Barbara SteeleFilmography

Born:: December 29, 1938 in Trenton Wirrall, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor, Producer
Biography:: Exotic, voluptuous, nostril-flaring British actress Barbara Steele originally aspired to be a painter. At 20, she was sidetracked into acting, and within a year she made her film bow in a one-line bit as a student in Bachelor of Hearts (1958). Most of her roles were nondescript until she moved to...Read More

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The Boneyard Collection

Actors: Forrest J. Ackerman

Synopsis: A twisted comedy in horror/noir trappings, The Boneyard Collection is a quirky anthology comprised of four short films hosted by Dr. Acula (Forrest J. Ackerman). Things get off to a gruesome start with "Boogie with the Undead," a sinister yarn about an all-girl rock band that's been booked to play Read More

2006
The Capitol Conspiracy

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Paul Michael Robinson

Synopsis: Martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is recruited to take part in a secret government experiment which results in him being able to see into the future. Years later, the child is an adult and is working for the government; his latest assignment is Read More

1998
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 09

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 10

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 07

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 08

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 01

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series [TV Series]

Actors: Ben Cross, Joanna Going

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 11

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 12

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 06

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 03

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 02

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 05

1991
Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 04

1991
War & Remembrance: The Final Chapter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick, Sami Frey, Topol

1989
War & Remembrance

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

1988
The Winds of War

Synopsis: This World War II epic drama, based on the book by Herman Wouk, follows the life and trials of a career naval officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise to power, who witnesses the gradual escalation of the war. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Silent Scream

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber, Barbara Steele, Steve Doubet

Synopsis: When the on-campus accommodations are all taken, a group of college students are forced to take rooms in the spooky house of Mrs. Engels (Yvonne De Carlo) and her strange son, Mason (Brad Reardon). When one of the kids turns up dead, the police launch an investigation, uncovering the bloody Read More

1980
Pretty Baby

Actors: Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut with this disturbing but visually beautiful story about Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a prostitute working in New Orleans' Storyville district at the turn of the century. When Read More

1978
La Clé Sur la Porte

Actors: Annie Girardot, Patrick Dewaere, Eleonore Klarwein, Stephane Jobert, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an Read More

1978
Piranha

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller

Synopsis: The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of Jaws (1977) features several chiller stars of yesteryear. Insurance investigator Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) is dispatched to find two missing teenage hikers near Lost Read More

1978
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza, Lorraine Gary, Martine Bartlett, Darlene Craviotto

Synopsis: Without ever revealing the diagnosis, this film chronicles the inner life and outer circumstances of Deborah Blake (Kathleen Quinlan), a young mental patient. As the film opens, she is being accompanied by her subdued parents to yet another mental hospital. This one looks clean and cheerful, at Read More

1977
Shivers

Actors: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Alan Migicovsky, Lynn Lowry, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: A gripping exercise in body horror and social paranoia, prolific Canadian director David Cronenberg's debut feature offers a startling look at modern isolationist society with a parasitic twist. When a scientist experimenting with a new form of organ transplants kills a young female resident of a Read More

1975
Caged Heat

Actors: Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: Considered the quintessential "girls in prison" flick of the 1970s, novice director Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat is set in a hellish American woman's penitentiary run by vicious, wheelchair-bound Barbara Steele. Statuesque convict Erica Gavin is forced to undergo horrible (but legal) tortures when Read More

1974
Honeymoon with a Stranger

Synopsis: Filmed in Spain, this TV movie stars Janet Leigh as an American woman honeymooning with her new husband. She awakens after the wedding night, only to be confronted with a stranger who insists that he's her husband. Leigh goes to the authorities, who unfortunately believe the ersatz husband's Read More

1969
The Crimson Cult

Actors: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden, Barbara Steele, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this spooky thriller, an evil sorcerer invites an innocent young man and his girl friend to his dark and scary mansion. The two have no idea that the black magician is planning to sacrifice the young man to atone for the evil misdeeds of his ancestors who 200 years ago burned the wizard's Read More

1968
Terror Creatures from the Grave

Synopsis: An unfaithful wife is visited by medieval plague victims, who were summoned from their graves by her occult-expert husband. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Young Torless

Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: Robert Musil's novel Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless was the source for this allegorical German film. Mathieu Carriere plays Torless, a student in a costly boarding school during the glory days of the Hapsburg empire. While at school, Carriere is a bystander to the sadistic behavior of Read More

1966
Un Angelo per Satan

Synopsis: One of the last and most interesting Italian horror productions featuring the alluring Barbara Steele, this obscure feature from Crypt of the Vampire director Camillo Mastrocinque apparently never found distribution in English, and dubbed or subtitled prints are all but nonexistent. Steele's Read More

1966
L'Armata Brancaleone

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè, Folco Lulli, Maria Grazia Buccella

Synopsis: Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman) leads an inept group of Crusaders to the sea in this offbeat war comedy. The Crusaders hope to find a ship that will take them to the Holy Land to reclaim the area for Christianity. The situation allows for plenty of sight gags and ribald humor. Catherine Spaak Read More

1966
Nightmare Castle

Synopsis: Known in U.S. distribution as Nightmare Castle, this eerie Gothic thriller offers two Barbara Steeles for the price of one. Steele first portrays the wife of a deranged scientist (Paul Muller) whose latest experiments involve electro-stimulation of human blood. When the mad doctor discovers his Read More

7/16/65
The She-Beast

Synopsis: In this spooky Italian-Yugoslavian horror movie, a lovely English bride is possessed by the vengeful spirit of an 18th-century Transylvanian witch on her wedding night and creates all sorts of bloody mayhem for her hapless husband and others. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
The Long Hair of Death

Synopsis: In the 15th century, a young woman is accused of being a witch and committing a murder. She is burned at the stake. Years later, during a plague, she is revived by lightning. She returns to her village to prevent her daughter from marrying the man who actually committed the murder for which she Read More

12/30/64
Le Voci Bianche

Actors: Paolo Ferrari, Sandra Milo, Graziella Granata, Anouk Aimée, Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis: "White Voices" is a vernacular term referring to Italian Castrati of the 18th century Vatican Choir. The Castrati were male children who were castrated so that they could retain their beautiful soprano singing voices into maturity. Paolo Ferrari plays a Roman youth who isn't keen on being gelded Read More

8/13/64
Les Baisers

Actors: Marie-France Boyer, Leticia Roman

5/14/64
I Maniaci

Synopsis: A minor comedy from Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2; L'Aldila), this anthology is of interest primarily to cult devotees for marking the notorious director's only collaboration with legendary "scream queen" Barbara Steele (La Maschera del Demonio). Lushly photographed and filled with Read More

3/28/64
Castle of Blood

Actors: Georges Riviere, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: In this eerie and effective early horror film from prolific genre director Antonio Margheriti, Alan Foster (Georges Riviere), an American tourist visiting England, takes a bet from a Lord Blackwood and his guest, Edgar Allan Poe, to spend the night in a haunted mansion. The rationalist Foster, who Read More

1964
Le Ore dell'Amore

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Umberto D'Orsi, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two long-time lovers finally decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately, they find the mundane realities of marriage oppressive. They miss the thrill of courtship, and suddenly all those cute little quirks of theirs have turned into annoying habits. They get a divorce and go Read More

3/1/63
8 1/2

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Read More

2/14/63
The Ghost

Synopsis: The alluring presence of doe-eyed horror icon Barbara Steele enlivens director Riccardo Freda's passable sequel to his own Horrible Dr. Hichcock. Steele returns as Cynthia, the troubled widow of a sadistic murderer and necrophiliac, who had once conspired with her lover to murder her husband Read More

1963
Un Tentattivo Sentimentale

Actors: Françoise Prevost, Jean-Marc Bory, Leticia Roman, Gabriele Ferzetti, Barbara Steele

1963
L'Orribile Segreto del Dottor Hitchcock

Actors: Robert Flemyng, Barbara Steele

1962
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Beta Delta Gamma

Synopsis: During a drinking contest, college fraternity members Alan (Burt Brinckerhoff) and Mark (Duke Howard) pass out cold. The duo's frat brothers decide to play a cruel prank on the snoozing Alan, making it appear that Mark has died and that Alan has killed him. The joke backfires when the panicky Alan Read More

1961
Pit and the Pendulum

Actors: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Anthony Carbone

Synopsis: American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum. Save for the climax, Richard Matheson's script bears but little resemblance to the Edgar Allen Poe original, though there are pronounced echoes throughout of Poe's The Read More

1961
Black Sunday

Actors: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani, Andrea Checchi, Arturo Dominici

Synopsis: Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who is gruesomely executed Read More

8/11/60
La Dolce Vita

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker

Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More

2/3/60
Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

1960
Your Money or Your Wife

Actors: Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins, Richard Wattis, Peter Reynolds, Georgina Cookson

Synopsis: Donald Sinden and Peggy Cummins co-star as Pelham and Gay Butterworth in this routine comedy about a married couple whose hopes of acquiring an instantaneous fortune are suddenly dashed. When Gay finds out she is going to get a huge inheritance, the young couple go on a spending spree. Just a tad Read More

1960
Bachelor of Hearts

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Jeremy Burnham, Miles Malleson, Peter Myers, Eric Barker

Synopsis: Bachelor of Hearts stars Hardy Kruger as Wolf, a German exchange student attending Cambridge University. Initially arousing the distrust and disdain of his classmates (WWII was, after all, only thirteen years in the past), the affable Wolf slowly wins them over. He also finds romance in the lovely Read More

1958

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