Barbara Steele
53 movies · 9 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 29, 1937 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- 芭芭拉·斯蒂尔 · Барбара Стіл · Barbara Steel
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Barbara Steele: movies and TV shows
Acting (62)
- 2025
- 2023 Ulalume - A Ballad
as Narrator: opening credits (voice)
- 2017
- 2016 Minutes Past Midnight
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
- 2015 Lost River
as Belladonna
- 2015 The Mill at Calder's End
as The Apparition of the Mill
- 2014 The Shutterbug Man
as Narrator
- 2012 The Butterfly Room
as Ann
- 2008 The Boneyard Collection
as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
- 1998 The Capitol Conspiracy
as Agent Oakley
- 1994 Deep Above
as Mrs. Wagner
- 1992 Dracula in the Movies
as (archive footage)
- 1991 Dark Shadows · TV
as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres / Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres · 12 episodes
- 1988
- 1983
- 1979 Silent Scream
as Victoria Engels
- 1978 The Key Is in the Door
as Cathy
- 1978 Piranha
as Dr. Mengers
- 1978 Pretty Baby
as Josephine
- 1978
- 1975 Shivers
as Betts
- 1974 Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueen
- 1970
- 1970 Ciao, Federico!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1970 Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as Danielle
- 1969 Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Carla
- 1968 Curse of the Crimson Altar
as Lavinia Morley
- 1966 The She Beast
as Veronica
- 1966 Young Törless
as Bozena
- 1966 An Angel for Satan
as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
- 1966 For Love and Gold
as Teodora
- 1965 Money
as Lucky
- 1965
- 1965 Once Upon a Tractor
as Lady Clerk
- 1965 Nightmare Castle
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
- 1965 Terror-Creatures from the Grave
as Cleo Hauff
- 1964 The Long Hair of Death
as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
- 1964 Easy Love
as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
- 1964 The Monocle's Sour Laugh
as Valérie Gasparelli
- 1964 White Voices
as Guilia
- 1964 Three for a Robbery
as Barbara Sims
- 1964 Les baisers
as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
- 1964 The Maniacs
as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
- 1964 Castle of Blood
as Elisabeth Blackwood
- 1963 A Sentimental Attempt
as Silvia
- 1963 The Ghost
as Margaret Hichcock
- 1963 The Hours of Love
as Leila
- 1963 8½
as Gloria Morin
- 1962 The Iron Captain
as Floriana
- 1962 The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Cynthia Hichcock
- 1961 The Pit and the Pendulum
as Elizabeth Barnard Medina
- 1960 Black Sunday
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
- 1960 Your Money or Your Wife
as Juliet Frost
- 1959 Sapphire
as Student (uncredited)
- 1959 Upstairs and Downstairs
as Mary
- 1959
- 1959 The Heart of a Man
as Girl (scenes deleted)
- 1959 The 39 Steps
as Extra (uncredited)
- 1958 Bachelor of Hearts
as Fiona
- 1958 Houseboat
as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1958
- 1955
Behind the camera (2)
- 1988
- 1983
Talk shows and appearances (22)
- Upcoming
- 2021
- 2019
- 2019
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- 2013
- 2010 A History of Horror
3 episodes
- 2009 Celebrity Ghost Stories
1 episode
- 2009
- 2006
- 2004
- 2003
- 2000
- 1997
- 1996
- 1991
- 1981
- 1967
- 1965 Dim Dam Dom
1 episode
- 1959