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Barbara Steele

Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn December 29, 1937 (87 years)
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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Piranha
  • Black Sunday
  • Caged Heat
  • Castle of Blood
  • Nightmare Castle
  • Sapphire
  • The 39 Steps
  • The Silent Scream
  • The Long Hair of Death
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
  • The Ghost
  • Terror-Creatures from the Grave

Known For

  • Black Sunday
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • Piranha
  • Shivers
  • Castle of Blood
  • Nightmare Castle
  • The Butterfly Room
  • Lost River
  • The Winds of War
  • The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
  • The Long Hair of Death
  • Pretty Baby
  • She Beast
  • War and Remembrance
  • The Ghost
  • Terror-Creatures from the Grave
  • An Angel for Satan
  • The Silent Scream
  • The Crimson Cult
  • Minutes Past Midnight
  • Caged Heat
  • The 39 Steps
  • Young Törless

Filmography

2019
2017
Castlevania (TV Series) · as Miranda (voice)
2016
Minutes Past Midnight · as The Apparition Of The Mill (segment 'the Mill At Calder's End')
2014
Lost River · as Belladonna
2012
2008
Her Morbid Desires · as Vanessa Peabody
2008
The Boneyard Collection · as Vanessa Peabody (segment "her Morbid Desires")
1998
The Prophet · as Agent Oakley
1991
Dark Shadows (1991) (TV Series) · as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie Du Pres
1988
War and Remembrance (TV Series) · as Elsa Macmahon (singapore Christmas Party)
1983
The Winds of War (TV Series) · as Mrs. Stoller
1979
The Silent Scream · as Victoria Engels
1978
1978
Piranha · as Dr. Mengers
1978
Pretty Baby · as Josephine
1977
1975
Shivers · as Betts
1974
Caged Heat · as Supt. Mcqueen
1970
Ciao, Federico! · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1969
1969
Night Gallery (TV Series) · as The Widow Craighill
1968
The Crimson Cult · as Lavinia Morley
1966
Young Törless · as Bozena
1966
An Angel for Satan · as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
1966
She Beast · as Veronica
1966
For Love and Gold · as Teodora
1965
I Spy (TV Series) · as Giana
1965
Nightmare Castle · as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
1965
1964
The Long Hair of Death · as Helen Rochefort / Mary
1964
Amore facile · as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "divorzio Italo-Americano")
1964
The Monocle · as Valérie Gasparelli
1964
White Voices · as Guilia
1964
Tre per una rapina · as Barbara Sims
1964
Les baisers · as Thelma (episode 3: 'baiser Du Soir')
1964
I maniaci · as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la Cambiale")
1964
Castle of Blood · as Elisabeth Blackwood
1963
The Ghost · as Margaret Hichcock
1963
The Hours of Love · as Leila
1963
· as Gloria Morin
1962
Il capitano di ferro · 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
1959
Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) · as Dolores
1959
Sapphire · as Student
1959
1959
1958
Bachelor of Hearts · as Fiona
1958
Houseboat · as Minor Role (uncredited)
1958
Dial 999 (TV Series) · as Toni Miller
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Phyllis

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