Barbara Steele
Acting
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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Barbara Steele
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Filmography of
Barbara Steele
... 2025
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
... 2023
Self - Actress (archive footage)
... 2021
... 2019
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
... 2016
The Widow
... 2016
Belladonna
... 2015
The Apparition of the Mill
... 2015
Narrator
... 2014
... 2014
Self (archive footage)
... 2014
... 2014
... 2013
... 2012
... 2009
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
... 2008
Self
... 2006
... 2004
Self
... 2003
... 2000
Agent Oakley
... 1998
Self
... 1997
Mrs. Wagner
... 1994
Self
... 1991
... 1981
Victoria Engels
... 1979
Cathy
... 1978
Dr. Mengers
... 1978
Josephine
... 1978
... 1978
Betts
... 1975
Supt. McQueen
... 1974
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
... 1970
Danielle
... 1970
... 1969
Lavinia Morley
... 1968
Self
... 1967
Bozena
... 1966
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
... 1966
Veronica
... 1966
Teodora
... 1966
... 1965
Lady Clerk
... 1965
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
... 1965
Cleo Hauff
... 1965
Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
... 1964
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
... 1964
Valérie Gasparelli
... 1964
Guilia
... 1964
Barbara Sims
... 1964
Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
... 1964
Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
... 1964
Elisabeth Blackwood
... 1964
Silvia
... 1963
Margaret Hichcock
... 1963
Leila
... 1963
Gloria Morin
... 1963
Floriana
... 1962
Cynthia Hichcock
... 1962
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
... 1961
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
... 1960
Juliet Frost
... 1960
Student
... 1959
... 1959
Girl
... 1959
Extra
... 1959
... 1959
Fiona
... 1958
Minor Role (uncredited)
... 1958
