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Shirley Anne Field

Shirley Anne Field

Known For Acting
Birthday Jun 27, 1938
Died Dec 10, 2023 (85)
Birthplace Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK
Popularity 0.2 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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.

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Filmography

Beautiful Relics

Beautiful Relics

2014

as Evie

The Power of Three

The Power of Three

2011

as Jenni

The Kid

The Kid

2010

as Margaret

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

2000

as Mary the Mother of Christie

U.F.O. The Movie

U.F.O. The Movie

1993

as Supreme Commander

Anna Lee: Headcase

Anna Lee: Headcase

1993

as Mrs. Westerman

Hear My Song

Hear My Song

1991

as Cathleen Doyle

Getting It Right

Getting It Right

1989

as Anne

Shag

Shag

1989

as Mrs. Clatterbuck

The Rachel Papers

The Rachel Papers

1989

as Mrs. Seth Smith

My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette

1985

as Rachel

House of the Living Dead

House of the Living Dead

1974

as Mary Anne Carew

A Touch of the Other

A Touch of the Other

1970

as Elaine

Hell Is Empty

Hell Is Empty

1967

as Shirley McGee

Doctor in Clover

Doctor in Clover

1966

as Nurse Bancroft

Alfie

Alfie

1966

as Carla

Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun

1963

as Ixchel

Lunch Hour

Lunch Hour

1962

as Girl

The Damned

The Damned

1962

as Joan

The War Lover

The War Lover

1962

as Daphne Caldwell

Man in the Moon

Man in the Moon

1960

as Polly

Beat Girl

Beat Girl

1960

as Dodo

The Entertainer

The Entertainer

1960

as Tina Lapford

Once More, with Feeling!

Once More, with Feeling!

1960

as Angela Hooper

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

1960

as Pauline Shields

And the Same to You

And the Same to You

1960

as Iris Collins

Horrors of the Black Museum

Horrors of the Black Museum

1959

as Angela Banks

Upstairs and Downstairs

Upstairs and Downstairs

1959

as Arriving Passenger 2 (uncredited)

The Flesh Is Weak

The Flesh Is Weak

1957

as Susan

The Good Companions

The Good Companions

1957

as Redhead - Three Graces

Lost

Lost

1956

as Girl Working at Taxi Garage

Loser Takes All

Loser Takes All

1956

as Attractive Girl in Salle Rivée (uncredited)

All for Mary

All for Mary

1955

as Young Woman on Aeroplane

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura

1955

as Minor Role

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Television Credits

Santa Barbara

as Pamela Capwell Conrad

Episodes: 242

First Aired: Jul 30, 1984

Madson

as Elaine Dews

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Apr 17, 1996

Lady Chatterley

as Mrs. Bolton

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jun 06, 1993

Waking the Dead

as Monica Reynolds

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jun 18, 2001

Last of the Summer Wine

as Eva

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 04, 1973

Monarch of the Glen

as Sadie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 27, 2000

Dalziel & Pascoe

as Cissy Kohler

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 16, 1996

Bramwell

as Peggy Heart

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 01, 1995

El C.I.D.

as Dolly

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 07, 1990

Murder, She Wrote

as Anne Gillen

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1984

Never the Twain

as Stephanie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 07, 1981

Countdown

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Nov 02, 1982

Blankety Blank

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 18, 1979

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 01, 1962

Cash in the Celebrity Attic

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 07, 2008

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