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Barbara Steele

Actress / Film Actress | * 12/29/1937 (86) | Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is an English film actress 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), and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), and appeared on televisi... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Horror | Comedies | Drama

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Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, ...

8 1/2

NR

1963 | 4.1/5 | 2h 19min
Fantasy, Drama
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A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome d ...

Black Sunday

NR

1960 | 3.7/5 | 1h 27min
Horror
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The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contac ...

Shivers

R

1975 | 3.2/5 | 1h 28min
Horror
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Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as ...

Pretty Baby

R

1978 | 3.5/5 | 1h 50min
Drama
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Movies with Barbara Steele as Actress(57)

as Self - Actress (archive footage)2021 Fellinopolis
as herself2019 Master of Dark Shadows
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')2016 Minutes Past Midnight
as Belladonna2015 Lost River
as Narrator2014 The Shutterbug Man
as The Apparition of the Mill2014 The Mill at Calder's End
as Self (archive footage)2014 Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau”
as herself2014 Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as herself2013 House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as Ann2012 The Butterfly Room
as herself2009 Barbara Steele in Conversation
as Vanessa Peabody2009 Her Morbid Desires
as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")2008 The Boneyard Collection
as Agent Oakley1999 The Prophet
as herself1997 Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Mrs. Wagner1994 Deep Above
as herself1991 Fear in the Dark
as herself1981 Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Victoria Engels1979 Silent Scream
as Josephine1978 Pretty Baby
as Cathy1978 The Key Is in the Door
as Dr. Mengers1978 Piranha
as Betts1975 Shivers
as Supt. McQueen1974 Caged Heat
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)1970 Ciao, Federico!
as Danielle1970 Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as Carla1969 Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Lavinia Morley1968 Curse of the Crimson Altar
as herself1967 Barbara and Her Furs
as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda1966 An Angel for Satan
as Veronica1966 The She Beast
as Bozena1966 Young Törless
as Teodora1966 For Love and Gold
as Lady Clerk1965 Once Upon a Tractor
1965 Money
as Cleo Hauff1965 Terror-Creatures from the Grave
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith1965 Nightmare Castle
as Helen Rochefort / Mary1964 The Long Hair of Death
as Guilia1964 White Voices
as Barbara Sims1964 Three for a Robbery
as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")1964 The Maniacs
as Elisabeth Blackwood1964 Castle of Blood
as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")1964 Easy Love
as Valérie Gasparelli1964 The Monocle's Sour Laugh
as Gloria Morin1963 8½
as Silvia1963 A Sentimental Attempt
as Leila1963 The Hours of Love
as Margaret Hichcock1963 The Ghost
as Cynthia Hichcock1962 The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Floriana1962 The Iron Captain
as Elizabeth Barnard Medina1961 The Pit and the Pendulum
as Juliet Frost1960 Your Money or Your Wife
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda1960 Black Sunday
as Mary1959 Upstairs and Downstairs
as Student1959 Sapphire
as Extra1959 The 39 Steps
as Fiona1958 Bachelor of Hearts

TV Shows/Series with Barbara Steele as Actress(9)

as Miranda (voice)2017 Castlevania
as herself2010 A History of Horror
as herself2009 Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres1991 Dark Shadows
as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)1988 War and Remembrance
as The Widow Craighill1970 Night Gallery
as herself1965 Dim Dam Dom
as Dolores1959 Adventures in Paradise
as Phyllis1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents

TV Shows/Series with Barbara Steele as Crew(1)

Production/Producer1988 War and Remembrance

Full Name: Barbara Steele
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Wednesday, 12/29 1937 (December) in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 86 years + 112 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN)
Spouses (current/former): James Poe
Other names for Barbara Steele (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"芭芭拉·斯蒂尔"
"Барбара Стіл"
"Barbara Steel"
Barbara Steele frequently works together with these people:
Raymond Bailey (11x, Actor)
Harry Tyler (11x, Actor)
Norman Lloyd (10x, Actor)
Patricia Hitchcock (10x, Actress)
John Williams (10x, Actor)
Russell Collins (9x, Actor)
Ray Teal (8x, Actor)
Robert H. Harris (8x, Actor)
Nedo Azzini (8x, Crew)
Chris Walsh (8x, Crew)
Bartlett Robinson (7x, Actor)
Edward L. Plumb (7x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:6493, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024