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Shirley Anne Field

Acting
Known For

85 Years Old

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.

Born

Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK on 27th June 1938

Died

10th December 2023

All Credits

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Last of the Summer Wine
Eva
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
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Never the Twain
Stephanie
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Blankety Blank
Self
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Murder, She Wrote
Anne Gillen
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Waking the Dead
Monica Reynolds
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Self
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Monarch of the Glen
Sadie
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Lady Chatterley
Mrs. Bolton
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Dalziel & Pascoe
Cissy Kohler
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Santa Barbara
Pamela Capwell Conrad
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Countdown
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Buccaneer
Janet Blair
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Madson
Elaine Dews
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Bramwell
Peggy Heart
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Peeping Tom
Pauline Shields
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Shag
Mrs. Clatterbuck
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Alfie
Carla
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Rachel
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Beat Girl
Dodo
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Kings of the Sun
Ixchel
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Doreen
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The Damned
Joan
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And the Same to You
Iris Collins
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El C.I.D.
Dolly
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The Power of Three
Jenni
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The War Lover
Daphne Caldwell
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House of the Living Dead
Mary Anne Carew
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The Entertainer
Tina Lapford
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The Rachel Papers
Mrs. Seth Smith
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Angela Banks
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Arriving Passenger 2 (uncredited)
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The Kid
Margaret
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Hell Is Empty
Shirley McGee
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Lost
Girl Working at Taxi Garage
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Loser Takes All
Attractive Girl in Salle Rivée (uncredited)
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Hear My Song
Cathleen Doyle
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Once More, with Feeling!
Angela Hooper
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Simon and Laura
Minor Role
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Getting It Right
Anne
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The Weapon
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Man in the Moon
Polly
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Doctor in Clover
Nurse Bancroft
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The Wedding March
Laure
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Loving Deadly
Madame
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Anna Lee: Headcase
Mrs. Westerman
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The Good Companions
Redhead - Three Graces
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The Flesh Is Weak
Susan
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Seven Thunders
Prostitute
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Lunch Hour
Girl
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U.F.O. The Movie
Supreme Commander
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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
Mary the Mother of Christie
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All for Mary
Young Woman on Aeroplane
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Shotgun
Madeleine
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A Touch of the Other
Elaine
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Beautiful Relics
Evie
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Risking It
Joanne Clewes