Shirley Anne Field

Shirley Anne Field

Shirley Anne Field (born Shirley Broomfield; June 27, 1938 - December 10, 2023) was an English actress who performed on stage, film and television since 1955, prominent during the British New Wave. After a course at the Lucie Clayton School and Model Agency, she became a photographic model for pin-up magazines like Reveille and Titbits. She was subsequently spotted by Bill Watts, who ran a theatrical agency and obtained for her roles in late 1950s British films, usually uncredited. Her first appearance in a film was as an extra in Simon and Laura (1955). She had small parts in All for Mary (1955), Lost (1956), Yield to the Night (1956) (directed by J. Lee Thompson), It's Never Too Late (1956), It's a Wonderful World (1956), The Weapon (1956), Loser Takes All (1956), The Silken Affair (1956), Dry Rot (1956), The Good Companions (1957) (again for Thompson), Seven Thunders (1957), and The Flesh Is Weak (1957). She was in episodes of The New Adventures of Martin Kane (1957) and International Detective. Field's first sizeable film role was in Horrors of the Black Museum (1959). She had minor parts in Once More, with Feeling! (1960) and And the Same to You (1960). Field had a larger role in the controversial Peeping Tom (1960). She appeared on stage in The Lily White Boys with Albert Finney. In 1960, Field's breakthrough came when she was chosen by Tony Richardson to play the role of model Tina Lapford in The Entertainer (1960), starring Laurence Olivier, distributed by Bryanston Films. Field had a supporting role in Beat Girl (1960), then appeared in probably her best known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney), in the New Wave film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). Field starred alongside Kenneth More in Man in the Moon (1960). With those three big film starring roles in 1960, she became one of the very few actors ever to have their name above the titles in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square simultaneously. Although offered a role in A Kind of Loving (1962), Field turned it down to play the female lead in a Hollywood financed film, The War Lover (1962), with Steve McQueen. In the UK, she had the lead in Lunch Hour (1962), which was one of her favorite films. For Hammer films, Field starred in The Damned (1963), directed by Joseph Losey. She went to Hollywood to play the female lead in an epic directed by J. Lee Thompson, Kings of the Sun (1963). Thompson had her under personal contract at this stage. Field went to Italy to appear in The Wedding March (1966), then back in England made Doctor in Clover (1966) and Alfie (1966). She had a supporting role in Hell Is Empty (1967) and later starred in With Love in Mind (1970) and A Touch of the Other (1970), then made House of the Living Dead (1974). By the late 1970s Field was more commonly seen on TV, in shows such as Centre Play, Shoestring, Buccaneer, Never the Twain and a long run on Santa Barbara as well as TV movies like Two by Forsyth. She had roles in films like My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Shag (1989), Getting It Right (1989), The Rachel Papers (1989), Hear My Song (1991), UFO (1993), Taking Liberty (1993), Loving Deadly (1994), and At Risk (1994). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley Anne Field, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK, 1938-06-27

Died: 2023-12-10

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
2	1973	Last of the Summer Wine	Eva	71
3	1979	Blankety Blank	Self	46
4	1980	Buccaneer	Janet Blair	50
5	1981	Never the Twain	Stephanie	66
6	1982	Countdown		58
7	1984	Santa Barbara	Pamela Capwell Conrad	49
8	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Anne Gillen	75
9	1990	El C.I.D.	Dolly	0
10	1993	Lady Chatterley	Mrs. Bolton	64
11	1995	Bramwell	Peggy Heart	42
12	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe	Cissy Kohler	64
13	1996	Madson	Elaine Dews	65
14	2000	Monarch of the Glen	Sadie	75
15	2001	Waking the Dead	Monica Reynolds	72
16	2008	Cash in the Celebrity Attic	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Simon and Laura	Minor Role	56
2	1955	All for Mary	Young Woman on Aeroplane	62
3	1956	Lost	Girl Working at Taxi Garage	70
4	1956	The Weapon		59
5	1956	Loser Takes All	Attractive Girl in Salle Rivée (uncredited)	54
6	1957	The Good Companions	Redhead - Three Graces	0
7	1957	The Flesh Is Weak	Susan	58
8	1957	Seven Thunders	Prostitute	55
9	1959	Horrors of the Black Museum	Angela Banks	57
10	1959	Upstairs and Downstairs	Arriving Passenger 2 (uncredited)	56
11	1960	And the Same to You	Iris Collins	56
12	1960	Once More, with Feeling!	Angela Hooper	59
13	1960	Peeping Tom	Pauline Shields	74
14	1960	The Entertainer	Tina Lapford	62
15	1960	Beat Girl	Dodo	60
16	1960	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Doreen	70
17	1960	Man in the Moon	Polly	64
18	1962	Lunch Hour	Girl	68
19	1962	The War Lover	Daphne Caldwell	60
20	1962	The Damned	Joan	63
21	1963	Kings of the Sun	Ixchel	61
22	1966	The Wedding March	Laure	66
23	1966	Doctor in Clover	Nurse Bancroft	55
24	1966	Alfie	Carla	65
25	1966	Shotgun	Madeleine	0
26	1967	Hell Is Empty	Shirley McGee	60
27	1970	A Touch of the Other	Elaine	0
28	1974	House of the Living Dead	Mary Anne Carew	43
29	1977	Risking It	Joanne Clewes	0
30	1985	My Beautiful Laundrette	Rachel	67
31	1989	Shag	Mrs. Clatterbuck	62
32	1989	Getting It Right	Anne	70
33	1989	The Rachel Papers	Mrs. Seth Smith	51
34	1991	Hear My Song	Cathleen Doyle	60
35	1993	Anna Lee: Headcase	Mrs. Westerman	52
36	1993	U.F.O. The Movie	Supreme Commander	62
37	1994	Loving Deadly	Madame	0
38	2000	Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry	Mary the Mother of Christie	53
39	2010	The Kid	Margaret	67
40	2011	The Power of Three	Jenni	50
41	2014	Beautiful Relics	Evie	0

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