Barbara Steele
Acting
Born: 1937-12-29 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
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
🎬 Movies (20)
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025
(Voice)
Ulalume - A Ballad
2023
Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Fellinopolis
2021
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
Self
Master of Dark Shadows
2019
Self
Minutes Past Midnight
2016
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Phantom
2016
The Widow
Lost River
2015
Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
2015
The Apparition of the Mill
The Shutterbug Man
2014
Narrator
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
2014
Self
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014
Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
Self
The Butterfly Room
2012
Ann
Barbara Steele in Conversation
2009
Self
The Boneyard Collection
2008
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Mario Bava Speaks
2006
Self
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Self
Italian Kings Of B
2003
Self
📺 TV Shows (12)
Castlevania
2017
Miranda (voice)
A History of Horror
2010
Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Self
Dark Shadows
1991
Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
Dark Shadows
1991
Dr. Julia Hoffman
Dark Shadows
1991
Countess Natalie du Pres
War and Remembrance
1988
Elsa MacMahon
The Winds of War
1983
Mrs. Stoller
Night Gallery
1970
The Widow Craighill
Dim Dam Dom
1965
Self
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Dolores
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Phyllis