Shirley Anne Field

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 pinup 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 Its Never Too Late 1956 Its 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 Fields 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 Fields 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 wouldbe 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia