Barbara Shelley
Born: 1932-02-13 in London, England, UK
Died: 2021-01-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Shelley (born 13 February 1932) was an English film and television actress. She was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in the aforementioned Dracula film) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) and in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire. In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror. She died on 3 January 2021, at the age of 88. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Shelley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2013
- The House of Horror - Memories of Bray as Herself
2012
- Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness as Self - Original Cast Member / Helen Kent
2008
- Fanex Files: Hammer Films as Self
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- The World of Hammer: Vamp as Helen Kent
1992
- The Stranger: More Than a Messiah as Charlotte Darton
1991
- The Stranger as Charlotte
1989
- The Dark Angel as Cousin Monica
1988
- Maigret as Louise Maigret
1987
- The Dark Angel as Cousin Monica
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Helen Kent / Sonia (archive footage)
1984
- Doctor Who: Planet of Fire as Sorasta
1983
1981
- Bergerac as Catherine Prescott
- The Borgias as Vannozza Canale
1980
- Pride and Prejudice as Mrs. Gardiner
1978
- Blake's 7 as Dr. Plaxton
- The Comedy of Errors as Courtesan
- Tycoon as Sarah Vyner
1975
- The Hanged Man as Louisa Galbraith
- Oil Strike North
1974
- Ghost Story as Matron
1972
- Crown Court as Madame Veda Bronski
- A Marriage as Clare
1971
- Justice as Aisling Ainsworth
1969
- The Spy Killer as Danielle
- Counterstrike
1967
- Man in a Suitcase
- Quatermass and the Pit as Barbara Judd
1966
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk as Sonia
- Dracula: Prince of Darkness as Helen Kent
1964
- The Gorgon as Carla Hoffman
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Bryn Watson
- The Secret of Blood Island as Elaine
- Detective
- Blind Corner as Anne Gregory
1963
- Doctor Who as Sorasta
- The Human Jungle as Catherine
1962
- The Saint as Valerie North
- Stranglehold as Chris Morrison
- Suspense
- Postman's Knock as Jean
- Death Trap as Jean Anscomb
1961
- The Avengers as Venus
- Hazel as Anna Forti
- The Shadow of the Cat as Beth Venable
1960
- Route 66
- Danger Man
- Village of the Damned as Anthea Zellaby
- A Story of David as Abigail
1959
- No Hiding Place
- The Third Man
- Bobbikins as Valerie
- Interpol Calling as Diana
- Deadly Record as Susan Webb
1958
- The Donna Reed Show as Paulette
- Blood of the Vampire as Madeleine Duval
- The Camp on Blood Island as Kate Keiller
- Murder at Site 3 as Susan
- The Solitary Child as Harriet
1957
- Cat Girl as Leonora Johnson / Leonora Brandt
- The End of the Line as Liliane Crawford
1956
- Supreme Confession as Bettina
- Nero's Mistress as A Guest at the Villa
- Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge as Baronessa
- Lacrime di sposa as Barbara