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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
Piranha
Aštuoni su puse
as Gloria Morin
A History of Horror
as Self
Lost River
Shivers
Drugelių Kambarys
Caged Heat
as Supt. McQueen
Šėtono kaukė
as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Ghost
Brankaleonės armija
as Teodora
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Sapphire
as Student (uncredited)
The 39 Steps
as Extra (uncredited)
Young Törless
as Bozena
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
Nightmare Castle
Silent Scream
Master of Dark Shadows
as Self
The She Beast
as Veronica
The Capitol Conspiracy
as Agent Oakley
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Cynthia Hichcock
Kraujo pilis
The Long Hair of Death
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
as Cleo Hauff
An Angel for Satan
as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
Minutes Past Midnight
as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
as Valérie Gasparelli