Shirley Ann FieldFilmography

Where the Heart Is [TV Series]

Actors: Pam Ferris, Sarah Lancashire, Tony Haygarth, Thomas Craig, Jessica Baglow

Synopsis: One of the most popular British TV soap operas of the late 20th-early 21st century, Where the Heart Is was set in the fictional community of Skelthwaite. Originally, the stories focused on two nurses, Peggy Snow (Pam Ferris) and Ruth Goddard (Sarah Lancashire), and their extended families. Read More

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At Risk

Actors: Elana K. Pyle, Daniel McDonald, Kim Myers, Vince Vaughn, Shirley Ann Field

Synopsis: This morality tale examines AIDS in the heterosexual community. Lara, after spending a year in Mexico unsuccessfully trying to save her marriage to Steven, returns to the U.S. to find Max, her lover. However Max has gone without a trace. Lara remembers the first time they met in the office of a Read More

Lady Chatterley

Actors: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Ann Field

Synopsis: Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Wind Around the Tower

Synopsis: This episode is set in Ireland, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) has arrived to research a new book in the company of her college colleague, retired Irish detective Sean Culhane (George Hearn). Invited to stay at the home of wealthy developer Neal Gillen (Dakin Matthews), Jessica and Sean are among Read More

Hear My Song

Actors: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, David McCallum, Tara Fitzgerald, Shirley Ann Field

Synopsis: The owner of a British nightclub attempts to do the impossible by coaxing a legendary Irish tenor out of retirement for a once-in-a-lifetime show in this engagingly quirky comedy. The owner, Mickey O'Neill, is particularly desperate to land a performance by the great Josef Locke, as his already Read More

Shag

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah

Synopsis: Shag is a beach flick set in 1963. The years have passed, but the old Where the Boys Are formula holds firm: Four attractive young lasses head for the surf and sand of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, looking for guys. Phoebe Cates is about to be married, so her three pals seek out a final affair Read More

The Rachel Papers

Actors: Dexter Fletcher, Ione Skye, Jonathan Pryce, James Spader

Synopsis: A teen sex comedy derived from the arch debut novel of author Martin Amis by debut director Damian Harris (son of actor Richard Harris). Dexter Fletcher stars as Charles Highway, a 19-year-old computer nerd in London who has created a program that will allegedly guide him through the process of Read More

Getting It Right

Actors: Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Cook, Lynn Redgrave, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Based on Elizabeth Jane Howard's novel, Getting It Right this charming comedy follows the story of Gavin Lamb (Jesse Birdsall), a 31 year-old virgin who is terrified with women and still lives with his parents. Nevertheless, he becomes the subject of desire for a variety of women, including a Read More

My Beautiful Laundrette

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Ann Field

Synopsis: After the death of his wife and his subsequent descent into alcoholic near-agoraphobia, a crotchety Pakistani intellectual convinces his shady entrepreneur brother to provide work for his son in this multi-layered portrait of the immigrant experience in Great Britain. Young Londoner Omar (Gordon Read More

Two by Forsyth

Synopsis: A wealthy man attempts to keep his fortune from falling into the hands of his avaricious relatives upon his death, and a temperate man has had it with a gossip columnist in these two shorts adapted from stories by Frederick Forsyth. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

House of the Living Dead

Synopsis: This low-budget horror production from South Africa features mad scientist Mark Burns conducting hideous occult experiments at the family estate of Brattling Manor, monkeying about with things man was not meant to know, including the transfer and containment of living souls. It's only a matter of Read More

A Touch of the Other

Synopsis: 92 minutes is way too much time for the familiar plot machinations of Touch of the Other. Kenneth Cope stars as a detective who is framed for murder. Fortunately, Cope has several underworld connections who owe him favorites. With their help, and with the aid and comfort of hooker Shirley Ann Read More

Hell Is Empty

Synopsis: This drama centers upon a female thief and her robber band as they try to hide out from the cops on a deserted island. Their only shelter is an abandoned mansion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alfie

Actors: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher

Synopsis: Michael Caine's first starring role was a foray into dramatic irony, scripted by Bill Naughton from his novel and play. Alfie (Caine) is a charming, rogueish Cockney who cannot get his fill of women. He uses them without shame or malice, jumping from one promiscuous female's bed to another without Read More

Doctor in Clover

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Shirley Ann Field, John Fraser, Joan Sims

Synopsis: Doctor in Clover is the next-to-last entry in the British "Doctor" comedy film series. After losing his government job, doctor Gaston Grimsdyke (Leslie Phillips) signs up for a medical school course with his old tutor-nemesis Sir Lancelot Spratt (welcome back, James Robertson Justice). What Read More

Man in the Middle

Actors: Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Based on Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair, this WW II-era crime drama is set in India and chronicles the attempts of an American military attorney to defend a lieutenant who shot a British officer in cold blood. Many witnesses were present and the question the lawyer must answer is whether Read More

Kings of the Sun

Actors: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Ann Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: In this historical adventure saga, Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of the Mayan people; when his father is killed in battle, Balam succeeds his father as King and leads his followers out of Mexico to a coastal region. The Mayan's new home, however, is already the province of a Read More

Lunch Hour

Synopsis: When a junior executive organizes a romantic encounter with a designer everything falls about creating this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The War Lover

Actors: Al Waxman, Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Ann Field, Gary Cockrell, Michael Crawford

Synopsis: Loosely based on a novel by John Hersey, this standard wartime drama stars Steve McQueen as Buzz Rickson, command pilot of a B17 bomber, and Robert Wagner as Ed Bolland, his co-pilot. When Buzz first comes on the scene, Ed admires him for his daring and skill in executing the bombing raids over Read More

