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Barbara Steele
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 o…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
- 2025
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2023
Ulalume - A Ballad
Movie Narrator: opening credits (voice)
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2021
Fellinopolis
Movie Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2019
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2019
Master of Dark Shadows
Movie Self
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2017
Castlevania
TV show Miranda (voice)
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2016
Minutes Past Midnight
Movie The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
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2016
The Phantom
Movie The Widow
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2015
Lost River
Movie Belladonna
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2015
The Mill at Calder's End
Movie The Apparition of the Mill
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2014
The Shutterbug Man
Movie Narrator
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2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Movie Self
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2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
Movie Self
- 2013
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2012
The Butterfly Room
Movie Ann
More credits
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2010
A History of Horror
TV show Self
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2009
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV show Self
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2009
Barbara Steele in Conversation
Movie Self
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2008
The Boneyard Collection
Movie Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
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2006
Mario Bava Speaks
Movie Self
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2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Movie Self
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2003
Italian Kings Of B
Movie Self
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2000
The American Nightmare
Movie Self
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1998
The Capitol Conspiracy
Movie Agent Oakley
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1997
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Movie Self
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1996
Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
Movie Self
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1994
Deep Above
Movie Mrs. Wagner
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1992
Dracula in the Movies
Movie (archive footage)
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1991
Fear in the Dark
Movie Self
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1991
Dark Shadows
TV show Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
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1988
War and Remembrance
TV show Elsa MacMahon
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1983
The Winds of War
TV show Mrs. Stoller
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1981
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Movie Self
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1979
Silent Scream
Movie Victoria Engels
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1978
The Key Is in the Door
Movie Cathy
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1978
Piranha
Movie Dr. Mengers
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1978
Pretty Baby
Movie Josephine
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1978
The Space-Watch Murders
Movie
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1975
Shivers
Movie Betts
