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.
Pretty Baby
as JosephineHattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night...
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8½
as Gloria MorinGuido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged...
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The Pit and the Pendulum
as Elizabeth Barnard MedinaIn the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances...
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Piranha
as Dr. MengersWhen flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests...
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Shivers
as BettsWhen the residents of a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal are infiltrated by parasites...
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The Butterfly Room
as AnnA reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a...
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Houseboat
as Minor Role (uncredited)An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
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The She Beast
as VeronicaA young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the...
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Lost River
as BelladonnaBilly, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones,...
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau”
as Self (archive footage)The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a...
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Black Sunday
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia VajdaA vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and...
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For Love and Gold
as TeodoraA group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in...
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Castle of Blood
as Elisabeth BlackwoodWhen a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle,...
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Minutes Past Midnight
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. Demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts...
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Fellinopolis
as Self - Actress (archive footage)Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant...
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Cynthia HichcockThe year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral...
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave
as Cleo HauffAn attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's...
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Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueenA young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a...
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Nightmare Castle
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny ArrowsmithA sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
as MaryOn marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in...
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Sapphire
as StudentTwo Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been...
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The Maniacs
as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures...
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Young Törless
as BozenaAt an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the...
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Curse of the Crimson Altar
as Lavinia MorleyWhen his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last...
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An Angel for Satan
as Harriet Montebruno / BelindaAt the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is...
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The Ghost
as Margaret HichcockA woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start...
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The American Nightmare
as SelfAn examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they...
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The Capitol Conspiracy
as Agent OakleyMartial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is...
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Silent Scream
as Victoria EngelsScotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding....
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The Boneyard Collection
as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The...
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The Long Hair of Death
as Helen Rochefort / MaryIn a 15th century village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful...
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as SelfThe film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny...
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Hollywood Rated 'R'
as SelfA roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger...
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Ciao, Federico!
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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Bachelor of Hearts
as FionaA German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
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House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as SelfDocumentary on the making and impact of "House of Wax".
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The 39 Steps
as ExtraIn London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after...
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The Heart of a Man
as GirlSailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a...
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Master of Dark Shadows
as SelfRevealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a...
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Fear in the Dark
as SelfA short documentary on the history of the horror film narrated by Christopher Lee.
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Les baisers
as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors...
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White Voices
as GuiliaIn 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a...
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The Monocle's Sour Laugh
as Valérie GasparelliA French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear...
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Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
as Self"Parasite Memories" is a brand new retrospective piece on the film produced by High Rising...
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Once Upon a Tractor
as Lady ClerkShort film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
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Easy Love
as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
A Sentimental Attempt
as SilviaCarla and Dino, both in a matrimonail crisis, fall in love. But life will not help this love story.
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The Hours of Love
as LeilaGianni and Marietta get along wonderfully as lovers, but not as a couple. Despite being married,...
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Honeymoon with a Stranger
as CarlaWhile on honeymoon with her husband in Spain, a woman wakes up one morning to find he has...
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The Iron Captain
as FlorianaAfter his village is burned down, Captain Furio sets out for revenge.
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Your Money or Your Wife
as Juliet FrostA domestic comedy about a couple who take in boarders to pay the rent on their large house.
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Deep Above
as Mrs. WagnerIn the 16th century, young men put themselves in great danger to look for mysterious crystals in...
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The Mill at Calder's End
as The Apparition of the MillIn the remote village of Calder's End stands an old windmill, a repository of dark secrets....
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The Key Is in the Door
as CathyMarie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced...
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Three for a Robbery
as Barbara SimsGerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks....
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Behind the Swinging Blade
as SelfFilmed exclusively for Arrow Video in 2013, this documentary looks at the making of The Pit and...
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The Phantom
as The WidowAn enigmatic stranger, a couple who no longer exist, danger in the shadows and the key to it all...
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Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
as DanielleThis lysergically madcap Italian flick largely eschews any traditional plot. The most noticeable...
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Barbara and Her Furs
as SelfShort film for the french TV program "Dim Dam Dom". A love letter to Barbara Steele and...
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The Shutterbug Man
as NarratorThe Shutterbug Man tells the tale of a very twisted man, whose only passion in life is taking...
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Celebrity Ghost Stories
as SelfCompelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal...
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Adventures in Paradise
as DoloresAdventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...
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Night Gallery
as The Widow CraighillRod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as PhyllisA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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War and Remembrance
as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman...
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Castlevania
as Miranda (voice)A dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan,...
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A History of Horror
as SelfMark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's...
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Dark Shadows
as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du PresDark Shadows is a primetime television series which aired on NBC from January to March 1991. A...
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