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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (44)
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
as (Voice)
2025
Ulalume - A Ballad
as Narrator: opening credits (voice)
2023
Fellinopolis
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
as Sé stessa
2019
Master of Dark Shadows
as Self
2019
Minutes Past Midnight
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
2016
The Phantom
as The Widow
2016
Lost River
as Belladonna
2015
The Mill at Calder's End
as The Apparition of the Mill
2015
The Shutterbug Man
as Narrator
2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
as Self
2014
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as Self
2013
The Butterfly Room
as Ann
2012
Barbara Steele in Conversation
as Self
2009
The Boneyard Collection
as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
2008
Mario Bava Speaks
as Self
2006
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
2004
Italian Kings Of B
as Self
2003
The American Nightmare
as Self
2000
The Capitol Conspiracy
as Agent Oakley
1998
Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Self
1997
Deep Above
as Mrs. Wagner
1994
Fear in the Dark
as Self
1991
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
1981
Silent Scream
as Victoria Engels
1979
The Key Is in the Door
as Cathy
1978
Piranha
as Dr. Mengers
1978
Pretty Baby
as Josephine
1978
The Space-Watch Murders
1978
Shivers
as Betts
1975
Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueen
1974
Ciao, Federico!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1970
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as Danielle
1970
Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Carla
1969
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as Lavinia Morley
1968
Barbara and Her Furs
as Self
1967
Young Törless
as Bozena
1966
An Angel for Satan
as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
1966
Revenge of The Blood Beast
as Veronica
1966
For Love and Gold
as Teodora
1966
Money
1965
Once Upon a Tractor
as Lady Clerk
1965
