Barbara Steele
Acting • Born 1937-12-29
Biography
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.
Filmography
80 credits
8½
Movie • 1963
Gloria Morin
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Movie • 1997
Self
Piranha
Movie • 1978
Dr. Mengers
The 39 Steps
Movie • 1959
Extra
Pretty Baby
Movie • 1978
Josephine
Black Sunday
Movie • 1960
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Shivers
Movie • 1975
Betts
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Movie • 1968
Lavinia Morley
Silent Scream
Movie • 1979
Victoria Engels
The Capitol Conspiracy
Movie • 1998
Agent Oakley
Castle of Blood
Movie • 1964
Elisabeth Blackwood
The Ghost
Movie • 1963
Margaret Hichcock
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Movie • 1962
Cynthia Hichcock
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Movie • 1965
Cleo Hauff
Sapphire
Movie • 1959
Student
Young Törless
Movie • 1966
Bozena
Caged Heat
Movie • 1974
Supt. McQueen
The Key Is in the Door
Movie • 1978
Cathy
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Movie • 1964
Valérie Gasparelli
The Long Hair of Death
Movie • 1964
Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
The American Nightmare
Movie • 2000
Self
The Butterfly Room
Movie • 2012
Ann
The She Beast
Movie • 1966
Veronica
Houseboat
Movie • 1958
Minor Role (uncredited)
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Bachelor of Hearts
Movie • 1958
Fiona
Upstairs and Downstairs
Movie • 1959
Mary
A Sentimental Attempt
Movie • 1963
Silvia
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Movie • 1969
Carla
The Hours of Love
Movie • 1963
Leila
Behind the Swinging Blade
Movie • 2014
Self
Fellinopolis
Movie • 2021
Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Heart of a Man
Movie • 1959
Girl
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Movie
Self
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Movie • 1981
Self
White Voices
Movie • 1964
Guilia
Easy Love
Movie • 1964
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
The Shutterbug Man
Movie • 2014
Narrator
The Mill at Calder's End
Movie • 2015
The Apparition of the Mill
Lost River
Movie • 2015
Belladonna
Your Money or Your Wife
Movie • 1960
Juliet Frost
Les baisers
Movie • 1964
Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
The Space-Watch Murders
Movie • 1978
Ulalume - A Ballad
Movie • 2023
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Movie • 1970
Danielle
Fear in the Dark
Movie • 1991
Self
Money
Movie • 1965
The Iron Captain
Movie • 1962
Floriana
Deep Above
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Wagner
Minutes Past Midnight
Movie • 2016
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
Once Upon a Tractor
Movie • 1965
Lady Clerk
Barbara and Her Furs
Movie • 1967
Self
Three for a Robbery
Movie • 1964
Barbara Sims
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Movie • 2014
Self
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie • 1961
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
For Love and Gold
Movie • 1966
Teodora
Master of Dark Shadows
Movie • 2019
Self
Barbara Steele in Conversation
Movie • 2009
Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Movie • 2013
Self
An Angel for Satan
Movie • 1966
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
Nightmare Castle
Movie • 1965
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
The Boneyard Collection
Movie • 2008
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
The Maniacs
Movie • 1964
Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Ciao, Federico!
Movie • 1970
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Phantom
Movie • 2016
The Widow
Italian Kings Of B
Movie • 2003
Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Movie • 2004
Self
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
Movie • 2019
Self
Mario Bava Speaks
Movie • 2006
Self
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
Movie • 2025
(Voice)
Look at Life: Saving Face
Movie • 1959
Self
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Phyllis
Castlevania
TV • 2017
Miranda (voice)
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Dolores
Dark Shadows
TV • 1991
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
TV • 1988
Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
The Widow Craighill
A History of Horror
TV • 2010
Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
Dim Dam Dom
TV • 1965
Self