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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 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.
As actor
Back to Black: The Making of Dracula Prince of Darkness
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
The World of Hammer: Vamp
The Stranger: More Than a Messiah
Maigret
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
The Dark Angel
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
The Comedy of Errors
Ghost Story
A Marriage
The Spy Killer
Quatermass and the Pit
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
The Secret of Blood Island
The Gorgon
Blind Corner
Postman's Knock
Death Trap
Stranglehold
The Shadow of the Cat
Village of the Damned
A Story of David
Bobbikins
Deadly Record
Blood of the Vampire
The Camp on Blood Island
The Solitary Child