Barbara Steele
Actor
Born December 29, 1937 in 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.
Filmography
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Self
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
(Voice)
Fellinopolis
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Self
Master of Dark Shadows
Self
Castlevania
Miranda (voice)
Minutes Past Midnight
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Phantom
The Widow
Lost River
Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
The Apparition of the Mill
The Shutterbug Man
Narrator
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Swinging Blade
Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
The Butterfly Room
Ann
A History of Horror
Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
Barbara Steele in Conversation
Self
The Boneyard Collection
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
Italian Kings Of B
Self
The American Nightmare
Self
The Capitol Conspiracy
Agent Oakley
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Self
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
Barbara
Deep Above
Mrs. Wagner
Dracula in the Movies
(archive footage)
Fear in the Dark
Self
Dark Shadows
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
Elsa MacMahon
The Winds of War
Mrs. Stoller
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Self
Silent Scream
Victoria Engels
The Key Is in the Door
Cathy
Piranha
Dr. Mengers
Pretty Baby
Josephine
Shivers
Betts
Caged Heat
Supt. McQueen
Night Gallery
The Widow Craighill
Ciao, Federico!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Danielle
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Carla
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Lavinia Morley
Barbara and Her Furs
Self
The She Beast
Veronica
Young Törless
Bozena
An Angel for Satan
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
For Love and Gold
Teodora
Once Upon a Tractor
Lady Clerk
Nightmare Castle
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Cleo Hauff
Dim Dam Dom
Self
The Long Hair of Death
Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
Easy Love
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Valérie Gasparelli
White Voices
Guilia
Three for a Robbery
Barbara Sims
Les baisers
Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
The Maniacs
Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Castle of Blood
Elisabeth Blackwood
A Sentimental Attempt
Silvia
The Ghost
Margaret Hichcock
The Hours of Love
Leila
8½
Gloria Morin
The Iron Captain
Floriana
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Cynthia Hichcock
The Pit and the Pendulum
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Black Sunday
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Your Money or Your Wife
Juliet Frost
Sapphire
Student
Upstairs and Downstairs
Mary
Adventures in Paradise
Dolores
The Heart of a Man
Girl
The 39 Steps
Extra
Bachelor of Hearts
Fiona
Houseboat
Minor Role (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Phyllis