Barbara Steele

Known for ActingBorn 1937-12-29 (age 88)Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Deep Above

Dracula in the Movies

Three for a Robbery

Master of Dark Shadows

Fear in the Dark

Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties

Castlevania

The Space-Watch Murders

War and Remembrance

8½

Dark Shadows

Money

Dim Dam Dom

Night Gallery

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

For Love and Gold

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

A History of Horror

The Winds of War

Black Sunday

Ciao, Federico!

The American Nightmare

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

Castle of Blood

Pretty Baby

Honeymoon with a Stranger

The Mill at Calder's End

The Iron Captain

Sapphire

The Heart of a Man

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Phantom

The Shutterbug Man

Fellinopolis

A Sentimental Attempt

Young Törless

Shivers

Italian Kings Of B

Houseboat

The Long Hair of Death

An Angel for Satan

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

The 39 Steps

Lost River

The Ghost

The Butterfly Room