Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele (born December 29, 1937, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England) is an English film actress. She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), now hailed as a classic.
Steele starred in a string of horror films, including The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Ghost, directed by Riccardo Freda and Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Pit and the Pendulum. She guested on various British television shows including the spy drama Danger Man starring Patrick McGoohan. In 2010, she was a guest star in the Dark Shadows audio drama The Night Whispers.
In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday (1960) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.
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Known for
Castle of Blood
Elisabeth Blackwood
Castlevania
Miranda (voice)
The Maniacs
Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Lost River
Belladonna
Night Gallery
The Widow Craighill
Sapphire
Student
8½
Gloria Morin
Houseboat
Minor Role (uncredited)
Caged Heat
Supt. McQueen
Adventures in Paradise
Dolores
Shivers
Betts
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Cleo Hauff
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Phyllis
Silent Scream
Victoria Engels
Revenge of The Blood Beast
Veronica
The Capitol Conspiracy
Agent Oakley
Pretty Baby
Josephine
Ciao, Federico!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Butterfly Room
Ann
The American Nightmare
Self
Money
Black Sunday
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Fellinopolis
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
For Love and Gold
Teodora
The 39 Steps
Extra
Bachelor of Hearts
Fiona
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Self
Les baisers
Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
The Boneyard Collection
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
White Voices
Guilia
Dim Dam Dom
Self
Minutes Past Midnight
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
War and Remembrance
Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
An Angel for Satan
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
The Heart of a Man
Girl
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Cynthia Hichcock
Master of Dark Shadows
Self
Piranha
Dr. Mengers
Dark Shadows
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Lavinia Morley
The Ghost
Margaret Hichcock
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Carla
Upstairs and Downstairs
Mary
A Sentimental Attempt
Silvia
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Self
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Danielle
Easy Love
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
The Phantom
The Widow
Italian Kings Of B
Self
The Iron Captain
Floriana
Three for a Robbery
Barbara Sims
Behind the Swinging Blade
Self
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Sé stessa
Your Money or Your Wife
Juliet Frost
The Hours of Love
Leila
Once Upon a Tractor
Lady Clerk
The Long Hair of Death
Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
Young Törless
Bozena
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
The Mill at Calder's End
The Apparition of the Mill
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Valérie Gasparelli
The Space-Watch Murders
Ulalume - A Ballad
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Mario Bava Speaks
Self
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The Pit and the Pendulum
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Nightmare Castle
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
The Key Is in the Door
Cathy
Look at Life: Saving Face
Self
A History of Horror
Self
Barbara Steele in Conversation
Self
Deep Above
Mrs. Wagner
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
The Shutterbug Man
Narrator
Fear in the Dark
Self
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self
Barbara and Her Furs
Self
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
(Voice)
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self