After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) now hailed as a classic. She guest starred on various British television shows including the spy drama Danger Man starring Patrick McGoohan. Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is an English film actress.

She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. She made her American television debut in 1960 as Dolores in "Daughter of Illusion" of the ABC series Adventures in Paradise starring Gardner McKay. Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is an English film actress.