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Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1932-02-13
Day of Death
2021-01-03
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Barbara Shelley
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.
Filmography (40)
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
2009
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
2008
The World of Hammer: Vamp
1994
The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
1992
Maigret
1988
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
The Dark Angel
1987
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984
The Comedy of Errors
1978
Ghost Story
1974A Marriage
1972
The Spy Killer
1969
Quatermass and the Pit
1967
