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Shirley Anne Field

Actress

Born - 27 June 1936, Forest Gate, London, England
Died - 10 December 2023

Copper-haired English actress with inquiring features and voluptuous curves, a top pin-up of the 1950s who soon proved herself a serious performer in realist dramas. Born Shirley Ann Broomfield, her later career was patchy, but she returned with some force as a character actress of the 1980s and beyond: All for Mary (1955), Lost (1955), Loser Takes All (1956), The Weapon (1956), The Good Companions (1957), The Flesh is Weak (1957), Horrors of the Black Museum (1959), Once More With Feeling (1959), Peeping Tom (1960), The Entertainer (1960), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The Damned (1961), The War Lover (1962), Lunch Hour (1962), Kings of the Sun (1963), Wedding March (1965), Alfie (1966), Doctor in Clover (1966), Hell is Empty (1967), With Love in Mind (1969), A Touch of the Other (1970), Dr Maniac (1973), My Beautiful Laundrette (1988), Shag (1988), The Rachel Papers (1989), Getting It Right (1989), Hear My Song (1991), U.F.O. (1993), At Risk (1994), Taking Liberty (1995), Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (2000), Heyday (2005), The Kid (2010), The Power of Three (2011) and the short Beautiful Relics (2014), her last.