Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 29, 1937
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Credits
83 titles
Barbara Steele
Biography
Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is an English actress and producer, known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. She has been referred to as the "Queen of All Scream Queens" and "Britain's first lady of horror". She played the dual role of Asa and Katia Vajda in Mario Bava's landmark film Black Sunday (1960), and starred in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Long Hair of Death (1964), and Castle of Blood (1964). Additionally, Steele had supporting roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975), Joe Dante's Piranha and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (both 1978), and appeared on television in the 1991 TV series Dark Shadows. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for producing the American television miniseries War and Remembrance (1988–89). Steele appeared in several films in the 2010s, including a lead role in The Butterfly Room (2012) and supporting role in Ryan Gosling's Lost River (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
(Voice)
Ulalume - A Ballad
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Fellinopolis
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Self
Master of Dark Shadows
Self
Castlevania
Miranda (voice)
Minutes Past Midnight
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Phantom
The Widow
Lost River
Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
The Apparition of the Mill
The Shutterbug Man
Narrator
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Swinging Blade
Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
The Butterfly Room
Ann
A History of Horror
Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
Barbara Steele in Conversation
Self
The Boneyard Collection
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Mario Bava Speaks
Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
Italian Kings Of B
Self
The American Nightmare
Self
The Capitol Conspiracy
Agent Oakley
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Self
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
Barbara
Deep Above
Mrs. Wagner
Dracula in the Movies
(archive footage)
Fear in the Dark
Self
Dark Shadows
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
Elsa MacMahon
The Winds of War
Mrs. Stoller
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Self
Silent Scream
Victoria Engels
The Key Is in the Door
Cathy
Piranha
Dr. Mengers
Pretty Baby
Josephine
The Space-Watch Murders
Shivers
Betts
Caged Heat
Supt. McQueen
Night Gallery
The Widow Craighill
Ciao, Federico!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Danielle
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Carla
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Lavinia Morley
Barbara and Her Furs
Self
The She Beast
Veronica
Young Törless
Bozena
An Angel for Satan
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda