Barbara Steele
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.
Fotos
Películas (72)
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
Minutes Past Midnight
2016 · The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
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
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
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
Ciao, Federico!
1970 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970 · Danielle
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969 · Carla
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968 · Lavinia Morley
Barbara and Her Furs
1967 · Self
The She Beast
1966 · Veronica
Young Törless
1966 · Bozena
An Angel for Satan
1966 · Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
For Love and Gold
1966 · Teodora
Money
1965 · Lucky
Once Upon a Tractor
1965 · Lady Clerk
Nightmare Castle
1965 · Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
1965 · Cleo Hauff
The Long Hair of Death
1964 · Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
Easy Love
1964 · Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964 · Valérie Gasparelli
White Voices
1964 · Guilia
Three for a Robbery
1964 · Barbara Sims
Les baisers
1964 · Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
The Maniacs
1964 · Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Castle of Blood
1964 · Elisabeth Blackwood
A Sentimental Attempt
1963 · Silvia
The Ghost
1963 · Margaret Hichcock
The Hours of Love
1963 · Leila
8½
1963 · Gloria Morin
The Iron Captain
1962 · Floriana
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962 · Cynthia Hichcock
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961 · Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Black Sunday
1960 · Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Your Money or Your Wife
1960 · Juliet Frost
Sapphire
1959 · Student (uncredited)
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959 · Mary
The Heart of a Man
1959 · Girl (scenes deleted)
The 39 Steps
1959 · Extra (uncredited)
Look at Life: Saving Face
1959 · Self
Bachelor of Hearts
1958 · Fiona
Houseboat
1958 · Minor Role (uncredited)
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
· Self
Series (12)
Castlevania
2017 · Miranda (voice)
A History of Horror
2010 · Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009 · Self
Dark Shadows
1991 · Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres, Dr. Julia Hoffman, Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
1988 · Elsa MacMahon, Producer
The Winds of War
1983 · Mrs. Stoller, Associate Producer
Night Gallery
1970 · The Widow Craighill
I Spy
1965 · Giana
Dim Dam Dom
1965 · Self
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Dolores
Dial 999
1958 · Toni Miller
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Phyllis