Barbara Steele
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Barbara Steele (born December 19, 1937 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK) is an English film actress. She is best known as the scream queen of Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), now hailed as a masterpiece of the Italian gothic horror genre.[1] 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." According to Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies, she is on record as saying that she never wanted "to climb out of another fucking coffin again".
R. H. W. Dillard entitled his first collection of poems The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele (1966)
[edit] Partial filmography
- Black Sunday (1960)
- The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
- L'Orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock) (1962)
- 8½ (1963)
- Lo Spettro (The Ghost) (1963)
- Danza macabra (Castle of Blood) (1964)
- I Lunghi capelli della morte (The Long Hair of Death) (1964)
- Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
- Nightmare Castle (1965)
- the She Beast (1966)
- Young Törless (1966)
- Caged Heat (1974)
- Shivers (1975)
- Piranha (1978)
- Silent Scream (1980)
- Dark Shadows (TV series revival) (1991)
- Fellini Ungrateful Celebration (2005)
