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Barbara Steele

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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 had supporting roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975), Joe Dante's Piranha and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (both 1978), and appeared on television in the 1991 TV series Dark Shadows. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for producing the American television miniseries War and Remembrance (1988–89). Steele appeared in several films in the 2010s, including a lead role in The Butterfly Room (2012) and supporting role in Ryan Gosling's Lost River (2014). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Films Featuring Barbara Steele

8½

19638.1

Hollywood Rated 'R'

19975.3

Piranha

19786.0

The 39 Steps

19596.3

Pretty Baby

19787.0

Black Sunday

19607.4

Shivers

19756.4

Curse of the Crimson Altar

19685.2

Silent Scream

19795.7

The Capitol Conspiracy

19984.5

Castle of Blood

19647.1

The Ghost

19636.3

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

19625.9

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

19655.9

Sapphire

19597.0

Young Törless

19666.6

Caged Heat

19745.1

The Key Is in the Door

19784.7

The Monocle's Sour Laugh

19645.4

The Long Hair of Death

19646.3

The American Nightmare

20006.8

The Butterfly Room

20125.7

The She Beast

19665.0

Houseboat

19586.4

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

20146.7

Bachelor of Hearts

19585.9

Upstairs and Downstairs

19595.8

A Sentimental Attempt

19636.8

Honeymoon with a Stranger

19697.0

The Hours of Love

19635.0

Behind the Swinging Blade

2014

Fellinopolis

20216.2

The Heart of a Man

19597.0

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

19816.1

White Voices

19644.8

Easy Love

19645.0

The Shutterbug Man

20146.3

The Mill at Calder's End

20156.5

Lost River

20155.7

Your Money or Your Wife

19604.5

Les baisers

19645.5

The Space-Watch Murders

The Space-Watch Murders

19788.0

Ulalume - A Ballad

Ulalume - A Ballad

2023

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

19707.8

Fear in the Dark

19919.0

Money

Money

19658.0

The Iron Captain

19627.0

Deep Above

199410.0

Minutes Past Midnight

20164.8

Once Upon a Tractor

19656.0

Barbara and Her Furs

1967

Three for a Robbery

196410.0

Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'

20145.5

The Pit and the Pendulum

19616.9

For Love and Gold

19667.7

Master of Dark Shadows

20199.1

Barbara Steele in Conversation

2009

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

2013

An Angel for Satan

19666.3

Nightmare Castle

19655.3

The Boneyard Collection

20085.3

The Maniacs

19645.0

Ciao, Federico!

19707.2

The Phantom

20166.3

Italian Kings Of B

20036.0

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

20046.5

Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta

20197.3

Mario Bava Speaks

Mario Bava Speaks

2006

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol

2025

Look at Life: Saving Face

Look at Life: Saving Face

1959

Vampire Cult Queens from Hell

1996

Dracula in the Movies

199210.0