Barbara Steele
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1937-12-29
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Barbara Steele
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 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.
Also Known For
8½
Feb 14, 1963
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Jun 19, 1997
Piranha
Aug 03, 1978
The 39 Steps
Mar 13, 1959
Pretty Baby
Apr 05, 1978
Black Sunday
Aug 11, 1960
Shivers
May 16, 1975
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Dec 01, 1968
Silent Scream
Nov 23, 1979
The Capitol Conspiracy
Mar 01, 1998
Castle of Blood
Feb 27, 1964
The Ghost
Mar 30, 1963
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Aug 01, 1962
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Jun 23, 1965
Sapphire
Nov 02, 1959
Young Törless
May 20, 1966
Caged Heat
Apr 19, 1974
The Key Is in the Door
Dec 13, 1978
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Sep 16, 1964
The Long Hair of Death
Dec 30, 1964
The American Nightmare
Sep 11, 2000
The Butterfly Room
Aug 04, 2012
Revenge of The Blood Beast
May 02, 1966
Houseboat
Nov 19, 1958
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Aug 24, 2014
Bachelor of Hearts
Dec 12, 1958
Upstairs and Downstairs
Nov 02, 1959
A Sentimental Attempt
Oct 04, 1963
Honeymoon with a Stranger
Dec 23, 1969
The Hours of Love
Mar 01, 1963
Behind the Swinging Blade
May 19, 2014
Fellinopolis
Jun 10, 2021
The Heart of a Man
Aug 06, 1959
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
Mar 04, 1981
White Voices
Aug 12, 1964
Easy Love
Oct 03, 1964
The Shutterbug Man
Dec 17, 2014
The Mill at Calder's End
Mar 22, 2015
Lost River
Apr 08, 2015
Your Money or Your Wife
Mar 01, 1960
Les baisers
May 14, 1964
The Space-Watch Murders
Jan 04, 1978
Ulalume - A Ballad
Jan 20, 2023
Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Oct 08, 1970
Minutes Past Midnight
Oct 18, 2016
The Iron Captain
Oct 26, 1962
Fear in the Dark
Oct 29, 1991
Money
Nov 25, 1965
Deep Above
Jan 01, 1994
Once Upon a Tractor
Sep 09, 1965
Barbara and Her Furs
Jan 01, 1967
Three for a Robbery
Aug 01, 1964
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Oct 13, 2014
The Pit and the Pendulum
Aug 23, 1961
For Love and Gold
Apr 07, 1966
Master of Dark Shadows
Apr 16, 2019
Barbara Steele in Conversation
May 19, 2009
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Oct 01, 2013
Nightmare Castle
Aug 20, 1965
An Angel for Satan
May 04, 1966
The Boneyard Collection
Jan 01, 2008
The Maniacs
Mar 28, 1964
Ciao, Federico!
Oct 28, 1970
The Phantom
Oct 14, 2016
Italian Kings Of B
Jan 01, 2003
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Apr 30, 2004
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Sep 05, 2019
Mario Bava Speaks
Nov 16, 2006
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
Nov 20, 2025
Look at Life: Saving Face
Jan 01, 1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Oct 02, 1955
Castlevania
Jul 07, 2017
Adventures in Paradise
Oct 05, 1959
Dark Shadows
Jan 13, 1991
War and Remembrance
Nov 13, 1988
Night Gallery
Dec 16, 1970
A History of Horror
Oct 11, 2010
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Oct 03, 2009
