Barbara Steele

Born: 1937-12-29

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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Pretty Baby

as Josephine
Released: 1978-04-05

Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night...

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as Gloria Morin
Released: 1963-02-14

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged...

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Piranha

as Dr. Mengers
Released: 1978-08-03

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests...

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Shivers

as Betts
Released: 1975-09-26

When the residents of a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal are infiltrated by parasites...

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The Pit and the Pendulum

as Elizabeth Barnard Medina
Released: 1961-08-12

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances...

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Houseboat

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1958-11-19

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

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Black Sunday

as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
Released: 1960-08-11

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and...

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For Love and Gold

as Teodora
Released: 1966-04-07

A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in...

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Lost River

as Belladonna
Released: 2015-04-08

Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones,...

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Castle of Blood

as Elisabeth Blackwood
Released: 1964-02-27

When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle,...

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The Butterfly Room

as Ann
Released: 2012-08-04

A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a...

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

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-08-24

The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a...

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Nightmare Castle

as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Released: 1965-08-20

A sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their...

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Curse of the Crimson Altar

as Lavinia Morley
Released: 1968-12-01

When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last...

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Young Törless

as Bozena
Released: 1966-05-20

At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the...

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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

as Cynthia Hichcock
Released: 1962-08-01

The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral...

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The She Beast

as Veronica
Released: 1966-05-02

A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the...

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Caged Heat

as Supt. McQueen
Released: 1974-04-19

A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a...

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The American Nightmare

as Self
Released: 2000-09-11

An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they...

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The Long Hair of Death

as Helen Rochefort / Mary
Released: 1964-12-30

In a 15th century village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful...

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Sapphire

as Student
Released: 1959-11-02

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been...

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Silent Scream

as Victoria Engels
Released: 1979-11-23

Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding....

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Upstairs and Downstairs

as Mary
Released: 1959-11-02

On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in...

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An Angel for Satan

as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
Released: 1966-05-04

At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is...

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The Monocle's Sour Laugh

as Valérie Gasparelli
Released: 1964-09-16

A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear...

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The 39 Steps

as Extra
Released: 1959-03-13

In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after...

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The Boneyard Collection

as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
Released: 2008-01-01

A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The...

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Minutes Past Midnight

as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
Released: 2016-10-18

As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. Demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts...

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Terror-Creatures from the Grave

as Cleo Hauff
Released: 1965-06-23

An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's...

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The Maniacs

as Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
Released: 1964-03-28

An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures...

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A Sentimental Attempt

as Silvia
Released: 1963-10-04

Carla and Dino, both in a matrimonail crisis, fall in love. But life will not help this love story.

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The Ghost

as Margaret Hichcock
Released: 1963-03-30

A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start...

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Be Pretty and Shut Up!

as Self
Released: 1981-03-04

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny...

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The Hours of Love

as Leila
Released: 1963-03-01

In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in...

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Fellinopolis

as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Released: 2021-06-10

Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant...

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Italian Kings Of B

as Self
Released: 2003-01-01

Documentary on Italian genre cinema.

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Bachelor of Hearts

as Fiona
Released: 1958-12-12

A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.

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White Voices

as Guilia
Released: 1964-08-12

In 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a...

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The Capitol Conspiracy

as Agent Oakley
Released: 1998-03-01

Martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is...

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Master of Dark Shadows

as Self
Released: 2019-04-16

Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a...

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Fear in the Dark

as Self
Released: 1991-10-29

A short documentary on the history of the horror film narrated by Christopher Lee.

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Ciao, Federico!

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1970-10-28

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."

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The Key Is in the Door

as Cathy
Released: 1978-12-13

Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced...

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Hollywood Rated 'R'

as Self
Released: 1997-06-19

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger...

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The Mill at Calder's End

as The Apparition of the Mill
Released: 2015-03-22

In the remote village of Calder's End stands an old windmill, a repository of dark secrets....

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Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

as Self
Released: 2014-10-13

"Parasite Memories" is a brand new retrospective piece on the film produced by High Rising...

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Easy Love

as Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Released: 1964-10-03

Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a...

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Les baisers

as Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
Released: 1964-05-14

A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors...

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The Shutterbug Man

as Narrator
Released: 2014-12-17

The Shutterbug Man tells the tale of a very twisted man, whose only passion in life is taking...

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The Heart of a Man

as Girl
Released: 1959-08-06

Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a...

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

as Self
Released: 2013-10-01

Documentary on the making and impact of "House of Wax".

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

as Danielle
Released: 1970-10-08

Young protesters live together in a commune in Milano. One has a ventriloquist ability and is...

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The Iron Captain

as Floriana
Released: 1962-10-26

After his village is burned down, Captain Furio sets out for revenge.

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Deep Above

as Mrs. Wagner
Released: 1994-01-01

In the 16th century, young men put themselves in great danger to look for mysterious crystals in...

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Mario Bava: Operazione paura

as Self
Released: 2004-04-30

Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror,...

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Three for a Robbery

as Barbara Sims
Released: 1964-08-01

Gerhard 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 Self
Released: 2014-05-19

Filmed exclusively for Arrow Video in 2013, this documentary looks at the making of The Pit and...

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Honeymoon with a Stranger

as Carla
Released: 1969-12-23

While on honeymoon with her husband in Spain, a woman wakes up one morning to find he has...

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The Phantom

as The Widow
Released: 2016-10-14

An enigmatic stranger, a couple who no longer exist, danger in the shadows and the key to it all...

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Your Money or Your Wife

as Juliet Frost
Released: 1960-03-01

Newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when...

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Once Upon a Tractor

as Lady Clerk
Released: 1965-09-09

Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries...

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Barbara and Her Furs

as Self
Released: 1967-01-01

Short film for the french TV program "Dim Dam Dom". A love letter to Barbara Steele and...

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Castlevania

as Miranda (voice)
First aired: 2017-07-07

A dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan,...

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Night Gallery

as The Widow Craighill
First aired: 1970-12-16

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...

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Adventures in Paradise

as Dolores
First aired: 1959-10-05

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...

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Celebrity Ghost Stories

as Self
First aired: 2009-10-03

Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Phyllis
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Dim Dam Dom

as Self
First aired: 1965-03-07

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War and Remembrance

as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)
First aired: 1988-11-13

War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman...

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Dark Shadows

as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres
First aired: 1991-01-13

Dark Shadows is a primetime television series which aired on NBC from January to March 1991. A...

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A History of Horror

as Self
First aired: 2010-10-11

Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's...

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