Barbara Steele
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 29, 1937 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 84
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.
Known for
Filmography
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025Movie
(Voice)
Ulalume - A Ballad
2023Movie
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Fellinopolis
2021Movie
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019Movie
Self
Master of Dark Shadows
2019Movie
Self
Castlevania
2017TV
Miranda (voice)
Minutes Past Midnight
2016Movie
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
Lost River
2015Movie
Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
2015Movie
The Apparition of the Mill
The Shutterbug Man
2014Movie
Narrator
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014Movie
Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014Movie
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014Movie
Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013Movie
Self
The Butterfly Room
2012Movie
Ann
A History of Horror
2010TV
Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009TV
Self
Barbara Steele in Conversation
2009Movie
Self
The Boneyard Collection
2008Movie
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Mario Bava Speaks
2006Movie
Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004Movie
Self
Italian Kings Of B
2003Movie
Self
The American Nightmare
2000Movie
Self
The Capitol Conspiracy
1998Movie
Agent Oakley
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997Movie
Self
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
1996Movie
Self
Deep Above
1994Movie
Mrs. Wagner
Dracula in the Movies
1992Movie
(archive footage)
Fear in the Dark
1991Movie
Self
Dark Shadows
1991TV
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres, Dr. Julia Hoffman, Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
1988TV
Elsa MacMahon
The Winds of War
1983TV
Mrs. Stoller
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981Movie
Self
Silent Scream
1979Movie
Victoria Engels
The Key Is in the Door
1978Movie
Cathy
Piranha
1978Movie
Dr. Mengers
Pretty Baby
1978Movie
Josephine
The Space-Watch Murders
1978Movie
Shivers
1975Movie
Betts
Caged Heat
1974Movie
Supt. McQueen
Night Gallery
1970TV
The Widow Craighill
Ciao, Federico!
1970Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970Movie
Danielle
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969Movie
Carla
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968Movie
Lavinia Morley
Barbara and Her Furs
1967Movie
Self
The She Beast
1966Movie
Veronica
Young Törless
1966Movie
Bozena
An Angel for Satan
1966Movie
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
For Love and Gold
1966Movie
Teodora
Money
1965Movie
Lucky
I Spy
1965TV
Giana
Once Upon a Tractor
1965Movie
Lady Clerk
Nightmare Castle
1965Movie
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
1965Movie
Cleo Hauff
Dim Dam Dom
1965TV
Self
The Long Hair of Death
1964Movie
Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
Easy Love
1964Movie
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964Movie
Valérie Gasparelli
White Voices
1964Movie
Guilia
Three for a Robbery
1964Movie
Barbara Sims
Les baisers
1964Movie
Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
The Maniacs
1964Movie
Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Castle of Blood
1964Movie
Elisabeth Blackwood
A Sentimental Attempt
1963Movie
Silvia
The Ghost
1963Movie
Margaret Hichcock
The Hours of Love
1963Movie
Leila
8½
1963Movie
Gloria Morin
The Iron Captain
1962Movie
Floriana
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962Movie
Cynthia Hichcock
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961Movie
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Black Sunday
1960Movie
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Your Money or Your Wife
1960Movie
Juliet Frost
Sapphire
1959Movie
Student (uncredited)
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959Movie
Mary
Adventures in Paradise
1959TV
Dolores
The Heart of a Man
1959Movie
Girl (scenes deleted)
The 39 Steps
1959Movie
Extra (uncredited)
Look at Life: Saving Face
1959Movie
Self
Bachelor of Hearts
1958Movie
Fiona
Houseboat
1958Movie
Minor Role (uncredited)
Dial 999
1958TV
Toni Miller
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Phyllis
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Movie
Self