Barbara Steele
Born: 1937-12-29 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
2023
- Ulalume - A Ballad as Narrator: opening credits (voice)
2021
- Fellinopolis as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019
2017
- Castlevania as Miranda (voice)
2016
- The Phantom as The Widow
- Minutes Past Midnight as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
2015
- Lost River as Belladonna
- The Mill at Calder's End as The Apparition of the Mill
2014
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
- Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' as Self
- The Shutterbug Man as Narrator
- Behind the Swinging Blade as Self
2013
2012
- The Butterfly Room as Ann
2010
- A History of Horror as Self
2009
- Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
- Barbara Steele in Conversation as Self
2008
- The Boneyard Collection as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
2006
- Mario Bava Speaks as Self
2004
- Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
2003
- Italian Kings Of B as Self
2000
- The American Nightmare as Self
1998
- The Capitol Conspiracy as Agent Oakley
1997
- Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self
1996
- Vampire Cult Queens from Hell as Barbara
1994
- Deep Above as Mrs. Wagner
1991
- Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
- Fear in the Dark as Self
1988
- War and Remembrance as Elsa MacMahon
1983
- The Winds of War as Mrs. Stoller
1981
- Be Pretty and Shut Up! as Self
1979
- Silent Scream as Victoria Engels
1978
- Pretty Baby as Josephine
- Piranha as Dr. Mengers
- The Key Is in the Door as Cathy
- The Space-Watch Murders
1975
- Shivers as Betts
1974
- Caged Heat as Supt. McQueen
1970
- Night Gallery as The Widow Craighill
- Ciao, Federico! as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 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
1967
- Barbara and Her Furs as Self
1966
- For Love and Gold as Teodora
- Young Törless as Bozena
- The She Beast as Veronica
- An Angel for Satan as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
1965
- Dim Dam Dom as Self
- Nightmare Castle as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
- Terror-Creatures from the Grave as Cleo Hauff
- Once Upon a Tractor as Lady Clerk
- Money
1964
- Castle of Blood as Elisabeth Blackwood
- The Long Hair of Death as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
- The Monocle's Sour Laugh as Valérie Gasparelli
- The Maniacs as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
- Easy Love as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
- Les baisers as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
- Three for a Robbery as Barbara Sims
- White Voices as Guilia
1963
- 8½ as Gloria Morin
- The Ghost as Margaret Hichcock
- The Hours of Love as Leila
- A Sentimental Attempt as Silvia
1962
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock as Cynthia Hichcock
- The Iron Captain as Floriana
1961
- The Pit and the Pendulum as Elizabeth Barnard Medina
1960
- Black Sunday as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
- Your Money or Your Wife as Juliet Frost
1959
- Adventures in Paradise as Dolores
- Sapphire as Student
- The 39 Steps as Extra
- Upstairs and Downstairs as Mary
- The Heart of a Man as Girl
- Look at Life: Saving Face as Self
1958
- Houseboat as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Bachelor of Hearts as Fiona
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Phyllis