
Barbara Steele
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

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 Key Is in the Door
1978

The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964

The Long Hair of Death
1964

The American Nightmare
2000

The Butterfly Room
2012

The She 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

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
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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

The Space-Watch Murders
1978

Ulalume - A Ballad
2023

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
1970

Minutes Past Midnight
2016

Fear in the Dark
1991

Deep Above
1994

The Iron Captain
1962

Money
1965

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

Nightmare Castle
1965

An Angel for Satan
1966

The Boneyard Collection
2008

The Maniacs
1964

Ciao, Federico!
1970

The Phantom
2016

Italian Kings Of B
2003

Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004

Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019

Mario Bava Speaks
2006

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025

Look at Life: Saving Face
1959

Vampire Cult Queens from Hell
1996

Dracula in the Movies
1992

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Castlevania
2017

Adventures in Paradise
1959

Dark Shadows
1991

War and Remembrance
1988

Night Gallery
1970

A History of Horror
2010

Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009

Dim Dam Dom
1965