Name
Barbara Steele
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1937-12-29 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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
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- 1963 8½ as Gloria Morin
- 1997 Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self
- 1978 Piranha as Dr. Mengers
- 1959 The 39 Steps as Extra
- 1978 Pretty Baby as Josephine
- 1960 Black Sunday as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
- 1975 Shivers as Betts
- 1968 Curse of the Crimson Altar as Lavinia Morley
- 1979 Silent Scream as Victoria Engels
- 1998 The Capitol Conspiracy as Agent Oakley
- 1964 Castle of Blood as Elisabeth Blackwood
- 1963 The Ghost as Margaret Hichcock
- 1962 The Horrible Dr. Hichcock as Cynthia Hichcock
- 1965 Terror-Creatures from the Grave as Cleo Hauff
- 1959 Sapphire as Student
- 1966 Young Törless as Bozena
- 1974 Caged Heat as Supt. McQueen
- 1978 The Key Is in the Door as Cathy
- 1964 The Monocle's Sour Laugh as Valérie Gasparelli
- 1964 The Long Hair of Death as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
- 2000 The American Nightmare as Self
- 2012 The Butterfly Room as Ann
- 1966 The She Beast as Veronica
- 1958 Houseboat as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 2014 Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
- 1958 Bachelor of Hearts as Fiona
- 1959 Upstairs and Downstairs as Mary
- 1963 A Sentimental Attempt as Silvia
- 1969 Honeymoon with a Stranger as Carla
- 1963 The Hours of Love as Leila
- 2014 Behind the Swinging Blade as Self
- 2021 Fellinopolis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 1959 The Heart of a Man as Girl
- Soon Mary Woronov: Cult Queen as Self
- 1981 Be Pretty and Shut Up! as Self
- 1964 White Voices as Guilia
- 1964 Easy Love as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
- 2014 The Shutterbug Man as Narrator
- 2015 The Mill at Calder's End as The Apparition of the Mill
- 2015 Lost River as Belladonna
- 1960 Your Money or Your Wife as Juliet Frost
- 1964 Les baisers as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
- 1978 The Space-Watch Murders
- 2023 Ulalume - A Ballad as Narrator: opening credits (voice)
- 1970 Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! as Danielle
- 2016 Minutes Past Midnight as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
- 1991 Fear in the Dark as Self
- 1994 Deep Above as Mrs. Wagner
- 1962 The Iron Captain as Floriana
- 1965 Money
- 1965 Once Upon a Tractor as Lady Clerk
- 1967 Barbara and Her Furs as Self
- 1964 Three for a Robbery as Barbara Sims
- 2014 Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' as Self
- 1961 The Pit and the Pendulum as Elizabeth Barnard Medina
- 1966 For Love and Gold as Teodora
- 2019 Master of Dark Shadows as Self
- 2009 Barbara Steele in Conversation as Self
- 2013 House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! as Self
- 1965 Nightmare Castle as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
- 1966 An Angel for Satan as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
- 2008 The Boneyard Collection as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
- 1964 The Maniacs as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
- 1970 Ciao, Federico! as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 2016 The Phantom as The Widow
- 2003 Italian Kings Of B as Self
- 2004 Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
- 2019 Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta as Self
- 2006 Mario Bava Speaks as Self
- 2025 Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol as (Voice)
- 1959 Look at Life: Saving Face as Self
- 1996 Vampire Cult Queens from Hell as Barbara
- 1992 Dracula in the Movies as (archive footage)
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Phyllis
- 2017 Castlevania ( 3 episodes ) as Miranda (voice)
- 1959 Adventures in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as Dolores
- 1991 Dark Shadows ( 5 episodes ) as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
- 1970 Night Gallery ( 1 episode ) as The Widow Craighill
- 2010 A History of Horror ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2009 Celebrity Ghost Stories ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1965 Dim Dam Dom ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1991 Dark Shadows ( 6 episodes ) as Dr. Julia Hoffman
- 1991 Dark Shadows ( 1 episode ) as Countess Natalie du Pres
- 1983 The Winds of War ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Stoller
- 1988 War and Remembrance ( 1 episode ) as Elsa MacMahon