These Are the Damned

Actors: MacDonald Carey, Shirley Ann Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Joseph Losey directed this unusual science fiction effort, which has won a small but fervent cult following. Simon Wells (MacDonald Carey) is an American visiting England, where he meets a woman named Joan (Shirley Ann Field). Simon is immediately attracted to Joan, but there's a considerable Read More

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Actors: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: "All I want is a good time. The rest is propaganda." That's the philosophy of archetypal British "angry young man" Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney). A middle-class working stiff in a dead-end job, Arthur's principal goal in life is to survive the work week, then spend the weekend raising as much hell Read More

And the Same to You

Synopsis: An A.P. Dearsley stage play was the basis for the seven-reel British comedy And the Same to You. Brian Rix stars as the pugnacious nephew of clergyman Sydney Mullett. Stuck with the name "Dickie Dreadnought," Rix feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. To mollify his uncle, Rix Read More

Upstairs and Downstairs

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, Sidney James, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims

Synopsis: A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for a housemaid, with a series of impossible women providing the hilarity. When Richard and Kate (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) return from their honeymoon, they discover Read More

The Entertainer

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Alan Bates, Albert Finney

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face film adaptation of John Osborne's play. The son of a legendary music hall comedian (Roger Livesey), Archie is strictly a third-rater, headlining a tacky music hall revue in a seedy seaside resort town. Archie can't admit Read More

Beat Girl

Actors: David Farrar, Noëlle Adam, Christopher Lee, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith

Synopsis: A rebellious teenager runs away from home and joins the SoHo beatniks when her widowed father remarries a much younger woman. But beatnik life isn't all it seems and she ends up hanging out as a stripper in a sleazy club, hoping to learn about her mom. There the creepy club owner attempts to Read More

Peeping Tom

Actors: Karl Heinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Shirley Ann Field, Esmond Knight

Synopsis: Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his career when it was first released, but later generations have come to regard it as a masterpiece. Karl Heinz Boehm stars as Mark, the son of a psychologist who kept a video journal of the boy's upbringing Read More

Once More, with Feeling

Actors: Yul Brynner, Kay Kendall, Geoffrey Toone, Maxwell Shaw, Gregory Ratoff, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall star as Victor and Dolly Fabian in this successful cinematic version of the stage comedy by Harry Kurnitz. Victor is a larger-than-life symphony conductor who loves music but has all the social skills of a wounded rhinoceros. After his wife Dolly gets fed up with Read More

Man in the Moon

Actors: Kenneth More, Shirley Ann Field, Norman Bird, Michael Hordern, John Glyn-Jones

Synopsis: Kenneth More was beginning to segue into comedy roles when he took on the character of William in this standard sci-fi parody by director Basil Dearden. William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold when he is soon fired and offered a job by Read More

Horrors of the Black Museum

Actors: Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Ann Field, Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis: The power of hypnotism provides the basis of this film that was released in "Hypnovision" (yet another promotional gimmick) A budding and frustrated mystery writer takes extreme steps to insure that his latest thriller contains accurate descriptions of horrible murders in this gory horror Read More

The Good Companions

Actors: Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, Janette Scott, John Fraser

Synopsis: 1957's The Good Companions was the second film version of the well-known J. B. Priestly play. The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. Eric Portman, Celia Johnson and John Fraser are three Britons from various classes and walks of life who Read More

The Flesh Is Weak

Actors: John Derek, Milly Vitale, William Franklyn, Martin Benson, Freda Jackson

Synopsis: This once-notorious British expose film now seems as innocent as a community choir rehearsal. Based on the real-life activities of London's Messina gang, The Flesh is Weak tells the story of a decent girl named Marissa Cooper (Milly Vitale) who is inveigled by a family of pimps into a life of Read More

It's a Wonderful World

Actors: Terence Morgan, George Cole, Kathleen Harrison, Ted Heath, James Hayter

Synopsis: No relation to the 1939 Claudette Colbert-James Stewart comedy of the same name, It's a Wonderful World is essentially a vehicle for British-based bandleader Ted Heath. The thinnish plot is set in motion by would-be songwriters Terence Morgan and George Cole, who manage to sell a tune by claiming Read More

Loser Takes All

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Glynis Johns, Robert Morley, Tony Britton, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: In this location-filmed domestic seriocomedy, Rosanno Brazzi and Glynis Johns play an accountant and his new wife, honeymooning in Monte Carlo. With the casino in full view and ready for action, the couple would be remiss if they didn't give the gaming tables a try. Besides, Brazzi is certain that Read More

The Silken Affair

Actors: David Niven, Geneviève Page, Ronald Squire, Beatrice Straight

Synopsis: Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who finds himself digging deeper and deeper into trouble. Not only is he suddenly smitten by a French model (Geneviève Page) despite his marriage to his wife (Dorothy Alison) Read More

Dry Rot

Synopsis: In this comedy three bookies attempt to win back their recent losses by kidnapping the favored horse and substituting it with a heavily drugged nag. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

It's Never Too Late

Synopsis: It's Never Too Late stars Phyllis Calvert as a sedate and settled British wife and mother. Deciding that her family has taken her for granted far too long, the bored Ms. Calvert types up a movie script. Her work becomes a hit film and Phyllis suddenly finds herself a celebrity. Now she must choose Read More

Simon and Laura

Actors: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Love, marriage and show business provide the basis of this lively comedy that centers on a husband and wife, who are chosen by television producers to embody the perfect married couple on an upcoming television series. The show is to be filmed and broadcast live from the home of Simon and Laura Read More

Tears for Simon

Actors: David Farrar, David Knight, Julia Arnall, Anthony Oliver

Synopsis: An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are panic-stricken. Detective David Farrar tries to locate the child, but clues are scarce. At the last possible moment, Farrar rescues the infant from a grueling fate and collars the Read More