Barbara Steele

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.

Cast

(Gloria Morin)

Hollywood Rated 'R'

(Self)

Piranha

(Dr. Mengers)

The 39 Steps

(Extra)

Pretty Baby

(Josephine)

Black Sunday

(Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda)

Shivers

(Betts)

Curse of the Crimson Altar

(Lavinia Morley)

Silent Scream

(Victoria Engels)

The Capitol Conspiracy

(Agent Oakley)

Castle of Blood

(Elisabeth Blackwood)

The Ghost

(Margaret Hichcock)

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

(Cynthia Hichcock)

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

(Cleo Hauff)

Sapphire

(Student)

Young Törless

(Bozena)

Caged Heat

(Supt. McQueen)

The Key Is in the Door

(Cathy)

The Monocle's Sour Laugh

(Valérie Gasparelli)

The Long Hair of Death

(Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein)

The American Nightmare

(Self)

The Butterfly Room

(Ann)

The She Beast

(Veronica)

Houseboat

(Minor Role (uncredited))

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

(Self (archive footage))

Bachelor of Hearts

(Fiona)

Upstairs and Downstairs

(Mary)

A Sentimental Attempt

(Silvia)

Honeymoon with a Stranger

(Carla)

The Hours of Love

(Leila)

Behind the Swinging Blade

(Self)

Fellinopolis

(Self - Actress (archive footage))

The Heart of a Man

(Girl)

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

(Self)

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

(Self)

White Voices

(Guilia)

Easy Love

(Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano"))

The Shutterbug Man

(Narrator)

The Mill at Calder's End

(The Apparition of the Mill)

Lost River

(Belladonna)

Your Money or Your Wife

(Juliet Frost)

Les baisers

(Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir'))

The Space-Watch Murders

Ulalume - A Ballad

(Narrator: opening credits (voice))

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

(Danielle)

Fear in the Dark

(Self)

Money

The Iron Captain

(Floriana)

Deep Above

(Mrs. Wagner)

Minutes Past Midnight

(The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End'))

Once Upon a Tractor

(Lady Clerk)

Barbara and Her Furs

(Self)

Three for a Robbery

(Barbara Sims)

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

(Self)

The Pit and the Pendulum

(Elizabeth Barnard Medina)

For Love and Gold

(Teodora)

Master of Dark Shadows

(Self)

Barbara Steele in Conversation

(Self)

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

(Self)

An Angel for Satan

(Harriet Montebruno / Belinda)

Nightmare Castle

(Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith)

The Boneyard Collection

(Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires"))

The Maniacs

(Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale"))

Ciao, Federico!

(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))

The Phantom

(The Widow)

Italian Kings Of B

(Self)

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

(Self)

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

(Self)

Mario Bava Speaks

(Self)

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

((Voice))

Look at Life: Saving Face

(Self)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(Phyllis)

Castlevania

(Miranda (voice))

Adventures in Paradise

(Dolores)

Dark Shadows

(Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres)

War and Remembrance

(Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party))

Night Gallery

(The Widow Craighill)

A History of Horror

(Self)

Celebrity Ghost Stories

(Self)

Dim Dam Dom

(Self)