Barbara Steele
Birthday: 1937-12-29 | Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UKBarbara 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
as Belladonna
as The Apparition of the Mill
as Narrator
as Ann
as Self
as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
as Agent Oakley
as Victoria Engels
as Dr. Mengers
as Josephine
as Betts
as Supt. McQueen
as Lavinia Morley
as Cleo Hauff
as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
as Veronica
as Elisabeth Blackwood
as Helen Rochefort / Mary
as Gloria Morin
as Margaret Hichcock
as Cynthia Hichcock
as Floriana
as Elizabeth Barnard Medina
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
as Extra
as Student
