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Barbara Steele

Acting

Born December 29, 1937 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Also known as 芭芭拉·斯蒂尔 · Барбара Стіл · Barbara Steel

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.

Awards & recognition

  • Time Machine Award · 2012

Filmography32 titles

Master of Dark Shadows

2019as Self

Castlevania

2017as Miranda (voice)

1963as Gloria Morin

Dark Shadows

1991as Countess Natalie du Pres

Night Gallery

1969as The Widow Craighill

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955as Phyllis

Black Sunday

1960as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2008as Self

Ciao, Federico!

1970as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Castle of Blood

1964as Elisabeth Blackwood

Pretty Baby

1978as Josephine

Sapphire

1959as Student

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961as Elizabeth Barnard Medina

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

2014as Self (archive footage)

Young Törless

1966as Bozena

Shivers

1975as Betts

Houseboat

1958as Minor Role (uncredited)

An Angel for Satan

1966as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda

The Long Hair of Death

1964as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein

The 39 Steps

1959as Extra

The Ghost

1963as Margaret Hichcock

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

1981as Self

Piranha

1978as Dr. Mengers

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

1965as Cleo Hauff

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

1962as Cynthia Hichcock

Lost River

2014as Belladonna

Nightmare Castle

1965as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith

Curse of the Crimson Altar

1968as Lavinia Morley

Caged Heat

1974as Supt. McQueen

The She Beast

1966as Veronica

Minutes Past Midnight

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

The Capitol Conspiracy

1998as Agent Oakley