Biography
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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Filmography
Cast Credits
Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
Character: (Voice)
MOVIE • 2025
Ulalume - A Ballad
Character: Narrator: opening credits (voice)
MOVIE • 2023
Fellinopolis
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2021
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Character: Sé stessa
MOVIE • 2019
Master of Dark Shadows
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2019
Castlevania
Character: Miranda (voice)
TV • 2017
Minutes Past Midnight
Character: The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
MOVIE • 2016
The Phantom
Character: The Widow
MOVIE • 2016
Lost River
Character: Belladonna
MOVIE • 2015
The Mill at Calder's End
Character: The Apparition of the Mill
MOVIE • 2015
The Shutterbug Man
Character: Narrator
MOVIE • 2014
Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2014
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2014
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2013
The Butterfly Room
Character: Ann
MOVIE • 2012
A History of Horror
Character: Self
TV • 2010
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Character: Self
TV • 2009
Barbara Steele in Conversation
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2009
The Boneyard Collection
Character: Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
MOVIE • 2008
Crew
