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