Barbara Steele
Acting
1937-12-29 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025 · Movie
Ulalume - A Ballad
2023 · Movie
Fellinopolis
2021 · Movie
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019 · Movie
Master of Dark Shadows
2019 · Movie
Castlevania
2017 · Series
Minutes Past Midnight
2016 · Movie
The Phantom
2016 · Movie
Lost River
2015 · Movie
The Mill at Calder's End
2015 · Movie
The Shutterbug Man
2014 · Movie
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014 · Movie
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014 · Movie
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014 · Movie
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013 · Movie
The Butterfly Room
2012 · Movie
A History of Horror
2010 · Series
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009 · Series
Barbara Steele in Conversation
2009 · Movie
The Boneyard Collection
2008 · Movie
Mario Bava Speaks
2006 · Movie
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004 · Movie
Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Movie
The American Nightmare
2000 · Movie
The Capitol Conspiracy
1998 · Movie
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997 · Movie
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
1996 · Movie
Deep Above
1994 · Movie
Dracula in the Movies
1992 · Movie
Fear in the Dark
1991 · Movie
Dark Shadows
1991 · Series
War and Remembrance
1988 · Series
The Winds of War
1983 · Series
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981 · Movie
Silent Scream
1979 · Movie
The Key Is in the Door
1978 · Movie
Piranha
1978 · Movie
Pretty Baby
1978 · Movie
The Space-Watch Murders
1978 · Movie
Shivers
1975 · Movie
Caged Heat
1974 · Movie
Night Gallery
1970 · Series
Ciao, Federico!
1970 · Movie
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970 · Movie
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969 · Movie
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968 · Movie
Barbara and Her Furs
1967 · Movie
The She Beast
1966 · Movie
Young Törless
1966 · Movie
An Angel for Satan
1966 · Movie
For Love and Gold
1966 · Movie
Money
1965 · Movie
Once Upon a Tractor
1965 · Movie
Nightmare Castle
1965 · Movie
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
1965 · Movie
Dim Dam Dom
1965 · Series
The Long Hair of Death
1964 · Movie
Easy Love
1964 · Movie
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964 · Movie
White Voices
1964 · Movie
Three for a Robbery
1964 · Movie
Les baisers
1964 · Movie
The Maniacs
1964 · Movie
Castle of Blood
1964 · Movie
A Sentimental Attempt
1963 · Movie
The Ghost
1963 · Movie
The Hours of Love
1963 · Movie
8½
1963 · Movie
The Iron Captain
1962 · Movie
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962 · Movie
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961 · Movie
Black Sunday
1960 · Movie
Your Money or Your Wife
1960 · Movie
Sapphire
1959 · Movie
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959 · Movie
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Series
The Heart of a Man
1959 · Movie
The 39 Steps
1959 · Movie
Look at Life: Saving Face
1959 · Movie
Bachelor of Hearts
1958 · Movie
Houseboat
1958 · Movie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Series
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Movie