1937-12-29 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
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Ulalume - A Ballad | Narrator: opening credits (voice) | 2023-01-20 |
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Fellinopolis | Self - Actress (archive footage) | 2021-06-10 |
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Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Sé stessa | 2019-09-05 |
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Master of Dark Shadows | Self | 2019-04-16 |
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Le Fantôme | The Widow | 2016-10-14 |
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Minutes Past Midnight | The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End') | 2016-10-18 |
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Lost River | Belladonna | 2015-04-08 |
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The Mill at Calder's End | The Apparition of the Mill | 2015-03-22 |
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Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' | Self | 2014-10-13 |
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The Shutterbug Man | Narrator | 2014-12-17 |
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Behind the Swinging Blade | Self | 2014-05-19 |
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau | Self (archive footage) | 2014-08-24 |
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House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! | Self | 2013-10-01 |
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The Butterfly Room | Ann | 2012-08-04 |
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Barbara Steele in Conversation | Self | 2009-05-19 |
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The Boneyard Collection | Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires") | 2008-01-01 |
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Mario Bava Speaks | Self | 2006-11-16 |
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura | Self | 2004-04-30 |
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Italian Kings Of B | Self | 2003-01-01 |
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The American Nightmare | Self | 2000-09-11 |
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The Capitol Conspiracy | Agent Oakley | 1998-03-01 |
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Les deniers du culte | Self | 1997-06-19 |
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Tief oben | Mrs. Wagner | 1994-01-01 |
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Fear in the Dark | Self | 1991-10-29 |
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Sois belle et tais-toi ! | Self | 1981-03-04 |
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Silent Scream | Victoria Engels | 1979-11-23 |
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The Space-Watch Murders | 1978-01-04 | |
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Pretty Baby | Josephine | 1978-04-05 |
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La clé sur la porte | Cathy | 1978-12-13 |
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Piranha | Dr. Mengers | 1978-08-03 |
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Shivers | Betts | 1975-05-16 |
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Caged Heat | Supt. McQueen | 1974-04-19 |
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Ciao, Federico! | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1970-10-28 |
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Fermate il mondo... voglio scendere! | Danielle | 1970-10-08 |
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Honeymoon with a Stranger | Carla | 1969-12-23 |
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Curse of the Crimson Altar | Lavinia Morley | 1968-12-01 |
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Barbara et ses fourrures | Self | 1967-01-01 |
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Der junge Törless | Bozena | 1966-05-20 |
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Un angelo per Satana | Harriet Montebruno / Belinda | 1966-05-04 |
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The She Beast | Veronica | 1966-05-02 |
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L'armata Brancaleone | Teodora | 1966-04-07 |
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5 tombe per un medium | Cleo Hauff | 1965-06-23 |
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Amanti d'oltretomba | Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith | 1965-08-20 |
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Once Upon a Tractor | Lady Clerk | 1965-09-09 |
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I soldi | 1965-11-25 | |
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Tre per una rapina | Barbara Sims | 1964-08-01 |
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Le voci bianche | Guilia | 1964-08-12 |
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Danza macabra | Elisabeth Blackwood | 1964-02-27 |
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Amore facile | Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano") | 1964-10-03 |
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I lunghi capelli della morte | Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein | 1964-12-30 |
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Le monocle rit jaune | Valérie Gasparelli | 1964-09-16 |
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Les baisers | Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir') | 1964-05-14 |
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I maniaci | Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale") | 1964-03-28 |
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Un tentativo sentimentale | Silvia | 1963-10-04 |
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Le ore dell'amore | Leila | 1963-03-01 |
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8½ | Gloria Morin | 1963-02-14 |
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Lo spettro | Margaret Hichcock | 1963-03-30 |
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Il capitano di ferro | Floriana | 1962-10-26 |
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L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock | Cynthia Hichcock | 1962-08-01 |
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The Pit and the Pendulum | Elizabeth Barnard Medina | 1961-08-23 |
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La maschera del demonio | Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda | 1960-08-11 |
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Your Money or Your Wife | Juliet Frost | 1960-03-01 |
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Upstairs and Downstairs | Mary | 1959-11-02 |
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The 39 Steps | Extra | 1959-03-13 |
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Sapphire | Student | 1959-11-02 |
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The Heart of a Man | Girl | 1959-08-06 |
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Bachelor of Hearts | Fiona | 1958-12-12 |
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Houseboat | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1958-11-19 |
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