Barbara Steele

Actress

December 29, 1937 (88 years)

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

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 …

Filmography

7.8

Night Gallery

The Widow Craighill

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.

7.3

Celebrity Ghost Stories

Self

Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.

8.3

Castlevania

Miranda (voice)

A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself.

6.1

Adventures in Paradise

Dolores

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.

7.8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Phyllis

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

7.9

War and Remembrance

Elsa MacMahon

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate the personal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.

7.3

The Winds of War

Mrs. Stoller

Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.

7.0

Pretty Baby

Josephine

In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.

7.8

Dark Shadows

Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres

Governess Victoria Winters' arrival at the great estate of Collinwood in Collinsport, Maine coincides with vampire Barnabas Collins being released from his coffin, Dr. Hoffman's attempt to cure Barnabas' vampirism medically, and, finally, Victoria's time travel back to 1790 to witness the events in which the still-human Barnabas is transformed into an undead creature.

8.1

8½

Gloria Morin

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

8.0

Dim Dam Dom

Self

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6.0

Piranha

Dr. Mengers

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

5.1

Caged Heat

Supt. McQueen

A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.

7.4

Black Sunday

Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

6.9

The Pit and the Pendulum

Elizabeth Barnard Medina

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

6.4

Shivers

Betts

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.

7.1

A History of Horror

Self

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

5.7

Lost River

Belladonna

Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery if their family is to survive.

6.4

Houseboat

Minor Role (uncredited)

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

6.3

The Ghost

Margaret Hichcock

A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.