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.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Castlevania
8.261
Adventures in Paradise
5.7
Dark Shadows
7.719
War and Remembrance
7.871
Night Gallery
7.8
A History of Horror
7.5
Celebrity Ghost Stories
7.3
Dim Dam Dom
6
Movies
8½
8.132
Hollywood Rated 'R'
5.1
Piranha
5.946
The 39 Steps
6.2
Pretty Baby
7
Black Sunday
7.438
Shivers
6.393
Curse of the Crimson Altar
5.3
Silent Scream
5.7
The Capitol Conspiracy
4.6
Castle of Blood
7.1
The Ghost
6
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
5.9
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
5.9
Sapphire
6.967
Young Törless
6.6
Caged Heat
4.862
The Key Is in the Door
4.7
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
5.3
The Long Hair of Death
6.4
The American Nightmare
7
The Butterfly Room
5.806
The She Beast
4.9
Houseboat
6.3
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
6.7
Bachelor of Hearts
5.6
Upstairs and Downstairs
5.6
A Sentimental Attempt
6.5
Honeymoon with a Stranger
6.5
The Hours of Love
5
Behind the Swinging Blade
0
Fellinopolis
6.467
The Heart of a Man
0
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
0
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
6.3
White Voices
5
Easy Love
2
The Shutterbug Man
6.3
The Mill at Calder's End
6.5
Lost River
5.7
Your Money or Your Wife
4
Les baisers
0
The Space-Watch Murders
0
Ulalume - A Ballad
0
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
5.5
Fear in the Dark
10
Money
0
The Iron Captain
0
Deep Above
0
Minutes Past Midnight
4.857
Once Upon a Tractor
5
Barbara and Her Furs
0
Three for a Robbery
0
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
5.5
The Pit and the Pendulum
6.846
For Love and Gold
7.698
Master of Dark Shadows
9.118
Barbara Steele in Conversation
0
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
0
An Angel for Satan
6.3
Nightmare Castle
5.4
The Boneyard Collection
5.333
The Maniacs
5
Ciao, Federico!
6.8
The Phantom
6.3
Italian Kings Of B
6
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
6
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
8.5