Barbara Steele
Cunoscut Pentru
Acting
Born
December 29, 1937 (age 88)
Birth Place
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Biografie
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 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.
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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.
Filmografie
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
2025 — (Voice)
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
2025 — Self
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
2025 — actor
Ulalume - A Ballad
2023 — Narrator: opening credits (voice)
Fellinopolis
2021 — Self - Actress (archive footage)
Hangmen, Masques and Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019 — Self
Master of Dark Shadows
2019 — Self
Minutes Past Midnight
2016 — The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Phantom
2016 — The Widow
Lost River
2015 — Belladonna
The Mill at Calder's End
2015 — The Apparition of the Mill
The Shutterbug Man
2014 — Narrator