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. 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.
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Acting (64 movies)
8½
1963
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
Piranha
1978
The 39 Steps
1959
Pretty Baby
1978
Black Sunday
1960
Shivers
1975
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
Silent Scream
1979
The Capitol Conspiracy
1998
Castle of Blood
1964
The Ghost
1963
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
1965
Sapphire
1959
Young Törless
1966
Caged Heat
1974
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964
The Long Hair of Death
1964
The American Nightmare
2000
The Butterfly Room
2012
Revenge of The Blood Beast
1966
Houseboat
1958
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Bachelor of Hearts
1958
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959
A Sentimental Attempt
1963
Honeymoon with a Stranger
1969
The Hours of Love
1963
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014
Fellinopolis
2021
The Heart of a Man
1959
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
White Voices
1964
Easy Love
1964
The Shutterbug Man
2014
The Mill at Calder's End
2015
Lost River
2015
Your Money or Your Wife
1960
Les baisers
1964
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970
Fear in the Dark
1991
The Iron Captain
1962
Deep Above
1994
Minutes Past Midnight
2016
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
Barbara and Her Furs
1967
Three for a Robbery
1964
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961
For Love and Gold
1966
Master of Dark Shadows
2019
Barbara Steele in Conversation
2009
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
An Angel for Satan
1966
Nightmare Castle
1965
The Boneyard Collection
2008
The Maniacs
1964
Ciao, Federico!
1970
The Phantom
2016
Italian Kings Of B
2003
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025
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