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