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Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele

ActingBorn December 29, 1937 (age 88)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.

Filmography

2023
Ulalume - A Ballad

as Narrator: opening credits (voice)

Movie
2021
Fellinopolis

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Movie
2019Movie
2017
Castlevania

as Miranda (voice)

TV
2016
Minutes Past Midnight

as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')

Movie
2016
The Phantom

as The Widow

Movie
2015
Lost River

as Belladonna

Movie
2015
The Mill at Calder's End

as The Apparition of the Mill

Movie
2014Movie
2012Movie
2010TV
2008
The Boneyard Collection

as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

Movie
2006Movie
2003Movie
2000Movie
1998
The Capitol Conspiracy

as Agent Oakley

Movie
1997Movie
1994
Deep Above

as Mrs. Wagner

Movie
1992
Dracula in the Movies

as (archive footage)

Movie
1991Movie
1991
Dark Shadows

as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres

TV
1991
Dark Shadows

as Dr. Julia Hoffman

TV
1991
Dark Shadows

as Countess Natalie du Pres

TV
1988
War and Remembrance

as Elsa MacMahon

TV
1983
The Winds of War

as Mrs. Stoller

TV
1981Movie
1979
Silent Scream

as Victoria Engels

Movie
1978Movie
1978
Piranha

as Dr. Mengers

Movie
1978
Pretty Baby

as Josephine

Movie
1975
Shivers

as Betts

Movie
1974
Caged Heat

as Supt. McQueen

Movie
1970
Night Gallery

as The Widow Craighill

TV
1970
Ciao, Federico!

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1969Movie
1968Movie
1967Movie
1966
The She Beast

as Veronica

Movie
1966Movie
1966
An Angel for Satan

as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda

Movie
1966Movie
1965Movie
1965
Once Upon a Tractor

as Lady Clerk

Movie
1965
Nightmare Castle

as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith

Movie
1965Movie
1965TV
1964
The Long Hair of Death

as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein

Movie
1964
Easy Love

as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")

Movie
1964
The Monocle's Sour Laugh

as Valérie Gasparelli

Movie
1964
White Voices

as Guilia

Movie
1964
Three for a Robbery

as Barbara Sims

Movie
1964
Les baisers

as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')

Movie
1964
The Maniacs

as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")

Movie
1964
Castle of Blood

as Elisabeth Blackwood

Movie
1963Movie
1963
The Ghost

as Margaret Hichcock

Movie
1963Movie
1963

as Gloria Morin

Movie
1962
The Iron Captain

as Floriana

Movie
1962
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

as Cynthia Hichcock

Movie
1961
The Pit and the Pendulum

as Elizabeth Barnard Medina

Movie
1960
Black Sunday

as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

Movie
1960Movie
1959
Sapphire

as Student

Movie
1959Movie
1959TV
1959Movie
1959
The 39 Steps

as Extra

Movie
1958Movie
1958
Houseboat

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayDecember 29, 1937
Place of BirthBirkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Popularity0.8
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