Barbara Shelley
Biography
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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 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.
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Filmography
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
2012
as Self - Original Cast Member / Helen Kent
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
2009
as Herself
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
2008
as Self
The World of Hammer: Vamp
1994
as Helen Kent
The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
1992
as Charlotte Darton
Maigret
1988
as Louise Maigret
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as Helen Kent / Sonia (archive footage)
The Dark Angel
1987
as Cousin Monica
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984
as Sorasta
The Comedy of Errors
1978
as Courtesan
Ghost Story
1974
as Matron
- No poster
A Marriage
1972
as Clare
The Spy Killer
1969
as Danielle
Quatermass and the Pit
1967
as Barbara Judd
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as Sonia
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
1966
as Helen Kent
The Secret of Blood Island
1964
as Elaine
The Gorgon
1964
as Carla Hoffman
Blind Corner
1964
as Anne Gregory
Death Trap
1962
as Jean Anscomb
Postman's Knock
1962
as Jean
- No poster
Stranglehold
1962
as Chris Morrison
The Shadow of the Cat
1961
as Beth Venable
A Story of David
1960
as Abigail