Shirley Anne Field

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 rol…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Peeping Tom (1960) — Pauline Shields
2. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Anne Gillen
3. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) — Rachel
4. Alfie (1966) — Carla
5. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) — Doreen
6. The Damned (1962) — Joan
7. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
8. Shag (1989) — Mrs. Clatterbuck
9. The Entertainer (1960) — Tina Lapford
10. Kings of the Sun (1963) — Ixchel
11. Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) — Angela Banks
12. Waking the Dead (2001) — Monica Reynolds
13. Santa Barbara (1984) — Pamela Capwell Conrad
14. Last of the Summer Wine (1973) — Eva
15. Beat Girl (1960) — Dodo
16. The War Lover (1962) — Daphne Caldwell
17. The Rachel Papers (1989) — Mrs. Seth Smith
18. Hear My Song (1991) — Cathleen Doyle
19. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) — Cissy Kohler
20. The Kid (2010) — Margaret
21. Lady Chatterley (1993) — Mrs Ivy Bolton
22. Monarch of the Glen (2000) — Sadie
23. Countdown (1982)
24. The Weapon (1956)
25. Doctor in Clover (1966) — Nurse Bancroft
26. The Wedding March (1966) — Laure
27. Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000) — Mary the Mother of Christie
28. Simon and Laura (1955) — Minor Role
29. Seven Thunders (1957) — Prostitute
30. Getting It Right (1989) — Anne
31. Man in the Moon (1960) — Polly
32. Never the Twain (1981) — Stephanie
33. House of the Living Dead (1974) — Mary Anne Carew
34. Lunch Hour (1962) — Girl
35. Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) — Arriving Passenger 2 (uncredited)
36. Once More, with Feeling! (1960) — Angela Hooper
37. And the Same to You (1960) — Iris Collins
38. Anna Lee: Headcase (1993) — Mrs. Westerman
39. Blankety Blank (1979) — Self
40. U.F.O. The Movie (1993) — Supreme Commander