Barbara Steele

Birthday: 1937-12-29
Birthplace: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
2025-11-20 Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol (Voice)
2016-10-18 Minutes Past Midnight The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
2016-10-14 The Phantom The Widow
2015-04-08 Lost River Belladonna
2015-03-22 The Mill at Calder's End The Apparition of the Mill
2012-08-04 The Butterfly Room Ann
2008-01-01 The Boneyard Collection Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
1998-03-01 The Capitol Conspiracy Agent Oakley
1994-01-01 Deep Above Mrs. Wagner
1979-11-23 Silent Scream Victoria Engels
1978-12-13 The Key Is in the Door Cathy
1978-08-03 Piranha Dr. Mengers
1978-04-05 Pretty Baby Josephine
1978-01-04 The Space-Watch Murders
1975-05-16 Shivers Betts
1974-04-19 Caged Heat Supt. McQueen
1970-10-08 Stop the World... I Want to Get Off! Danielle
1969-12-23 Honeymoon with a Stranger Carla
1968-12-01 Curse of the Crimson Altar Lavinia Morley
1966-05-20 Young Törless Bozena
1966-05-04 An Angel for Satan Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
1966-05-02 The She Beast Veronica
1966-04-07 For Love and Gold Teodora
1965-11-25 Money
1965-09-09 Once Upon a Tractor Lady Clerk
1965-08-20 Nightmare Castle Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
1965-06-23 Terror-Creatures from the Grave Cleo Hauff
1964-12-30 The Long Hair of Death Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
1964-10-03 Easy Love Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
1964-09-16 The Monocle's Sour Laugh Valérie Gasparelli
1964-08-12 White Voices Guilia
1964-08-01 Three for a Robbery Barbara Sims
1964-05-14 Les baisers Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
1964-03-28 The Maniacs Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
1964-02-27 Castle of Blood Elisabeth Blackwood
1963-10-04 A Sentimental Attempt Silvia
1963-03-30 The Ghost Margaret Hichcock
1963-03-01 The Hours of Love Leila
1963-02-14 Gloria Morin
1962-10-26 The Iron Captain Floriana
1962-08-01 The Horrible Dr. Hichcock Cynthia Hichcock
1961-08-12 The Pit and the Pendulum Elizabeth Barnard Medina
1960-08-11 Black Sunday Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
1960-03-01 Your Money or Your Wife Juliet Frost
1959-11-02 Sapphire Student
1959-11-02 Upstairs and Downstairs Mary
1959-08-06 The Heart of a Man Girl
1959-03-13 The 39 Steps Extra
1958-12-12 Bachelor of Hearts Fiona
1958-11-19 Houseboat Minor Role (uncredited)