Barbara Steele
- Recitazione
- 29 dicembre 1937 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol · Voce
- Ulalume - A Ballad · Narrator: opening credits (Voce)
- Fellinopolis · In persona
- Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta · In persona
- Master of Dark Shadows · In persona
- Castlevania · Miranda (Voce)
- Minutes Past Midnight · The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
- Lost River · Belladonna
- The Mill at Calder's End · The Apparition of the Mill
- The Shutterbug Man · Narrator
- Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers' · In persona
- Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau · In persona
- Behind the Swinging Blade · In persona
- House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! · In persona
- The Butterfly Room - La stanza delle farfalle · Ann
- A History of Horror · In persona
- Celebrity Ghost Stories · In persona
- Barbara Steele in Conversation · In persona
- The Boneyard Collection · Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
- Mario Bava Speaks · In persona
- Mario Bava: Operazione paura · In persona
- Italian Kings Of B · In persona
- The American Nightmare · In persona
- The Capitol Conspiracy · Agent Oakley
- Les deniers du culte · In persona
- Vampire Cult Queens from Hell · In persona
- Tief oben · Mrs. Wagner
- Dracula in the Movies · (archive footage)
- Fear in the Dark · In persona
- Dark Shadows · Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres, Dr. Julia Hoffman
- War and Remembrance · Elsa MacMahon, Produzione
- Venti di Guerra - The Winds of War · Mrs. Stoller, Associate Producer
- Be Pretty and Shut Up! · In persona
- Silent Scream · Victoria Engels
- La chiave nella porta · Cathy
- Piraña · Dr. Mengers
- Pretty Baby · Josephine
- The Space-Watch Murders
- Il demone sotto la pelle · Betts
- Femmine in gabbia · Supt. McQueen
- Mistero in galleria · The Widow Craighill
- Ciao, Federico! · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Fermate il mondo... voglio scendere! · Danielle
- Honeymoon with a Stranger · Carla
- Black Horror - Le messe nere · Lavinia Morley
- Barbara et ses fourrures · In persona
- Il lago di Satana · Veronica
- I turbamenti del giovane Torless · Bozena
- Un angelo per Satana · Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
- L'armata Brancaleone · Teodora
- I soldi · Lucky
- Le spie · Giana
- Once Upon a Tractor · Lady Clerk
- Amanti d'oltretomba · Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
- 5 tombe per un medium · Cleo Hauff
- Dim Dam Dom · In persona
- I lunghi capelli della morte · Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
- Amore facile · Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
- Le monocle rit jaune · Valérie Gasparelli
- Le voci bianche · Guilia
- Tre per una rapina · Barbara Sims
- Les baisers · Thelma (Episode 3: 'Baiser du soir')
- I maniaci · Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
- Danza macabra · Elisabeth Blackwood
- Un tentativo sentimentale · Silvia
- Lo spettro · Margaret Hichcock
- Le ore dell'amore · Leila
- 8½ · Gloria Morin
- Il capitano di ferro · Floriana
- L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock · Cynthia Hichcock
- Il pozzo e il pendolo · Elizabeth Barnard Medina
- La maschera del demonio · Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
- Your Money or Your Wife · Juliet Frost
- Zaffiro nero · Student (uncredited)
- Su e giù per le scale · Mary
- Avventure in paradiso · Dolores
- The Heart of a Man · Girl (scenes deleted)
- I 39 scalini · Extra (uncredited)
- Look at Life: Saving Face · In persona
- Bachelor of Hearts · Fiona