Barbara Steele

Personal Info

Birthday

December 29, 1937

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Also Known As

芭芭拉·斯蒂尔

Барбара Стіл

Barbara Steel

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.

Known For

Adventures in Paradise

Castlevania

Night Gallery

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Pretty Baby

Piranha

8½

Dark Shadows

Filmography

2023
Ulalume - A Ballad
as Narrator: opening credits (voice)
2021
Fellinopolis
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2019
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
as Sé stessa
Master of Dark Shadows
as Self
2016
Minutes Past Midnight
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Phantom
as The Widow
2015
Lost River
as Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
as The Apparition of the Mill
2014
The Shutterbug Man
as Narrator
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Swinging Blade
as Self
2013
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as Self
2012
The Butterfly Room
as Ann
2009
Barbara Steele in Conversation
as Self
2008
The Boneyard Collection
as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
2006
Mario Bava Speaks
as Self
2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
2003
Italian Kings Of B
as Self
2000
The American Nightmare
as Self
1998
The Capitol Conspiracy
as Agent Oakley
1997
Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Self
1994
Deep Above
as Mrs. Wagner
1991
Fear in the Dark
as Self
1981
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
1979
Silent Scream
as Victoria Engels
1978
The Key Is in the Door
as Cathy
Piranha
as Dr. Mengers
Pretty Baby
as Josephine
1975
Shivers
as Betts
1974
Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueen
1970
Ciao, Federico!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as Danielle
1969
Honeymoon with a Stranger
as Carla
1968
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as Lavinia Morley
1967
Barbara and Her Furs
as Self
1966
Young Törless
as Bozena
An Angel for Satan
as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
Revenge of The Blood Beast
as Veronica
For Love and Gold
as Teodora
1965
Once Upon a Tractor
as Lady Clerk
Nightmare Castle
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
as Cleo Hauff
1964
The Long Hair of Death
as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
Easy Love
as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
as Valérie Gasparelli
White Voices
as Guilia
Three for a Robbery
as Barbara Sims
Les baisers
as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
The Maniacs
as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Castle of Blood
as Elisabeth Blackwood
1963
A Sentimental Attempt
as Silvia
The Ghost
as Margaret Hichcock
The Hours of Love
as Leila
8½
as Gloria Morin
1962
The Iron Captain
as Floriana
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Cynthia Hichcock
1961
The Pit and the Pendulum
as Elizabeth Barnard Medina
1960
Black Sunday
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Your Money or Your Wife
as Juliet Frost
1959
Sapphire
as Student
Upstairs and Downstairs
as Mary
The Heart of a Man
as Girl
The 39 Steps
as Extra
1958
Bachelor of Hearts
as Fiona
Houseboat
as Minor Role (uncredited)