
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.

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