Barbara Steele
Birthday: 1937-12-29
Place of Birth: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography: 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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8½
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Hollywood Rated 'R'
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Piranha
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The 39 Steps
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Pretty Baby
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Black Sunday
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Shivers
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Curse of the Crimson Altar
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Silent Scream
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The Capitol Conspiracy
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Castle of Blood
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The Ghost
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave
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Sapphire
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Young Törless
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Caged Heat
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The Key Is in the Door
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The Monocle's Sour Laugh
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The Long Hair of Death
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The American Nightmare
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The Butterfly Room
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The She Beast
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Houseboat
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children....
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
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A Sentimental Attempt
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Honeymoon with a Stranger
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The Hours of Love
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Behind the Swinging Blade
Filmed exclusively for Arrow Video in 2013, this documentary looks at the making of The Pit and the ...
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Fellinopolis
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The Heart of a Man
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Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The documentary explores the enigma of actress and artist Mary Woronov and chronicles her colorful c...
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, ...
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White Voices
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Easy Love
Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarde...
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The Shutterbug Man
The Shutterbug Man tells the tale of a very twisted man, whose only passion in life is taking pictur...
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The Mill at Calder's End
In the remote village of Calder's End stands an old windmill, a repository of dark secrets. Nicholas...
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Lost River
Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discov...
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Your Money or Your Wife
Newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their...
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Les baisers
A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors wit...
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The Space-Watch Murders
A spaceship lands safely on a distant planet but all on-board have been slain except for one female ...
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Ulalume - A Ballad
Dreamlike animation brings Poe’s unforgettable poem to life, with desolate, macabre, and volcanic im...
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Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!
Young protesters live together in a commune in Milano. One has a ventriloquist ability and is signed...
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Fear in the Dark
A short documentary on the history of the horror film narrated by Christopher Lee....
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Money
On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this fi...
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The Iron Captain
After his village is burned down, Captain Furio sets out for revenge....
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Deep Above
In the 16th century, young men put themselves in great danger to look for mysterious crystals in a t...
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Minutes Past Midnight
As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. Demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and mo...
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Once Upon a Tractor
Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NY...
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Barbara and Her Furs
Short film for the french TV program "Dim Dam Dom". A love letter to Barbara Steele and Sacher-Masoc...
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Three for a Robbery
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In ...
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Parasite Memories: The Making of 'Shivers'
"Parasite Memories" is a brand new retrospective piece on the film produced by High Rising Productio...
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The Pit and the Pendulum
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of h...
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For Love and Gold
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apuli...
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Master of Dark Shadows
Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a compelling ...
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Barbara Steele in Conversation
A documentary revolving around an extended interview with Barbara Steele, in which she recounts the ...
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House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Documentary on the making and impact of "House of Wax"....
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An Angel for Satan
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. So...
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Nightmare Castle
A sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their hearts f...
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The Boneyard Collection
A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first on...
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The Maniacs
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of It...
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Ciao, Federico!
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."...
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The Phantom
An enigmatic stranger, a couple who no longer exist, danger in the shadows and the key to it all - T...
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the it...
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Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol
In 1897, when Bram Stoker published Dracula, Oscar Méténier invented the Grand-Guignol. Live depicti...
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