Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
29 Dec, 1937 (87 years old)

Barbara Steele

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Steele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Minutes Past Midnight
HD
98 min 2016

Minutes Past Midnight

Horror
The Butterfly Room
HD
87 min 2012

The Butterfly Room

Horror
Young Törless
HD
87 min 1966

Young Törless

Drama
An Angel for Satan
HD
90 min 1966

An Angel for Satan

Horror
Nightmare Castle
HD
105 min 1965

Nightmare Castle

Horror
The Long Hair of Death
HD
96 min 1964

The Long Hair of Death

Horror

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