Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele
Born	December 29, 1937 (age 74); Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1958 - present
Spouse	James Poe (1969 - 1978; divorced); 1 child

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Barbara Steele (born December 29, 1937, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England) is an English film actress. She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), now hailed as a classic.^[1]

Steele starred in a string of horror films, including The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Ghost, directed by Riccardo Freda and Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Pit and the Pendulum. She guested on various British television shows including the spy drama Danger Man starring Patrick McGoohan. In 2010, she was a guest star in the Dark Shadows audio drama The Night Whispers.

In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday (1960) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.^[2]^[3]

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R.H.W. Dillard entitled his first collection of poems The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele (1966).

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Name	Steele, Barbara
Alternative names
Short description	Actress
Date of birth	December 29, 1937
Place of birth	Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK
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Barbara Steele
Born	December 29, 1937 (1937-12-29) (age 74) Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1958 - present
Spouse	James Poe (1969 - 1978; divorced); 1 child