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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Known For
Pretty Baby
(1978)
Josephine
8½
(1963)
Gloria Morin
Piranha
(1978)
Dr. Mengers
Houseboat
(1958)
Minor Role (uncredited)
Shivers
(1975)
Betts
Lost River
(2015)
Belladonna
Black Sunday
(1960)
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
The Pit and the Pendulum
(1961)
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
For Love and Gold
(1966)
Teodora
The Butterfly Room
(2012)
Ann
The She Beast
(1966)
Veronica
Caged Heat
(1974)
Supt. McQueen
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's “Island of Dr. Moreau”
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
Silent Scream
(1979)
Victoria Engels
Curse of the Crimson Altar
(1968)
Lavinia Morley
Minutes Past Midnight
(2016)
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')