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Aliases: 芭芭拉·斯蒂尔 , Барбара Стіл , Barbara Steel

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Homepage: https://thelastdrivein.com/2022/10/30/brides-of-horror-scream-queens-of-the-1960s-%F0%9F%8E%83-part-4/

Movie Involvements: 45

TV Involvements: 10


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Castlevania
Average
8

Castlevania

(2017) Miranda (voice)
Adventures in Paradise
Average
6

Adventures in Paradise

(1959) Dolores
Night Gallery
Average
8

Night Gallery

(1970) The Widow Craighill
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Average
7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Average
8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1955) Phyllis
8½
Average
8

(1963) Gloria Morin
Pretty Baby
Average
7

Pretty Baby

(1978) Josephine
Black Sunday
Average
8

Black Sunday

(1960) Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2021 Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019 Self
2017 Miranda (voice)
2016 The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Widow
2015 Belladonna
The Apparition of the Mill
2014 Narrator
Self
Self (archive footage)
Self
2013 Self
2012 Ann
2010 Self
2009 Self
Self
2008 Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
2000 Herself
1999 Agent Oakley
1997 Self
1994 Mrs. Wagner
1991 Self
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
1988 Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
1981 Self
1979 Victoria Engels
1978 Cathy
Dr. Mengers
Josephine
1975 Betts
1974 Supt. McQueen
1970 The Widow Craighill
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Danielle
1969 Carla
1968 Lavinia Morley
1967 Self
1966 Bozena
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
Veronica
Teodora
1965 N/A
Lady Clerk
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Cleo Hauff
Self
1964 Helen Rochefort / Mary
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Valérie Gasparelli
Guilia
Barbara Sims
Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Elisabeth Blackwood
1963 Silvia
Margaret Hichcock
Leila
Gloria Morin
1962 Floriana
Cynthia Hichcock
1961 Elizabeth Barnard Medina
1960 Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Juliet Frost
1959 Mary
Student
Dolores
Girl
Extra
1958 Fiona
Minor Role (uncredited)
1955 Phyllis
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1988 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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