Barbara Steele
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday29 December 1937 (88 years old)
Place of birthBirkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Known credits85
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…
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025 · (Voice)
Ulalume - A Ballad
2023 · Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Fellinopolis
2021 · Self - Actress (archive footage)
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019 · Self
Master of Dark Shadows
2019 · Self
Castlevania
2017 · Miranda (voice)
Minutes Past Midnight
2016 · The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Phantom
2016 · The Widow
Lost River
2015 · Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
2015 · The Apparition of the Mill
The Shutterbug Man
2014 · Narrator
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 · Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014 · Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013 · Self
The Butterfly Room
2012 · Ann
A History of Horror
2010 · Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009 · Self
Barbara Steele in Conversation
2009 · Self
The Boneyard Collection
2008 · Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Mario Bava Speaks
2006 · Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004 · Self
Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Self
The American Nightmare
2000 · Self
The Capitol Conspiracy
1998 · Agent Oakley
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997 · Self
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
1996 · Self
Deep Above
1994 · Mrs. Wagner
Dracula in the Movies
1992 · (archive footage)
Fear in the Dark
1991 · Self
Dark Shadows
1991 · Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
Dark Shadows
1991 · Dr. Julia Hoffman
Dark Shadows
1991 · Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
1988 · Elsa MacMahon
War and Remembrance
1988 · Producer
The Winds of War
1983 · Mrs. Stoller
The Winds of War
1983 · Associate Producer
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981 · Self
Silent Scream
1979 · Victoria Engels
The Key Is in the Door
1978 · Cathy
Piranha
1978 · Dr. Mengers
Pretty Baby
1978 · Josephine
The Space-Watch Murders
1978
Shivers
1975 · Betts
Caged Heat
1974 · Supt. McQueen
Night Gallery
1970 · The Widow Craighill
Ciao, Federico!
1970 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970 · Danielle
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