Shirley Patterson
Actor
- Born
- December 26, 1922 · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Died
- April 4, 1995 (age 72)
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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.
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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.
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Known for
Batman
July 16, 1943
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
July 31, 1958
The More the Merrier
May 13, 1943
World Without End
March 25, 1956
The Harvey Girls
January 18, 1946
The Land Unknown
October 15, 1957
The Silver Chalice
December 20, 1954
The Long Wait
May 26, 1954
Destroyer
August 19, 1943
Phony Express
November 18, 1943
The French Line
February 8, 1954
Spook Louder
April 2, 1943
Acting37
- 2021Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies as Self (archive footage)
- 1958It! The Terror from Beyond Space as Ann Anderson
- 1957The Land Unknown as Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
- 1956World Without End as Elaine
- 1954The Silver Chalice as Poppaea (uncredited)
- 1954The Long Wait as Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
- 1954The French Line as Elsie (uncredited)
- 1947Black Hills as Janet Hadley
- 1946Stars Over Texas as Terry Lawrence
- 1946