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Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele

Known For Acting
Birthday Dec 29, 1937 (87)
Birthplace Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Popularity 0.3 (history)
Updated Aug 31, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 i ... n 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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Minutes Past Midnight

Minutes Past Midnight

2016

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

The Phantom

The Phantom

2016

as The Widow

The Mill at Calder's End

The Mill at Calder's End

2015

as The Apparition of the Mill

Lost River

Lost River

2015

as Belladonna

The Shutterbug Man

The Shutterbug Man

2014

as Narrator

The Butterfly Room

The Butterfly Room

2012

as Ann

The Boneyard Collection

The Boneyard Collection

2008

as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

The Capitol Conspiracy

The Capitol Conspiracy

1998

as Agent Oakley

Silent Scream

Silent Scream

1979

as Victoria Engels

Piranha

Piranha

1978

as Dr. Mengers

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby

1978

as Josephine

Shivers

Shivers

1975

as Betts

Caged Heat

Caged Heat

1974

as Supt. McQueen

Ciao, Federico!

Ciao, Federico!

1970

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Curse of the Crimson Altar

Curse of the Crimson Altar

1968

as Lavinia Morley

The She Beast

The She Beast

1966

as Veronica

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

1965

as Cleo Hauff

Once Upon a Tractor

Once Upon a Tractor

1965

as Lady Clerk

The Long Hair of Death

The Long Hair of Death

1964

as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein

8½

1963

as Gloria Morin

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961

as Elizabeth Barnard Medina

Your Money or Your Wife

Your Money or Your Wife

1960

as Juliet Frost

Sapphire

Sapphire

1959

as Student

The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps

1959

as Extra

The Heart of a Man

The Heart of a Man

1959

as Girl

Bachelor of Hearts

Bachelor of Hearts

1958

as Fiona

Houseboat

Houseboat

1958

as Minor Role (uncredited)

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Venice Film Festival Best Supporting Actress The Brood Nominated
Television Credits

Dark Shadows

as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Jan 13, 1991

Castlevania

as Miranda (voice)

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Jul 07, 2017

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Phyllis

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 02, 1955

Adventures in Paradise

as Dolores

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 05, 1959

War and Remembrance

as Elsa MacMahon (Singapore Christmas Party)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 13, 1988

Night Gallery

as The Widow Craighill

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 16, 1970

A History of Horror

as Self

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Oct 11, 2010

Celebrity Ghost Stories

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 03, 2009

Dim Dam Dom

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 07, 1965

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