Shirley Anne Field, The Entertainer and Alfie actor, dead at 87
English actor rose to prominence after starring opposite Laurence Olivier in 1960’s ‘The Entertainer’
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Shirley Anne Field, the English actor known for her film roles in The Entertainer and Alfie, has died aged 87, her family has announced.
A statement shared by her representative from her family said: “It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that Shirley Anne Field passed away peacefully on Sunday 10 December 2023, surrounded by her family and friends.
“Shirley Anne will be greatly missed and remembered for her unbreakable spirit and her amazing legacy spanning more than five decades on stage and screen.”
Shirley Broomfield was born in Forest Gate, Essex (now in the London Borough of Newham) on 27 June 1936. She was the third of four children, with two elder sisters and a younger brother, Earnest "Guy" Broomfield (c. 1939–1999). Her brother was murdered, in 1999, by Harry Dalsey, the son of Adrian Dalsey.
At the age of six, Shirley was placed in the National Children's Home at Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire and four years later was moved to another children's home in Blackburn, where she attended Blakey Moor School for Girls. She subsequently returned to Edgworth until she was 15, when she moved to a children's home hostel in London, training as a typist while still attending school.
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.
Filmography
Lost (1955) as Taxi driver's daughter (uncredited)
Dry Rot (1956) as Waitress in Cafe (uncredited)
Loser Takes All (1956) as Girl at Roulette Table
It's a Wonderful World (1956) as Pretty Girl
The Flesh Is Weak (1957) as Susan
The Good Companions (1957) as Redhead
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) as Angela Banks
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
Jungle Street (later renamed Jungle Street Girls) (1960) as
Jaqui
Man in the Moon (1960) as Polly
Beat Girl (1960) as Dodo
Once More, with Feeling! (1960) as Angela Hopper
And the Same to You (1960) as Iris Collins
Peeping Tom (1960) as Diane Ashley
The Entertainer (1960) as Tina Lapford
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) as Doreen
Lunch Hour (1962) as Girl [20]
The War Lover (1962) as Daphne
The Damned (1963) as Joan
Kings of the Sun (1963) as Ixchel
Doctor in Clover (1966) as Nurse Bancroft
Alfie (1966) as Carla
A Touch of the Other (1970) as Elaine
House of the Living Dead (1974) as Mary Anne Carew
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) as Rachel
Getting It Right (1989) as Anne
Shag (1989) as Mrs. Clatterback
The Rachel Papers (1989) as Mrs. Smith
Hear My Song (1991) as Cathleen Doyle
Loving Deadly (1994) as Madame
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000) as Mary, the Mother
of Christie
The Kid (2010) as Margaret
The Power of Three (2011) as Jenni
Selected television appearances
Santa Barbara
Monarch of the Glen
Where the Heart Is
The Bill
Dalziel and Pascoe episode "Recalled to Life"
Murder, She Wrote
Never the Twain
Upstairs, Downstairs
Last of the Summer Wine
Shoestring
Doctors
Bramwell, season 1, episode 2 ("The Threat of Reprise") as Peggy Heart
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