Shirley Patterson
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1922-12-26
Day of Death
1995-04-04 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Shirley Patterson
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1958)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
as Ann Anderson
(1957)
The Land Unknown
as Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
(1956)
World Without End
as Elaine
(1954)
The Silver Chalice
as Poppaea (uncredited)
(1954)
The Long Wait
as Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
(1954)
The French Line
as Elsie (uncredited)
(1947)
Black Hills
as Janet Hadley
(1946)
Driftin' River
as J.C. Morgan
(1946)
Stars Over Texas
as Terry Lawrence
(1946)
Tumbleweed Trail
as Robin Ryan
(1945)
Keep Your Powder Dry
as WAC Brooks
(1945)
Between Two Women
as Nurse Thorsen
(1944)
Marriage Is a Private Affair
as Mary Saunders
(1944)
Riding West
as Alice Morton
(1943)
Batman
as Linda Page
(1943)
The More the Merrier
as Girl (uncredited)
(1943)
Dangerous Blondes
as Bride (uncredited)
(1943)
Destroyer
as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
(1943)
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as Secretary
(1943)
The Texas Kid
as Nancy
(1943)
Phony Express
as Lola (bargirl)
(1943)
Spook Louder
as Perkins, the Secretary
(1943)
(1943)
Law of the Northwest
as Michele Darcy
(1943)
A Maid Made Mad
as Bellhop at Amazon Hotel for Women
(1943)
Redhead from Manhattan
as Telephone Operator
(1943)
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
as Josephine
(1942)
North of the Rockies
as Lydia Rogers
(1942)
Parachute Nurse
as Katherine Webb
(1942)
Lucky Legs
as Chambermaid
(1942)
The Spirit of Stanford
as June Rogers
(1942)
A Man's World
as Nurse Bentley
(1942)
Riders of the Northland
as Sheila Taylor
(1942)
Riding Through Nevada
as Gail Holloway
(1942)
Sabotage Squad
as Miss Cole, secretary