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Shirley Anne Field‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1938-06-27

Popularity

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Shirley Anne Field

Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK

Shirley Anne Field

Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1938-06-27

Popularity

star3.7

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.

Movie Credits

My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette‌
star6.7
calendar 1985

Loser Takes All

Loser Takes All‌
star5.4
calendar 1956

Beat Girl

Beat Girl‌
star5.8
calendar 1960

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning‌
star7.0
calendar 1960

Shag

Shag‌
star6.2
calendar 1989

Alfie

Alfie‌
star6.5
calendar 1966

Horrors of the Black Museum

Horrors of the Black Museum‌
star5.7
calendar 1959

Doctor in Clover

Doctor in Clover‌
star6.0
calendar 1966

Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun‌
star6.1
calendar 1963

The Entertainer

The Entertainer‌
star6.1
calendar 1960

The Damned

The Damned‌
star6.2
calendar 1962

The War Lover

The War Lover‌
star6.0
calendar 1962

Man in the Moon

Man in the Moon‌
star6.4
calendar 1960

House of the Living Dead

House of the Living Dead‌
star4.7
calendar 1974

Lunch Hour

Lunch Hour‌
star6.8
calendar 1962

The Wedding March

The Wedding March‌
star6.6
calendar 1966

Getting It Right

Getting It Right‌
star7.0
calendar 1989

Once More, with Feeling!

Once More, with Feeling!‌
star5.8
calendar 1960

A Touch of the Other

A Touch of the Other‌
star0.0
calendar 1970

The Weapon

The Weapon‌
star5.9
calendar 1956

U.F.O. The Movie

U.F.O. The Movie‌
star6.2
calendar 1993

And the Same to You

And the Same to You‌
star5.6
calendar 1960

Shotgun

Shotgun‌
star0.0
calendar 1966

Loving Deadly

Loving Deadly‌
star0.0
calendar 1994

Risking It

Risking It‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

Beautiful Relics

Beautiful Relics‌
star0.0
calendar 2014

Hear My Song

Hear My Song‌
star5.9
calendar 1991

Anna Lee: Headcase

Anna Lee: Headcase‌
star6.0
calendar 1993

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom‌
star7.4
calendar 1960

The Good Companions

The Good Companions‌
star0.0
calendar 1957

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry‌
star4.8
calendar 2000

The Power of Three

The Power of Three‌
star5.0
calendar 2011

Lost

Lost‌
star7.0
calendar 1956

The Rachel Papers

The Rachel Papers‌
star5.2
calendar 1989

All for Mary

All for Mary‌
star6.2
calendar 1955

Hell Is Empty

Hell Is Empty‌
star6.0
calendar 1967

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura‌
star5.5
calendar 1955

The Flesh Is Weak

The Flesh Is Weak‌
star5.8
calendar 1957

Upstairs and Downstairs

Upstairs and Downstairs‌
star5.2
calendar 1959

The Kid

The Kid‌
star7.0
calendar 2010

Tv Credits

Last of the Summer Wine

Last of the Summer Wine‌
star7.1
calendar 1973

Countdown

Countdown‌
star5.6
calendar 1982

Madson

Madson‌
star6.5
calendar 1996

Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead‌
star7.3
calendar 2001

Blankety Blank

Blankety Blank‌
star4.6
calendar 1979

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson‌
star7.4
calendar 1962

Cash in the Celebrity Attic

Cash in the Celebrity Attic‌
star0.0
calendar 2008

Dalziel & Pascoe

Dalziel & Pascoe‌
star6.3
calendar 1996

Monarch of the Glen

Monarch of the Glen‌
star7.4
calendar 2000

El C.I.D.

El C.I.D.‌
star0.0
calendar 1990

Bramwell

Bramwell‌
star4.2
calendar 1995

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote‌
star7.6
calendar 1984

Never the Twain

Never the Twain‌
star6.4
calendar 1981

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara‌
star4.9
calendar 1984

Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley‌
star6.6
calendar 1993