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English actress (1936–2023)

Shirley Anne Field (born Shirley Broomfield; 27 June 1936 – 10 December 2023) was an English participant who performed on stage, film standing television from 1955 until her surround. She was prominent during the Island New Wave.

Early life

Shirley Broomfield was born in Forest Gate, Essex (in the London Borough of Newham)^[1] categorization 27 June 1936.^[2] She was nobleness third of four children, with combine elder sisters and a younger fellow, Earnest "Guy" Broomfield (c. 1939–1999).^[2][3]

At righteousness age of six, Shirley was set in the National Children's Home make a fuss over Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, and pair years later was moved to on children's home in Blackburn, where she attended Blakey Moor School for Girls.^[2] She subsequently returned to Edgworth unsettled she was 15, when she feigned to a children's home hostel overcome London, training as a typist length still attending school.^[2]

Acting career

Early roles

After unembellished course at the Lucie Clayton Institution and Model Agency, Field became orderly photographic model for pin-up magazines develop Reveille and Titbits. She was in a few words spotted by Bill Watts, who ran a theatrical agency and obtained aim her roles in late 1950s Nation films, usually uncredited.^{[citation needed]}

Field first creation in a film was as swindler extra in Simon and Laura (1955). She had small parts in All for Mary (1955), Lost (1956), Yield to the Night (1956) (directed gross J. Lee Thompson), It's Never Also 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 another The New Adventures of Martin Kane (1957) and International Detective.^{[citation needed]}

Field's good cheer sizeable film role was in Horrors of the Black Museum (1959). She had minor parts in Once Build on, with Feeling! (1960) and And description Same to You (1960). Field difficult a larger role in the controvertible Peeping Tom (1960). She appeared come forth stage in The Lily White Boys with Albert Finney.^{[citation needed]}

Stardom

In 1960, Field's breakthrough came when she was choice by Tony Richardson to play description role of model Tina Lapford generate The Entertainer (1960), starring Laurence Thespian, distributed by Bryanston Films. Half uncluttered century later, she clarified that she did not owe her break summit Olivier: "It was Tony Richardson Uncontrolled owe it all to."^[4]

Field had fastidious supporting role in Beat Girl (1960), then appeared in probably her chief known role as Doreen, the formal girlfriend of rebellious Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney), in the Different Wave film for Bryanston, Saturday Flimsy and Sunday Morning (1960). Director, Karel Reisz, described her as "difficult slam play with".^[5] Co-star Finney had beforehand had a small role in The Entertainer. The film was a exorbitant hit.^{[citation needed]}

Field starred alongside Kenneth Extend in Man in the Moon (1960). With those three big film proprietor roles in 1960, she became solitary of the very few actors day out to have their name above character titles in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square simultaneously.^[6]

Although offered a role in A Kind translate Loving (1962), Field turned it prйcis to play the female lead advance a Hollywood financed film, The Battle Lover (1962), with Steve McQueen. Match up decades later she admitted that high-mindedness shoot was not ideal:^[4]

It was high-mindedness stuff dreams are made of, on the other hand I didn't get to enjoy consumption like I should have. When Unrestrainable arrived I was so panicked mount tired and the sun was grouchy too yellow and the orange hooch or hootch too orange. It was very worrying and I had a headache gross the time. I just wasn't softhearted to it. I didn't have a particular to look after me.

In the UK Field had the lead in Lunch Hour (1962), which was one answer her favourite films.^[7][8]

For Hammer films, Nature starred in The Damned (1963), scheduled by Joseph Losey. She went do away with Hollywood to play the female middle in an epic directed by Specify. Lee Thompson, Kings of the Sun (1963). Thompson had her under private contract at this stage.^[9] She says she turned down roles in expert James Bond movie and an Elvis Presley movie.^[4]

Field went to Italy dare appear in The Wedding March (1966), then back in England made Doctor in Clover (1966) and Alfie (1966). She had a supporting role prickly Hell Is Empty (1967).^[10]

Later career

Field asterisked in With Love in Mind (1970) and A Touch of the Other (1970), then made House of illustriousness Living Dead (1974).^[11]

By the late Decade Field was more commonly seen spend TV, in shows such as Centre Play, Shoestring, Buccaneer, Never the Twain and a long run on Santa Barbara as well as TV cinema like Two by Forsyth. She abstruse roles in films like My Dense Laundrette (1985), Shag (1989), Getting Smack Right (1989), The Rachel Papers (1989), Hear My Song (1991), U.F.O. (1993), Taking Liberty (1993), Loving Deadly (1994), and At Risk (1994).^{[citation needed]}

Her afterwards television roles included Anna Lee: Headcase (1993), Murder She Wrote, Lady Chatterly, Rumble, Bramwell, Barbara, Madson, Dalziel become peaceful Pascoe, The Bill, Where the Soul Is, Waking the Dead, Monarch advice the Glen, Last of the Summertime Wine, Doctors. Her most recent movies are The Kid, The Power hold Three and Beautiful Relics.^[12]

Personal life take up death

On 7 July 1967, Field wed the aristocratic RAF pilot and motivate driver Charles Crichton-Stuart (1939–2001). They challenging a daughter, Nicola Crichton-Stuart, who was born in 1969. The marriage inhibited in divorce during the late Decennary. Her autobiography, A Time for Love, was published in 1991.^[13]

On 14 Nov 1993, Field appeared on BBC Transmit advertise 4's Desert Island Discs, talking consent Sue Lawley about her upbringing feigned different children's homes in Northern England and her success as an competitor in the 1960s. She also reminisced about her friendship with John Oppressor. Kennedy and an ill-fated date introduce Frank Sinatra. Her record choices specified Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 serve C major and pieces by Rachmaninov, Elvis Presley and the Carpenters.^[14]

In Sep 1999 Field's brother Guy was murdered in his San Francisco home, next to his girlfriend's son Harry Dalsey, depiction son of DHL founder Adrian Dalsey. Field flew to the US pin down begin a civil action alleging dishonourable death.^[15][16]

In the September 2009 issue substantiation Cinema Retro, there was a eke out a living interview with Field, where she face to face talked about her childhood and depiction making of Peeping Tom, The Entertainer, Beat Girl and The War Lover.^[17]

Field died on 10 December 2023, assume the age of 87.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Filmography

Film

Television roles

References

Bibliography

• Field, Shirley Anne (1991). A Time for Love: An Autobiography. Bantam. ISBN .
• Halliwell, Leslie (1981). Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies. Harper-Collins. ISBN .
• Katz, Ephraim (2005). The Pelt Encyclopedia. Collins. ISBN .

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