
Barbara Steele
Biography
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 …
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Filmography
Acting (81)
Movies (72)
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025as (Voice)
Ulalume - A Ballad
2023as Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Fellinopolis
2021as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Master of Dark Shadows
2019as Self
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019as Self
The Phantom
2016as The Widow
Minutes Past Midnight
2016as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
Lost River
2015as Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
2015as The Apparition of the Mill
The Shutterbug Man
2014as Narrator
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014as Self
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014as Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013as Self
The Butterfly Room
2012as Ann
Barbara Steele in Conversation
2009as Self
The Boneyard Collection
2008as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Mario Bava Speaks
2006as Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004as Self
Italian Kings Of B
2003as Self
The American Nightmare
2000as Self
The Capitol Conspiracy
1998as Agent Oakley
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997as Self
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
1996as Barbara
Deep Above
1994as Mrs. Wagner
Fear in the Dark
1991as Self
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981as Self
Silent Scream
1979as Victoria Engels
The Space-Watch Murders
1978
Pretty Baby
1978as Josephine
Piranha
1978as Dr. Mengers
The Key Is in the Door
1978as Cathy
Shivers
1975as Betts
Caged Heat
1974as Supt. McQueen
Ciao, Federico!
1970as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970as Danielle
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969as Carla
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968as Lavinia Morley
Barbara and Her Furs
1967as Self
Young Törless
1966as Bozena
For Love and Gold
1966as Teodora
The She Beast
1966as Veronica
An Angel for Satan
1966as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
Money
1965
Nightmare Castle
1965as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
1965as Cleo Hauff
Once Upon a Tractor
1965as Lady Clerk
Castle of Blood
1964as Elisabeth Blackwood
The Long Hair of Death
1964as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
Les baisers
1964as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
White Voices
1964as Guilia
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964as Valérie Gasparelli
The Maniacs
1964as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Easy Love
1964as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Three for a Robbery
1964as Barbara Sims
8½
1963as Gloria Morin
A Sentimental Attempt
1963as Silvia
The Ghost
1963as Margaret Hichcock
The Hours of Love
1963as Leila
The Iron Captain
1962as Floriana
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962as Cynthia Hichcock
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961as Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Black Sunday
1960as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Your Money or Your Wife
1960as Juliet Frost
Sapphire
1959as Student
The 39 Steps
1959as Extra
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959as Mary
Look at Life: Saving Face
1959as Self
The Heart of a Man
1959as Girl
Bachelor of Hearts
1958as Fiona
Houseboat
1958as Minor Role (uncredited)
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
as Self
Television (9)
Castlevania
2017as Miranda (voice)
A History of Horror
2010as Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009as Self
Dark Shadows
1991as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
1988as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
Night Gallery
1970as The Widow Craighill
Dim Dam Dom
1965as Self
Adventures in Paradise
1959as Dolores
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955as Phyllis
Crew (1)
Television (1)
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