Shirley Anne Field: The Entertainer and Alfie actress dies aged 87

Dec 11, 2023 at 7:07 PM
Shirley Anne Field: The Entertainer and Alfie actress dies aged 87

Actress Shirley Anne Field, finest identified for taking part in Tina Lapford in The Entertainer, has died aged 87.

The star of stage and display screen shot to fame after her function within the Sixties drama alongside Laurence Olivier.

She went on to characteristic in movies together with 1966 comedy, Alfie, alongside Sir Michael Caine and kitchen sink drama Saturday Night And Sunday Morning with Albert Finney in 1960.

Field and Caine in Alfie. Pic: Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock
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Field and Caine in Alfie. Pic: Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

“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,” a household assertion mentioned.

“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.”

Having began as a mannequin within the Nineteen Fifties, Field first moved to appearing within the comedy Loser Takes All and musical movie It’s A Wonderful World.

After her look alongside Olivier, her movie star grew, and she or he went on to star in a string of movies, tv sequence and stage productions.

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The Entertainer follows Olivier as Archie Rice, a failing music-hall stage performer who tries to maintain his profession going as music-hall traditions are fading out.

File photo dated 26/10/60 of Albert Finney (left) Shirley Anne Field and author Alan Sillitoe, in a London pub attending a pre-premier party of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'. Actress Shirley Anne Field, who starred in The Entertainer and Alfie, has died at the age of 87, her family said in a statement. Issue date: Monday December 11, 2023.
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(L-R) Albert Finney, Field and creator Alan Sillitoe in a London pub in 1960

His private life then turns into chaos after assembly magnificence queen and aspiring entertainer Tina Lapford, with whom he has an affair.

Field would then go on to starred alongside Sir Michael in Alfie.

The star’s different hit movies and TV appearances included 1962’s The War Lover alongside Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner, 1985 romantic comedy My Beautiful Laundrette with Daniel Day-Lewis and sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine.

File photo dated 14/10/04 of Shirley Anne Field arriving for the world charity premiere of Alfie at the Empire Leicester Square in central London, in aid of Make-A-Wish foundation. Actress Shirley Anne Field, who starred in The Entertainer and Alfie, has died at the age of 87, her family said in a statement. Issue date: Monday December 11, 2023.

In newer years, Field starred within the 2014 brief drama Beautiful Relics reverse Flora Spencer-Longhurst.

She married racing driver Charles Crichton-Stuart in 1967, they usually had a daughter Nicola earlier than divorcing. Crichton-Stuart died in 2001.