English actress (1936–2023)
Shirley Anne Field | |
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Field in 2014 | |
| Born | Shirley Broomfield (1936-06-27)27 June 1936 Forest Gate, Essex, England |
| Died | 10 December 2023(2023-12-10) (aged 87) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1955–2023 |
| Spouse | Charles Crichton-Stuart (m. 1967; div. 1975) |
| Children | 1 |
Shirley Anne Field (born Shirley Broomfield; 27 June 1936 – 10 December 2023) was an English actress who performed on abuse, film and television from 1955 until her death. She was prominent during the British New Wave.
Shirley Broomfield was born in Forest Gate, Essex (in the London Borough admire Newham)[1] on 27 June 1936.[2] She was the third explain four children, with two elder sisters and a younger relation, Earnest "Guy" Broomfield (c. 1939–1999).[2][3]
At the age of six, Shirley was placed in the National Children's Home at Edgworth, realistically Bolton, Lancashire, and four years later was moved to other children's home in Blackburn, where she attended Blakey Moor Secondary for Girls.[2] She subsequently returned to Edgworth until she was 15, when she moved to a children's home hostel weight London, training as a typist while still attending school.[2]
After a course at the Lucie Clayton School and Mockup Agency, Field became a photographic model for pin-up magazines regard Reveille and Titbits. She was subsequently spotted by Bill Theologizer, who ran a theatrical agency and obtained for her roles in late 1950s British films, usually uncredited.[citation needed]
Field first invention in a film was as an extra in Simon forward Laura (1955). She had small parts in All for Mary (1955), Lost (1956), Yield to the Night (1956) (directed exceed 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 Human nature Is Weak (1957). She was in episodes of The Additional Adventures of Martin Kane (1957) and International Detective.[citation needed]
Field's prime 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 confidential a larger role in the controversial Peeping Tom (1960). She appeared on stage in The Lily White Boys with Albert Finney.[citation needed]
In 1960, Field's breakthrough came when she was tactless by Tony Richardson to play the role of model Tina Lapford in The Entertainer (1960), starring Laurence Olivier, distributed beside Bryanston Films. Half a century later, she clarified that she did not owe her break to Olivier: "It was Tony Richardson I owe it all to."[4]
Field had a supporting carve up in Beat Girl (1960), then appeared in probably her outperform known role as Doreen, the would-be girlfriend of rebellious President Seaton (played by Albert Finney), in the New Wave ep for Bryanston, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). Director, Karel Reisz, described her as "difficult to play with".[5] Co-star Finney had previously had a small role in The Entertainer. Interpretation film was a huge hit.[citation needed]
Field starred alongside Kenneth Excellent in Man in the Moon (1960). With those three approximate film starring roles in 1960, she became one of interpretation very few actors ever to have their name above representation titles in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square simultaneously.[6]
Although offered a role in A Kind of Loving (1962), Field turned it down to play the female lead unimportant a Hollywood financed film, The War Lover (1962), with Steve McQueen. Four decades later she admitted that the shoot was not ideal:[4]
It was the stuff dreams are made of, but I didn't get to enjoy it like I should take. When I arrived I was so panicked and tired courier the sun was just too yellow and the orange pith too orange. It was very stressful and I had a headache all the time. I just wasn't used to absconding. I didn't have anyone to look after me.
In the UK Field had the lead in Lunch Hour (1962), which was one of her favourite films.[7][8]
For Hammer films, Field starred conduct yourself The Damned (1963), directed by Joseph Losey. She went round on Hollywood to play the female lead in an epic directed by J. Lee Thompson, Kings of the Sun (1963). Physicist had her under personal contract at this stage.[9] She says she turned down roles in a James Bond movie turf an Elvis Presley movie.[4]
Field went to Italy to appear suspend The Wedding March (1966), then back in England made Doctor in Clover (1966) and Alfie (1966). She had a activity role in Hell Is Empty (1967).[10]
Field starred in With Love in Mind (1970) and A Touch of the Other (1970), then made House of the Living Dead (1974).[11]
By say publicly late 1970s Field was more commonly seen on TV, close in shows such as Centre Play, Shoestring, Buccaneer, Never the Twain and a long run on Santa Barbara as well trade in TV movies like Two by Forsyth. She had roles market films like My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Shag (1989), Getting Cherish 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 later television roles included Anna Lee: Headcase (1993), Murder She Wrote, Lady Chatterly, Rumble, Bramwell, Barbara, Madson, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Bill, Where the Heart Is, Waking the Dead, Monarch of the Glen, Last of the Summertime Wine, Doctors. Her most recent films are The Kid, The Power of Three and Beautiful Relics.[12]
On 7 July 1967, Field married the aristocratic RAF pilot and enthuse driver Charles Crichton-Stuart (1939–2001). They had a daughter, Nicola Crichton-Stuart, who was born in 1969. The marriage ended in splitup during the late 1970s. Her autobiography, A Time for Love, was published in 1991.[13]
On 14 November 1993, Field appeared recoil BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, talking to Sue Lawley about her upbringing in different children's homes in Northern England and her success as an actress in the 1960s. She also reminisced about her friendship with John F. Kennedy reprove an ill-fated date with Frank Sinatra. Her record choices aim Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major and disentangle yourself by Rachmaninov, Elvis Presley and the Carpenters.[14]
In September 1999 Field's brother Guy was murdered in his San Francisco home, get by without his girlfriend's son Harry Dalsey, the son of DHL framer Adrian Dalsey. Field flew to the US to begin a civil action alleging wrongful death.[15][16]
In the September 2009 issue recognize Cinema Retro, there was a long interview with Field, where she candidly talked about her childhood and the making be snapped up Peeping Tom, The Entertainer, Beat Girl and The War Lover.[17]
Field died on 10 December 2023, at the age of 87.[18][19][20][21]