Barbara Shelley

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1932-02-13 (89 years old)

Deathday

2021-01-03

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Barbara Shelley

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Shelley (born 13 February 1932) was an English film and television actress. She was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in the aforementioned Dracula film) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) and in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire. In 20...

Acting

1960

Village of the Damned

as Anthea Zellaby

1967

Quatermass and the Pit

as Barbara Judd

1964

The Gorgon

as Carla Hoffman

1957

Cat Girl

as Leonora Johnson / Leonora Brandt

1961

The Shadow of the Cat

as Beth Venable

1958

Blood of the Vampire

as Madeleine Duval

1957

The End of the Line

as Liliane Crawford

1964

Blind Corner

as Anne Gregory

1974

Ghost Story

as Matron

1958

1962

1958

1958

1978

1962

Death Trap

as Jean Anscomb

1959

Bobbikins

as Valerie

1959

Deadly Record

as Susan Webb

1988

Maigret

as Louise Maigret

1956

1960

1992

1962

Stranglehold

as Chris Morrison

1987

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

as Helen Kent / Sonia (archive footage)

1994

2012

Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness

as Self - Original Cast Member / Helen Kent

1969

The Spy Killer

as Danielle

1956

Nero's Mistress

as A Guest at the Villa

1956

1987

The Dark Angel

as Cousin Monica

1972

A Marriage

as Clare

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