Actor
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 Pendul ...

Known For
Acting
2023 -- Ulalume - A Ballad | Narrator: opening credits (voice)
2021 -- Fellinopolis | Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019 -- Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Sé stessa
2019 -- Master of Dark Shadows | Self
2016 -- Minutes Past Midnight | The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
2016 -- The Phantom | The Widow
2015 -- Lost River | Belladonna
2015 -- The Mill at Calder's End | The Apparition of the Mill
2014 -- The Shutterbug Man | Narrator
2014 -- Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' | Self
2014 -- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Self (archive footage)
2014 -- Behind the Swinging Blade | 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 -- The Key Is in the Door | Cathy
1978 -- Piranha | Dr. Mengers
1978 -- Pretty Baby | Josephine
1978 -- The Space-Watch Murders |
1975 -- Shivers | Betts
1974 -- Caged Heat | Supt. McQueen
1970 -- Ciao, Federico! | Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1970 -- Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! | Danielle
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 -- An Angel for Satan | Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
1966 -- The She Beast | Veronica
1966 -- For Love and Gold | Teodora
1965 -- Money |
1965 -- Once Upon a Tractor | Lady Clerk
1965 -- Nightmare Castle | Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
1965 -- Terror-Creatures from the Grave | Cleo Hauff
1964 -- The Long Hair of Death | Helen Rochefort / Mary
1964 -- Easy Love | Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
1964 -- The Monocle's Sour Laugh | Valérie Gasparelli
1964 -- White Voices | Guilia
1964 -- Three for a Robbery | Barbara Sims
1964 -- Les baisers | Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
1964 -- The Maniacs | Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
1964 -- Castle of Blood | Elisabeth Blackwood
1963 -- A Sentimental Attempt | Silvia
1963 -- The Ghost | Margaret Hichcock
1963 -- The Hours of Love | Leila
1963 -- | Gloria Morin
1962 -- The Iron Captain | Floriana
1962 -- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock | Cynthia Hichcock
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 -- Upstairs and Downstairs | Mary
1959 -- Sapphire | Student
1959 -- The Heart of a Man | Girl
1959 -- The 39 Steps | Extra
1958 -- Bachelor of Hearts | Fiona
1958 -- Houseboat | Minor Role (uncredited)
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