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 Horrors 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 costar 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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