Person Details

Birthday: 1922-12-26 22:11:23

Death: 1995-04-04 22:11:23

Aliases: Shawn Smith

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Movie Involvements: 25

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Patterson began her acting career after being a beauty contestant in pageants in California in 1940. She graduated from the Mar-Ken School in Sherman Oaks, California in 1941, and shortly thereafter she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her career spanned forty films, a small quantity of television appearances, and a serial. A beautiful woman in her youth, Patterson played the role of heroine in the 1943 fifteen chapter Batman serial. In 1944 she starred in The Vigilantes Ride alongside Russell Hayden and Bob Wills. In 1946 she accompanied Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates in the film Driftin River, and starred with them again that same year in Tumbleweed Trail. Two of her last films was the 1957 movie The Land Unknown, and the 1958 Sci-Fi film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which also starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan who played a monster from outer space. Patterson had a long fight with cancer in her later years, and died in 1995 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Shirley Patterson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Maigret
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7

Maigret

(1960) Maid
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
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6

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

(1958) Ann Anderson
Batman
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6

Batman

(1943) Linda Page
The Long Wait
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6

The Long Wait

(1954) Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
World Without End
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6

World Without End

(1956) Elaine
The Land Unknown
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6

The Land Unknown

(1957) Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
The Texas Kid
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5

The Texas Kid

(1943) Nancy
The Silver Chalice
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5

The Silver Chalice

(1954) Poppaea (uncredited)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1960 Maid
1958 Ann Anderson
1957 Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
1956 Elaine
1954 Poppaea (uncredited)
Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
Elsie (uncredited)
1952 Betty Maxwell
1947 Janet Hadley
1946 Terry Lawrence
J.C. Morgan
Robin Ryan
1945 WAC Brooks
Nurse Thorsen
1944 Mary Saunders
Alice Morton
1943 N/A
Nancy
Lola (bargirl)
Bride
Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
Josephine
Linda Page
Secretary
Michele Darcy
Telephone Operator
Bellhop at Amazon Hotel for Women
1942 Gail Holloway
June Rogers
Chambermaid
Nurse Bentley
Miss Cole, secretary
Katherine Webb
Sheila Taylor
Lydia Rogers
Year Character Movie/Tv

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