Biography of Barbara Steele -

Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is a
British actress.
She's best known as the scream queen of Italian
gothic horror movies of the sixties.
Her break through came in Italian director Mario
Bava's Black Sunday (1960). It's now hailed as a
masterpiece of the Italian gothic horror film. 
Steele starred in a string of gothic horror
classics including: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
(1962), The Ghost (1963) (Dir.: Riccardo Freda)
and, according to Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies
(1988), is on record as never wanting "to climb
out of another fucking coffin again".

==Partial Filmography==

1960 La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday)

1961 The Pit and the Pendulum

1962 L'Orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock (The
Horrible Dr. Hichock)

1963 8Â½

1963 Lo Spettro (The Ghost)

1964 Danza macabra (Castle of Blood)

1964 I Lunghi capelli della morte (The Long Hair
of Death)

1974 Caged Heat

1975 Shivers 
       
1978 Piranha

==External Links==

http://home.earthlink.net/~gershom/steele.html The
Unofficial Barbara Steele Film Site

http://www.swinginchicks.com/barbara_steele.htm
Steele's entry on the Swingin' Chicks of the '60s
Web site

http://www.horror-wood.com/cob.htm About the movie
Castle of Blood
http://www.cultsirens.com/steele/steele.htm Cult
Sirens: Barbara Steele

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Biography of Barbara Steele -