1937-12-29 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.
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Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol | (Voice) | 2025-11-20 |
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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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Master of Dark Shadows | Self | 2019-04-16 |
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Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Self | 2019-09-05 |
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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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The Mill at Calder's End | The Apparition of the Mill | 2015-03-22 |
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Lost River | Belladonna | 2015-04-08 |
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Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' | Self | 2014-10-13 |
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Behind the Swinging Blade | Self | 2014-05-19 |
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The Shutterbug Man | Narrator | 2014-12-17 |
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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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Vampire Cult Queens from Hell | Barbara | 1996-01-01 |
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Tief oben | Mrs. Wagner | 1994-01-01 |
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Dracula in the Movies | 1992-01-01 | |
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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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Piranha | Dr. Mengers | 1978-08-03 |
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La clé sur la porte | Cathy | 1978-12-13 |
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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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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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The She Beast | Veronica | 1966-06-01 |
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L'armata Brancaleone | Teodora | 1966-04-07 |
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Un angelo per Satana | Harriet Montebruno / Belinda | 1966-05-04 |
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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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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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Tre per una rapina | Barbara Sims | 1964-08-01 |
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I maniaci | Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale") | 1964-03-28 |
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Amore facile | Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano") | 1964-10-03 |
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Le monocle rit jaune | Valérie Gasparelli | 1964-09-16 |
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I lunghi capelli della morte | Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein | 1964-12-30 |
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Danza macabra | Elisabeth Blackwood | 1964-02-27 |
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Le voci bianche | Guilia | 1964-08-12 |
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Les baisers | Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir') | 1964-05-14 |
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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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Lo spettro | Margaret Hichcock | 1963-03-30 |
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8½ | Gloria Morin | 1963-02-14 |
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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 | 1961-08-12 |
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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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The 39 Steps | Extra | 1959-03-13 |
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Look at Life: Saving Face | Self | 1959-01-01 |
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Upstairs and Downstairs | Mary | 1959-11-02 |
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The Heart of a Man | Girl | 1959-08-06 |
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Sapphire | Student | 1959-11-02 |
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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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Mary Woronov: Cult Queen | Self |
