Barbara Shelley

Barbara Shelley played Sorasta in the Doctor Who television story Planet of Fire.

Shelley was Hammer Horror's leading female star in the 1950's and 60's appearing in horror films Blood of the Vampire, The Gorgon, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Rasputin, the Mad Monk and Quartermass and the Pit. From the 1950's to the 1980's she also appeared in television shows including Danger Man, The Avengers, Blake's 7, H. G. Wells' Invisible Man, The Saint, No Hiding Place, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Paul Temple, Mogul, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Bergerac and Eastenders.

In the DWU

 * She appeared in a film about Gorgons with Christopher Lee. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon)