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Barbara Steele
Known for: ActingBarbara 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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War and Remembrance
Producer 
Pretty Baby
+2
as Josephine 
8½
+1
as Gloria Morin 
Piranha
+8
as Dr. Mengers 
A History of Horror
as Self 
Lost River
as Belladonna 
Black Sunday
+4
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda 
Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueen 
Shivers
as Betts 
The Pit and the Pendulum
+2
as Elizabeth Barnard Medina 
The Ghost
+1
as Margaret Hichcock 
For Love and Gold
as Teodora 
Curse of the Crimson Altar
+4
as Lavinia Morley 
Sapphire
+1
as Student (uncredited) 
The 39 Steps
+1
as Extra (uncredited) 
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self 
Silent Scream
+6
as Victoria Engels 
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Cynthia Hichcock 
Nightmare Castle
+6
as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith 
The Butterfly Room
as Ann 
Young Törless
as Bozena 
The She Beast
+1
as Veronica 
The Long Hair of Death
as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein 
The Capitol Conspiracy
as Agent Oakley 
Castle of Blood
+1
as Elisabeth Blackwood 
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
as Cleo Hauff 
An Angel for Satan
+3
as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda 
Master of Dark Shadows
+2
as Self 
Minutes Past Midnight
+2
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End') 
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
as Valérie Gasparelli