Barbara Steele
Acting
Born December 29, 1937 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Films (70)
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025
Ulalume - A Ballad
2023
Fellinopolis
2021
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
Master of Dark Shadows
2019
Minutes Past Midnight
2016
The Phantom
2016
Lost River
2015
The Mill at Calder's End
2015
The Shutterbug Man
2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
The Butterfly Room
2012
Barbara Steele in Conversation
2009
The Boneyard Collection
2008
Mario Bava Speaks
2006
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Italian Kings Of B
2003
The American Nightmare
2000
The Capitol Conspiracy
1998
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
Deep Above
1994
Fear in the Dark
1991
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
Silent Scream
1979
The Key Is in the Door
1978
Piranha
1978
Pretty Baby
1978
The Space-Watch Murders
1978
Shivers
1975
Caged Heat
1974
Ciao, Federico!
1970
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
Barbara and Her Furs
1967
Young Törless
1966
An Angel for Satan
1966
The She Beast
1966
For Love and Gold
1966
Money
1965
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
Nightmare Castle
1965
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
1965
The Long Hair of Death
1964
Easy Love
1964
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964
White Voices
1964
Three for a Robbery
1964
Les baisers
1964
The Maniacs
1964
Castle of Blood
1964
A Sentimental Attempt
1963
The Ghost
1963
The Hours of Love
1963
8½
1963
The Iron Captain
1962
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961
Black Sunday
1960
Your Money or Your Wife
1960
Sapphire
1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
The Heart of a Man
1959
The 39 Steps
1959
Look at Life: Saving Face
1959
Bachelor of Hearts
1958
Houseboat
1958