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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1937-12-29 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Barbara Steele

Biography:

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

Acting

2023

Ulalume - A Ballad as Narrator: opening credits (voice)

2021

Fellinopolis as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2019

2017

Castlevania as Miranda (voice)

2016

Minutes Past Midnight as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Phantom as The Widow

2015

The Mill at Calder's End as The Apparition of the Mill
Lost River as Belladonna

2014

The Shutterbug Man as Narrator

2013

2012

2010

2009

2008

The Boneyard Collection as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

2004

2003

2000

1998

The Capitol Conspiracy as Agent Oakley

1997

1994

Deep Above as Mrs. Wagner

1991

Dark Shadows as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres

1988

War and Remembrance as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)

1981

1979

Silent Scream as Victoria Engels

1978

Piranha as Dr. Mengers
Pretty Baby as Josephine

1975

Shivers as Betts

1974

Caged Heat as Supt. McQueen

1970

Ciao, Federico! as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Night Gallery as The Widow Craighill

1969

1968

Curse of the Crimson Altar as Lavinia Morley

1967

1966

Young Törless as Bozena
The She Beast as Veronica
An Angel for Satan as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda

1965

Once Upon a Tractor as Lady Clerk
Nightmare Castle as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Dim Dam Dom as Self

1964

Castle of Blood as Elisabeth Blackwood
The Monocle's Sour Laugh as Valérie Gasparelli
The Long Hair of Death as Helen Rochefort / Mary
White Voices as Guilia
Easy Love as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Les baisers as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
Three for a Robbery as Barbara Sims
The Maniacs as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")

1963

8½ as Gloria Morin
The Ghost as Margaret Hichcock

1962

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock as Cynthia Hichcock
The Iron Captain as Floriana

1961

The Pit and the Pendulum as Elizabeth Barnard Medina

1960

Black Sunday as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Your Money or Your Wife as Juliet Frost

1959

The 39 Steps as Extra
Sapphire as Student

1958

Houseboat as Minor Role (uncredited)

1955

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Production

1988