Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 29, 1937
Place of Birth:
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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Barbara Steele
Biography
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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sé stessa |
| 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") |
| 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 | The She 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 Rochefort / Mary |
| 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 |
| 1958 | Houseboat | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Bachelor of Hearts | Fiona |
| Mary Woronov: Cult Queen |
| 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 |