Barbara Steele

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1937-12-29 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Also Known As 芭芭拉·斯蒂尔, Барбара Стіл, Barbara Steel

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

2023
Ulalume - A Ballad

as Narrator: opening credits (voice)

2021
Fellinopolis

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

2017
Castlevania

as Miranda (voice)

2016
Minutes Past Midnight

as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')

2016
The Phantom

as The Widow

2015
Lost River

as Belladonna

2015
The Mill at Calder's End

as The Apparition of the Mill

2014
The Shutterbug Man

as Narrator

2008
The Boneyard Collection

as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

2003
1998
The Capitol Conspiracy

as Agent Oakley

1994
Deep Above

as Mrs. Wagner

1991
1991
Dark Shadows

as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres

1988
War and Remembrance

as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)

1979
Silent Scream

as Victoria Engels

1978
Piranha

as Dr. Mengers

1978
Pretty Baby

as Josephine

1975
Shivers

as Betts

1974
Caged Heat

as Supt. McQueen

1970
Ciao, Federico!

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1970
Night Gallery

as The Widow Craighill

1968
Curse of the Crimson Altar

as Lavinia Morley

1966
Young Törless

as Bozena

1966
An Angel for Satan

as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda

1966
The She Beast

as Veronica

1966
1965
1965
Once Upon a Tractor

as Lady Clerk

1965
Nightmare Castle

as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith

1965
Dim Dam Dom

as Self

1964
The Long Hair of Death

as Helen Rochefort / Mary

1964
Easy Love

as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")

1964
The Monocle's Sour Laugh

as Valérie Gasparelli

1964
White Voices

as Guilia

1964
Three for a Robbery

as Barbara Sims

1964
Les baisers

as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')

1964
The Maniacs

as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")

1964
Castle of Blood

as Elisabeth Blackwood

1963
1963
The Ghost

as Margaret Hichcock

1963
1963

as Gloria Morin

1962
The Iron Captain

as Floriana

1962
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

as Cynthia Hichcock

1961
The Pit and the Pendulum

as Elizabeth Barnard Medina

1960
Black Sunday

as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

1960
Your Money or Your Wife

as Juliet Frost

1959
Sapphire

as Student

1959
1959
The 39 Steps

as Extra

1959
1958
1958
Houseboat

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Producer

1988