Barbara Shelley
Born February 13, 1932 (Age: 94)
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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.
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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Filmography
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A Marriage
1972
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as Clare
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Age: 40
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966
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as Helen Kent
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Age: 33
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Stranglehold
1962
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as Chris Morrison
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Age: 29
The Shadow of the Cat
1961
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as Beth Venable
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Age: 29
Village of the Damned
1960
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as Anthea Zellaby
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Age: 28
Bobbikins
1959
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as Valerie
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Age: 27
Deadly Record
1959
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as Susan Webb
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Age: 27
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Murder at Site 3
1958
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as Susan
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Age: 25
Supreme Confession
1956
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as Bettina
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Age: 24
Lacrime di sposa
1956
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as Barbara
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Age: 23
Four of the Thundering Jet
1955
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Age: 23
Luna nova
1955
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Age: 23
Tragic ballad
1955
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as
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Age: 22