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Barbara Shelley
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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 Shell…
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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.
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Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
as Self - Original Cast Member / Helen Kent
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
as Herself
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
as Self
The World of Hammer: Vamp
as Helen Kent
The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
as Charlotte Darton
Maigret
as Louise Maigret
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Helen Kent / Sonia (archive footage)
The Dark Angel
as Cousin Monica
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
as Sorasta
The Comedy of Errors
as Courtesan
Ghost Story
as Matron
No Poster
A Marriage
as Clare
The Spy Killer
as Danielle
Quatermass and the Pit
as Barbara Judd
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
as Sonia
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
as Helen Kent
The Secret of Blood Island
as Elaine
The Gorgon
as Carla Hoffman
Blind Corner
as Anne Gregory
Death Trap
as Jean Anscomb
Postman's Knock
as Jean
No Poster
Stranglehold
as Chris Morrison
The Shadow of the Cat
as Beth Venable
A Story of David
as Abigail
Village of the Damned
as Anthea Zellaby
Bobbikins
as Valerie
Deadly Record
as Susan Webb
The Solitary Child
as Harriet
Blood of the Vampire
as Madeleine Duval
The Camp on Blood Island
as Kate Keiller
No Poster
Murder at Site 3
as Susan
The End of the Line
as Liliane Crawford
Cat Girl
as Leonora Johnson / Leonora Brandt
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
as Baronessa
Supreme Confession
as Bettina
Nero's Mistress
as A Guest at the Villa
Lacrime di sposa
as Barbara
Four of the Thundering Jet
Destinazione Piovarolo
Luna nova
as Amira
Motivo in maschera
Tragic ballad
as Betty Mason
Mantrap
as Fashion show commentator