Barbara Shelley
Birthday: 1932-02-13 | Place of Birth: London, England, UKFrom 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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Acting
Role
as Helen
as Helen Kent
as Charlotte Darton
as Cousin Monica
as Louise Maigret
as Cousin Monica
as Sorasta
as Vannozza Canale
as Vannozza Canale
as Mrs. Gardiner
as Matron
as Clare
as Danielle
as Barbara Judd
as Helen Kent
as Sonia
as Carla Hoffman
as Anne Gregory
as Jean
as Beth Venable
as Anthea Zellaby
as Susan Webb
as Valerie
as Kate Keiller
as Madeleine Duval
