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Barbara Shelley

Barbara Shelley

Birthday: 1932-02-13 | Place of Birth: London, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Shelley (born 13 February 1932) was an English film and television actress. She was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in the aforementioned Dracula film) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) and in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire. In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror. She died on 3 January 2021, at the age of 88. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Shelley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
A History of Horror

as    Helen

1981
The Borgias

as    Vannozza Canale

1980
Pride and Prejudice

as    Mrs. Gardiner

1967
Quatermass and the Pit

as    Barbara Judd

1966
Dracula: Prince of Darkness

as    Helen Kent

1966
Rasputin: The Mad Monk

as    Sonia

1965
The Gorgon

as    Carla Hoffman

1964
Blind Corner

as    Anne Gregory

1961
The Shadow of the Cat

as    Beth Venable

1959
Deadly Record

as    Susan Webb

1958
The Camp on Blood Island

as    Kate Keiller

1958
Blood of the Vampire

as    Madeleine Duval

1957
Cat Girl

as    Leonora Johnson / Leonora Brandt