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Shirley Anne Field

Shirley Anne Field

Actor · 1938 – 2023 · Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK

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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.5

    Peeping Tom

    1960 · 929 votes

  • Movie5.1

    The Rachel Papers

    1989 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The War Lover

    1962 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Kings of the Sun

    1963 · 50 votes

  • Movie6.7

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    1985 · 324 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.5

    Alfie

    1966 · 240 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Hear My Song

    1991 · 34 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie5.9

    Beat Girl

    1960 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Kid

    2010 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Shag

    1989 · 63 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie6.3

    The Damned

    1962 · 131 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Doctor in Clover

    1966 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Entertainer

    1960 · 59 votes

  • Movie5.3
  • Movie5.9

    Simon and Laura

    1955 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Weapon

    1956 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Getting It Right

    1989 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Man in the Moon

    1960 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.8
  • Movie
  • Movie5.9

    And the Same to You

    1960 · 8 votes

Series19

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV7.2

    Last of the Summer Wine

    1973 · 41 votes

  • TV7.2

    Waking the Dead

    2001 · 45 votes

  • TV6.4

    Dalziel and Pascoe

    1996 · 28 votes

  • TV6.3

    Lady Chatterley

    1993 · 26 votes

  • TV7.3

    Monarch of the Glen

    2000 · 24 votes

  • TV5.3

    Blankety Blank

    1979 · 8 votes

  • TV7.0

    Centre Play

    1973 · 1 votes

  • TV5.0

    Santa Barbara

    1984 · 45 votes

  • TV7.7

    Shoestring

    1979 · 6 votes

  • TV6.8

    The World of Hammer

    1994 · 4 votes

  • TV6.0

    Countdown

    1982 · 20 votes

  • TV7.0

    Never the Twain

    1981 · 11 votes

  • TV4.2

    Bramwell

    1995 · 6 votes

  • TV6.0

    Buccaneer

    1980 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0

    Madson

    1996 · 3 votes

  • TV10.0

    El C.I.D.

    1990 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    Frost on Sunday

    1968 · 2 votes

  • TV