Shirley Anne Field
Born
June 27, 1938
Died
December 10, 2023 (85 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK
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).
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Known For

Beautiful Relics
Evie
2014

The Power of Three
Jenni
2011

The Kid
Margaret
2010
Cash in the Celebrity Attic
Self · (1 episode)
2008

Waking the Dead
Monica Reynolds · (2 episodes)
2001

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
Mary the Mother of Christie
2000

Monarch of the Glen
Sadie · (1 episode)
2000

Madson
Elaine Dews · (6 episodes)
1996

Dalziel & Pascoe
Cissy Kohler · (1 episode)
1996

Bramwell
Peggy Heart · (1 episode)
1995

Loving Deadly
Madame
1994

U.F.O. The Movie
Supreme Commander
1993

Lady Chatterley
Mrs. Bolton · (4 episodes)
1993
Anna Lee: Headcase
Mrs. Westerman
1993

Hear My Song
Cathleen Doyle
1991
El C.I.D.
Dolly · (1 episode)
1990

The Rachel Papers
Mrs. Seth Smith
1989

Getting It Right
Anne
1989

Shag
Mrs. Clatterbuck
1989

My Beautiful Laundrette
Rachel
1985

Murder, She Wrote
Anne Gillen · (1 episode)
1984

Santa Barbara
Pamela Capwell Conrad · (242 episodes)
1984

Countdown
(6 episodes)
1982

Never the Twain
Stephanie · (1 episode)
1981

Blankety Blank
(1 episode)
1979

Risking It
Joanne Clewes
1977

House of the Living Dead
Mary Anne Carew
1974

Last of the Summer Wine
Eva · (1 episode)
1973

A Touch of the Other
Elaine
1970

Hell Is Empty
Shirley McGee
1967
Shotgun
Madeleine
1966

Alfie
Carla
1966

Doctor in Clover
Nurse Bancroft
1966

The Wedding March
Laure
1966

Kings of the Sun
Ixchel
1963

The Damned
Joan
1962

The War Lover
Daphne Caldwell
1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
1962

Lunch Hour
Girl
1962

Man in the Moon
Polly
1960

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Doreen
1960

Beat Girl
Dodo
1960

The Entertainer
Tina Lapford
1960

Peeping Tom
Pauline Shields
1960

Once More, with Feeling!
Angela Hooper
1960

And the Same to You
Iris Collins
1960

Upstairs and Downstairs
Arriving Passenger 2 (uncredited)
1959

Horrors of the Black Museum
Angela Banks
1959

Seven Thunders
Prostitute
1957

The Flesh Is Weak
Susan
1957

The Good Companions
Redhead - Three Graces
1957

Loser Takes All
Attractive Girl in Salle Rivée (uncredited)
1956

The Weapon
1956

Lost
Girl Working at Taxi Garage
1956

All for Mary
Young Woman on Aeroplane
1955

Simon and Laura
Minor Role
1955