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Acting

Barbara Steele

Career: Active from 1959 to 2025, with a break from 1980 to 1993, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 23
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: 8½
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 35 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Barbara Steele Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.8, average 5.4
Wholesome
1.3, average 3.4
Coming of Age
1.5, average 3.0
Social Commentary
3.7, average 4.9

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Psychological Thriller 5
Gothic Horror 5
Historical Setting 4
Supernatural 3
Atmospheric 3
Italian Cinema 3
Witchcraft 2
Revenge 2
Exploitation Film 2
Cult Classic 2
Mystery 2
Grotesque 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

61

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol

as (Voice)

Ulalume - A Ballad

as Narrator: opening credits (voice)

2010s

6 titles · average score 59

Castlevania

82

TV show · as Miranda (voice)

Minutes Past Midnight

43

as The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')

The Mill at Calder's End

69

as The Apparition of the Mill

Lost River

46

as Belladonna

The Shutterbug Man

as Narrator

The Butterfly Room

53

as Ann

2000s

1 title · average score 43

The Boneyard Collection

43

as Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")

1990s

4 titles · average score 53

The Capitol Conspiracy

42

as Agent Oakley

Deep Above

as Mrs. Wagner

Dracula in the Movies

as (archive footage)

Dark Shadows

63

TV show · as Dr. Julia Hoffman / Countess Natalie du Pres / Dr. Julia Hoffman

1980s

2 titles · average score 79

War and Remembrance

80

TV show · as Elsa MacMahon

The Winds of War

78

TV show · as Mrs. Stoller

1970s

9 titles · average score 65

Silent Scream

57

as Victoria Engels

Piranha

64

as Dr. Mengers

The Key Is in the Door

as Cathy

Pretty Baby

64

as Josephine

Shivers

66

as Betts

Caged Heat

53

as Supt. McQueen

Stop the World... I Want to Get Off!

as Danielle

Night Gallery

85

TV show · as The Widow Craighill

Ciao, Federico!

68

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1960s

28 titles · average score 62

The She Beast

48

as Veronica

An Angel for Satan

64

as Harriet Montebruno / Belinda

For Love and Gold

77

as Teodora

Nightmare Castle

50

as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

47

as Cleo Hauff

The Long Hair of Death

53

as Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein

Castle of Blood

68

as Elisabeth Blackwood

89

as Gloria Morin

The Ghost

62

as Margaret Hichcock

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

61

as Cynthia Hichcock

The Pit and the Pendulum

76

as Elizabeth Barnard Medina

Black Sunday

80

as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

1950s

9 titles · average score 67

Upstairs and Downstairs

60

as Mary

Adventures in Paradise

71

TV show · as Dolores

Sapphire

70

as Student (uncredited)

The 39 Steps

64

as Extra (uncredited)

The Heart of a Man

as Girl (scenes deleted)

Houseboat

61

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Bachelor of Hearts

58

as Fiona

Dial 999

TV show · as Toni Miller

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Phyllis