FrameThrower · Actors · Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele
6 films · 376 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–2014
Born 29 December 1937 · Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Barbara Steele 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 376 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–2014
- Time Machine Award2012
How their films are shot
Measured across 376 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barbara takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Barbara takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 376 frames from Barbara Steele's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.