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
2010
- A History of Horror as Self
2009
2008
- Fanex Files: Hammer Films as Self
2007
- Cinemassacre's Monster Madness as Helen Kent (archive footage)
- British Film Forever 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
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Helen Kent / Sonia (archive footage)
- The Dark Angel as Cousin Monica
1985
- EastEnders as Hester Samuels
1984
- The District Nurse as Mrs Pughe-Morgan
- Doctor Who: Planet of Fire as Sorasta
1983
- By the Sword Divided as Lady Welton
1981
- Bergerac as Catherine Prescott
- The Borgias as Vannozza Canale
1980
- Pride and Prejudice as Mrs Gardiner
1979
- Blankety Blank as Self
- Prince Regent as Lady Isobelle Hertford
1978
- Blake's 7 as Dr. Plaxton
- Tycoon as Sarah Vyner
- The Comedy of Errors as Courtesan
- People Like Us as Esther Frith
1975
- The Hanged Man as Louisa Galbraith
- Oil Strike North as Elaine Smythe
1974
- John Halifax, Gentleman as Lady Caroline
- Ghost Story as Matron
1972
- Crown Court as Madame Veda Bronski
- A Marriage as Clare
1971
- Justice as Aisling Ainsworth
- The Two Ronnies as Border Guard
1970
- Ben Travers Farces as Marguerite Hickett
- Bachelor Father as Lady Collins
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Clare
- Paul Temple as Mrs Hawthorn
- Hadleigh as Susan Paige
- Counterstrike as Elaine Pinot
- The Spy Killer as Danielle
1967
- Man in a Suitcase as Dolores Hornsby
- The Revenue Men as Renee
- Quatermass and the Pit as Barbara Judd
- Champion House as Mary Greenwood
- Mr. Rose as Letitia Jolly
1966
- Vendetta as Claudia
- Dracula: Prince of Darkness as Helen Kent
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk as Sonia
- Intrigue as Donna
- Preview Tonight as Selena
1965
- The Troubleshooters as Lita Perez
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army as Prudence
1964
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Bryn Watson
- 12 O'Clock High as Ann Gray
- Detective as Eve Race
- The Gorgon as Carla Hoffman
- Rupert of Hentzau as Queen Flavia
- The Secret of Blood Island as Elaine
- Blind Corner as Anne Gregory
1963
- Doctor Who as Sorasta
- The Human Jungle as Catherine
- The New Phil Silvers Show as Pamela
1962
- The Saint as Valerie North
- Z-Cars as Ruby Mason
- Suspense as Betty Blair
- The Lloyd Bridges Show as Clare
- Stranglehold as Chris Morrison
- Postman's Knock as Jean
- Death Trap as Jean Anscomb
1961
- The Avengers as Venus Browne
- Hazel as Anna Forti
- Kraft Mystery Theatre as Susan Webb
- Ghost Squad as Margaret Errington
- The Shadow of the Cat as Beth Venable
1960
- Route 66 as Jeannie
- Danger Man as Gina Scarlotti
- Sunday-Night Play as Irene Baumer
- Festival as Ruth
- Village of the Damned as Anthea Zellaby
- A Story of David as Abigail
1959
- No Hiding Place as Susan Pelham
- The Third Man as Diana Barratt
- Interpol Calling as Diana
- Edgar Wallace Mysteries as Jean Anscomb
- Charlesworth as Fredlicha
- Bobbikins as Valerie
- Deadly Record as Susan Webb
1958
- The Donna Reed Show as Paulette
- The Invisible Man as Helen
- Blood of the Vampire as Madeleine Duval
- Rendezvous as Rhonda Jones
- The Camp on Blood Island as Kate Keiller
- Murder at Site 3 as Susan
- The Solitary Child as Harriet
1957
- White Hunter as Martha Locklan
- Cat Girl as Leonora Johnson / Leonora Brandt
- The End of the Line as Liliane Crawford
1956
- Nero's Mistress as A Guest at the Villa
- Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge as Baronessa
- Supreme Confession as Bettina
- Lacrime di sposa as Barbara
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as Edwina
- ITV Play of the Week as Marion Dale
- Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion as Duchess
- Four of the Thundering Jet
- Destinazione Piovarolo
- Luna nova as Amira
- Motivo in maschera
- Tragic ballad as Betty Mason
1953
- Mantrap as Fashion show commentator
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Joyce Penrose