
Barbara Steele
Acting
🎂 1937-12-29
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 Dark Shadows audio drama The Night Whispers. In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday (1960) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(78)

Dolores
1959

Miranda (voice)
2017

Self
1965

Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
1991

Phyllis
1955

The Widow Craighill
1970

Self
2009

Self
2010

Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
1965

Josephine
1978

Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
1988

Gloria Morin
1963

Dr. Mengers
1978

Minor Role (uncredited)
1958

Victoria Engels
1979

Belladonna
2015

Betts
1975

Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
1960

Elizabeth Barnard Medina
1961

Veronica
1966

Self (archive footage)
2014

Ann
2012

Student
1959

Supt. McQueen
1974

Agent Oakley
1998

Lavinia Morley
1968

Teodora
1966

Extra
1959

Self
1981

Cynthia Hichcock
1962

Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
1964

Girl
1959

Helen Rochefort / Mary
1964

Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
1966

Cleo Hauff
1965

Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
2008

Bozena
1966

Self
2000

Elisabeth Blackwood
1964

Margaret Hichcock
1963

Self
1997

Self
2019

Mary
1959

Guilia
1964
1965

The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
2016

Leila
1963
Cathy
1978

Juliet Frost
1960

Self
2004

Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
1964

The Apparition of the Mill
2015

Self
2014

Self - Actress (archive footage)
2021

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1970

Carla
1969

Self
2014

Fiona
1958
1978

Self
2013

Danielle
1970

Mrs. Wagner
1994

Valérie Gasparelli
1964

The Widow
2016

Lady Clerk
1965

Self
2003

Floriana
1962

Sé stessa
2019

Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
1964

Self
1991

Barbara Sims
1964

Self
1967


Silvia
1963
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
2023

Narrator
2014

Self
2009
Self
2006