Barbara Steele
Acting
Born 1937-12-29
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
83 credits
Read 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.
Not enough member ratings yet.
Sign in to rate.
Filmography
— top 60 of 83
Acting
59 credits
Night Gallery
The Winds of War
Castlevania
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Adventures in Paradise
Pretty Baby
War and Remembrance
8½
Dim Dam Dom
A History of Horror
Dark Shadows
Piranha
Lost River
Shivers
Houseboat
Caged Heat
Black Sunday
Sapphire
The Pit and the Pendulum
For Love and Gold
The 39 Steps
Nightmare Castle
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Young Törless
Fellinopolis
Deep Above
The She Beast
Minutes Past Midnight
Dracula in the Movies
The Butterfly Room
Castle of Blood
Silent Scream
The American Nightmare
White Voices
The Phantom
Upstairs and Downstairs
The Boneyard Collection
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
The Maniacs
The Heart of a Man
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Honeymoon with a Stranger
The Capitol Conspiracy
Master of Dark Shadows
The Long Hair of Death
Italian Kings Of B
An Angel for Satan
The Hours of Love
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
The Ghost
Fear in the Dark
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Les baisers
Bachelor of Hearts
Producing
2 credits
Other credits
1 credit
Track what you watch
DuckTrack members see which of these they have already watched,
right here on this page.
Create a free account
Comments
0 commentsNo comments yet. Sign in to be the first.