Barbara Shelley

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Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley in trailer to "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" (1966)
Born	Barbara T. Kowin^[1] (1932-02-13) 13 February 1932 Marylebone, London, England
Other names	Barbara Kowin also known as "The First Leading Lady of British Horror"
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1953-1992

Barbara Shelley (born 13 February 1932) is an English film and television actress.

She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in the aforementioned Dracula film) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer.

She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960), the very first Danger Man episode 'View From A Villa' (1960), Blake's 7 episode 'Stardrive' (1981), and in the Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire (1984).

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.^[2]^[3]

Selected filmography

Totò, Peppino and the outlaws (1956)
Cat Girl (1957)
The End of the Line (1957)
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Bobbikins (1959)
Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Postman's Knock (1962)
Blind Corner (1963)
The Secret of Blood Island (1964)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967); US title "Five Million Years to Earth" (1968)

References

↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
↑ Clarke, Donald. "Mark Gatiss’s History of Horror". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
↑ "A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss – Home Counties Horror Ep 2/3". BBC. 18 October 2010.

External links

Barbara Shelley at the Internet Movie Database
Barbara Shelley at HorrorStars

v t e Hammer Film Productions crew

Producers	Michael Carreras Anthony Hinds (and writer) William Hinds (founder)

Directors	Roy Ward Baker Michael Carreras Terence Fisher Freddie Francis John Gilling Seth Holt Jimmy Sangster (and writer) Peter Sasdy Don Sharp

Cinematographers	Jack Asher Michael Reed Arthur Grant

Composers	Don Banks James Bernard Philip Martell

Other	Roy Ashton (make-up artist) Phil Leakey (makeup artist) Eddie Powell (stuntman) Bernard Robinson (designer)

Persondata
Name	Shelley, Barbara
Alternative names
Short description	British actor
Date of birth	13 February 1932
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death
Place of death

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