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Shirley Anne Field
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Shirley Anne Field
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-06-27,Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

My Beautiful Laundrette

6.8

My Beautiful Laundrette
1985-11-16

Loser Takes All

5.4

Loser Takes All
1956-09-09

5.9

Beat Girl
1960-08-21

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

7

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960-10-27

6.2

Shag
1989-04-14

6.491

Alfie
1966-03-29

Horrors of the Black Museum

5.7

Horrors of the Black Museum
1959-04-29

Doctor in Clover

5.857

Doctor in Clover
1966-03-08

Kings of the Sun

6.1

Kings of the Sun
1963-12-18

The Entertainer

6.2

The Entertainer
1960-07-25

6.3

The Damned
1962-11-16

5.984

The War Lover
1962-10-25

Man in the Moon

6.4

Man in the Moon
1960-10-31

House of the Living Dead

4.7

House of the Living Dead
1974-08-12

6.8

Lunch Hour
1962-01-01

The Wedding March

6.6

The Wedding March
1966-02-17

Getting It Right

7

Getting It Right
1989-05-05

Once More, with Feeling!

5.9

Once More, with Feeling!
1960-02-11

A Touch of the Other

0

A Touch of the Other
1970-01-01

5.9

The Weapon
1956-09-01

U.F.O. The Movie

6.2

U.F.O. The Movie
1993-12-10

And the Same to You

5.6

And the Same to You
1960-02-01

0

Shotgun
1966-07-11

0

Loving Deadly
1994-01-01

0

Risking It
1977-07-05

Beautiful Relics

0

Beautiful Relics
2014-11-01

5.95

Hear My Song
1991-12-27

Anna Lee: Headcase

6

Anna Lee: Headcase
1993-01-10

7.4

Peeping Tom
1960-05-16

The Good Companions

0

The Good Companions
1957-04-22

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

5

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
2000-12-07

The Power of Three

5

The Power of Three
2011-11-10

7

Lost
1956-01-31

The Rachel Papers

5.1

The Rachel Papers
1989-05-12

6.2

All for Mary
1955-12-21

6

Hell Is Empty
1967-12-20

Simon and Laura

5.6

Simon and Laura
1955-11-02

The Flesh Is Weak

5.8

The Flesh Is Weak
1957-08-06

Upstairs and Downstairs

5.625

Upstairs and Downstairs
1959-11-02

7

The Kid
2010-04-22

Last of the Summer Wine

7.1

Last of the Summer Wine
1973-01-04

5.8

Countdown
1982-11-02

6.5

Madson
1996-04-17

Waking the Dead

7.3

Waking the Dead
2001-06-18

4.6

Blankety Blank
1979-01-18

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.41

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01

Cash in the Celebrity Attic

0

Cash in the Celebrity Attic
2008-07-07

Monarch of the Glen

7.5

Monarch of the Glen
2000-02-27

Dalziel & Pascoe

6.4

Dalziel & Pascoe
1996-03-16

4.2

Bramwell
1995-05-01

0

El C.I.D.
1990-02-07

Murder, She Wrote

7.5

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

Never the Twain

6.6

Never the Twain
1981-09-07

4.9

Santa Barbara
1984-07-30

Lady Chatterley

6.4

Lady Chatterley
1993-06-06