09-09 |
| Movie | Les baisers | Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir') | 1964-05-14 |
| Movie | Castle of Blood | Elisabeth Blackwood | 1964-02-27 |
| Movie | Three for a Robbery | Barbara Sims | 1964-08-01 |
| Movie | The Maniacs | Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale") | 1964-03-28 |
| Movie | White Voices | Guilia | 1964-08-12 |
| Movie | The Long Hair of Death | Helen Rochefort / Mary | 1964-12-30 |
| Movie | Easy Love | Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano") | 1964-10-03 |
| Movie | The Monocle's Sour Laugh | Valérie Gasparelli | 1964-09-16 |
| Movie | 8½ | Gloria Morin | 1963-02-14 |
| Movie | The Hours of Love | Leila | 1963-03-01 |
| Movie | A Sentimental Attempt | Silvia | 1963-10-04 |
| Movie | The Ghost | Margaret Hichcock | 1963-03-30 |
| Movie | The Horrible Dr. Hichcock | Cynthia Hichcock | 1962-08-01 |
| Movie | The Iron Captain | Floriana | 1962-10-26 |
| Movie | The Pit and the Pendulum | Elizabeth Barnard Medina | 1961-08-12 |
| Movie | Black Sunday | Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda | 1960-08-11 |
| Movie | Your Money or Your Wife | Juliet Frost | 1960-03-01 |
| Movie | Sapphire | Student | 1959-11-02 |
| Movie | The Heart of a Man | Girl | 1959-08-06 |
| Movie | The 39 Steps | Extra | 1959-03-13 |
| Movie | Upstairs and Downstairs | Mary | 1959-11-02 |
| Series | Adventures in Paradise | Dolores | 1959-10-05 |
| Movie | Houseboat | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1958-11-19 |
| Movie | Bachelor of Hearts | Fiona | 1958-12-12 |
| Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Phyllis | 1955-10-02 |