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), 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 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.
Rachel
Film 1985
Attractive Girl in Salle Rivée (uncredited)
Film 1956
Dodo
Film 1960
Doreen
Film 1960
Mrs. Clatterbuck
Film 1989
Angela Banks
Film 1959
Polly
Film 1960
Mary Anne Carew
Film 1974
Girl
Film 1962
Laure
Film 1966
Anne
Film 1989
Angela Hooper
Film 1960
Elaine
Film 1970
Film 1956
Supreme Commander
Film 1993
Iris Collins
Film 1960
Madeleine
Film 1966
Madame
Film 1994
Joanne Clewes
Film 1977
Evie
Film 2014
Mrs. Westerman
Film 1993
Pauline Shields
Film 1960
Redhead - Three Graces
Film 1957
Mary the Mother of Christie
Film 2000
Jenni
Film 2011
Girl Working at Taxi Garage
Film 1956
Young Woman on Aeroplane
Film 1955
Shirley McGee
Film 1967
Minor Role
Film 1955
Susan
Film 1957
Arriving Passenger 2 (uncredited)
Film 1959
Eva
Tv 1973
Tv 1982
Monica Reynolds
Tv 2001
Tv 1979
Self
Tv 1962
Self
Tv 2008
Cissy Kohler
Tv 1996
Sadie
Tv 2000
Dolly
Tv 1990
Peggy Heart
Tv 1995
Anne Gillen
Tv 1984
Stephanie
Tv 1981
Pamela Capwell Conrad
Tv 1984
Mrs. Bolton
Tv 1993