Barbara Steele

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1937-12-29 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Barbara Steele

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...

Acting

1963

as Gloria Morin

1978

Piranha

as Dr. Mengers

1959

The 39 Steps

as Extra

1978

Pretty Baby

as Josephine

1960

Black Sunday

as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

1975

Shivers

as Betts

1968

1979

Silent Scream

as Victoria Engels

1998

The Capitol Conspiracy

as Agent Oakley

1964

Castle of Blood

as Elisabeth Blackwood

1963

The Ghost

as Margaret Hichcock

1962

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

as Cynthia Hichcock

1959

Sapphire

as Student

1966

1974

Caged Heat

as Supt. McQueen

1964

The Monocle's Sour Laugh

as Valérie Gasparelli

1964

The Long Hair of Death

as Helen Rochefort / Mary

1958

Houseboat

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1958

1963

2021

Fellinopolis

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

1964

White Voices

as Guilia

1964

Easy Love

as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")

2014

2015

The Mill at Calder's End

as The Apparition of the Mill

2015

Lost River

as Belladonna

1960

1964

Les baisers

as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')

2023

Ulalume - A Ballad

as Narrator: opening credits (voice)

2016

Minutes Past Midnight

as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')

1991

1994

Deep Above

as Mrs. Wagner

1962

The Iron Captain

as Floriana

1965

1965

Once Upon a Tractor

as Lady Clerk

1964

Three for a Robbery

as Barbara Sims

1961

The Pit and the Pendulum

as Elizabeth Barnard Medina

1966

1965

Nightmare Castle

as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith

1966

An Angel for Satan

as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda

2008

The Boneyard Collection

as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

1964

The Maniacs

as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")

1970

Ciao, Federico!

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

2016

The Phantom

as The Widow

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