Barbara Steele
Acting
Born 1937-12-29
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Night Gallery
Castlevania
Adventures in Paradise
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Pretty Baby
Dim Dam Dom
8½
Dark Shadows
Piranha
Lost River
Shivers
Sapphire
Black Sunday
Caged Heat
Houseboat
The Pit and the Pendulum
Deep Above
For Love and Gold
A History of Horror
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Young Törless
Curse of the Crimson Altar
The 39 Steps
Fellinopolis
White Voices
The She Beast
Silent Scream
Dracula in the Movies
Nightmare Castle
The American Nightmare
The Butterfly Room
The Boneyard Collection
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Castle of Blood
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Minutes Past Midnight
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
Upstairs and Downstairs
The Capitol Conspiracy
The Long Hair of Death
The Heart of a Man
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
Fear in the Dark
Bachelor of Hearts
The Key Is in the Door
The Phantom
Once Upon a Tractor
Barbara Steele in Conversation
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The Maniacs
Italian Kings Of B
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Master of Dark Shadows
An Angel for Satan
Producing
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