Barbara Shelley
Acting
- Born:
- 1932-02-13
- Died:
- 2021-01-03
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Shelley (born 13 February 1932) was an English film and television actress. She was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in the aforementioned Dracula film) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) and in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire. In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror. She died on 3 January 2021, at the age of 88. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Shelley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The House of Horror - Memories of Bray
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
A History of Horror
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness
British Film Forever
The World of Hammer: Vamp
The World of Hammer
The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
The Stranger
The Dark Angel
Maigret
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
The Dark Angel
EastEnders
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
The District Nurse
By the Sword Divided
Bergerac
The Borgias
Pride and Prejudice
Prince Regent
Blankety Blank
The Comedy of Errors
Tycoon
People Like Us
Blake's 7
Oil Strike North
The Hanged Man
Ghost Story
John Halifax, Gentleman
Crown Court
A Marriage
Justice
The Two Ronnies
Ben Travers Farces
Bachelor Father
Paul Temple
The Spy Killer
Hadleigh
Counterstrike
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Quatermass and the Pit
Man in a Suitcase
Champion House
The Revenue Men
Mr. Rose
Vendetta
Intrigue
Preview Tonight
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
The Troubleshooters
The Secret of Blood Island
The Gorgon
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
12 O'Clock High
Rupert of Hentzau