Shirley Anne Field: a life in pictures | Film

The actor best known for her role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, has died aged 87. Here we look back at her life and career Greg Whitmore Mon 11 Dec 2023 18.30GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Dec 2023 21.17GMT

Shirley Anne Field: a life in pictures

The actor best known for her role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, has died aged 87. Here we look back at her life and career

Main image: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy

Mon 11 Dec 2023 18.30 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Dec 2023 21.17 GMT

  • Shirley Anne Field was born Shirley Broomfield in London in 1936

  • The Flesh Is Weak, 1957

    Spotted while modelling for magazines such as Titbits, Field began working on British B-movies in the 1950s

  • Horrors of the Black Museum, 1959

    Graham Curnow and Field depicted on a lobby card

  • Field photographed in a 1930 Austin 7 in 1959.

  • Peeping Tom, 1960

    Field, pictured here with Moira Shearer, had a small role in Michael Powell’s disturbing psychological thriller

  • The Entertainer, 1960

    Field’s big break came when she was chosen to play alongside Laurence Olivier in the film adaptation of the John Osborne play.

  • A publicity photo of Field in 1959 on location at Morecambe for The Entertainer

  • Beat Girl, 1960

    Gillian Hills, Field, Peter McEnery and Adam Faith in the British teen film aka Wild for Kicks

  • Field in a publicity shot circa 1960

  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1960

    Shirley Anne Field as Doreen and Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton in the classic British kitchen sink drama, based on the novel by Alan Sillitoe

  • The War Lover, 1962

    Robert Wagner, Field and Steve McQueen in the second world war drama

  • The Damned, 1962

    Field as Joan with Oliver Reed as her brother in the brilliant Hammer sci-fi movie directed by Joseph Losey.

  • Field in 1966

  • Doctor In Clover, 1966

    Field, James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips in the sixth of the seven Doctor films

  • Field browsing in London’s Portobello Market in March 1966

  • Alfie, 1966

    Field as one of the conquests of Michael Caine’s eponymous narcissist.

  • Field as Florence Nightingale and Moira Redmond as Queen Victoria in a rehearsal for Edward Bond’s controversial play Early Morning at London’s Royal Court in 1969. Early Morning, with its depiction of the queen as a lesbian, had triggered scandal a year earlier, but was revived to a more positive reception.

  • Field with her young daughter Nicola who was born in 1969. Field was married to Charles Crichton-Stuart from 1967 to 1970.

  • House of the Living Dead, 1974

    Cult British horror/sci-fi, aka Doctor Maniac

  • My Beautiful Laundrette, 1985

    Gordon Warnecke as Omar, Shirley Anne Field as Rachel and Saeed Jaffrey as Uncle Nasser in Stephen Frears successful comedy drama

  • Hear My Song, 1991

    Field, right, with Tara Fitzgerald in Peter Chelsom’s light-opera comedy.

  • Field in June 1992

  • Field with Leo McKern in When We Are Married by JB Priestley at the Chichester Festival Theatre in July 1996

  • Shirley Anne Field in Leicester Square in London in 2010
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