Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1922-12-26 (73 years old)
Deathday
1995-04-04
Place of Birth
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Also known As
Shawn Smith
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 sh...
1958
as Ann Anderson
1954
as Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)
1957
as Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway
1943
as Bellhop at Amazon Hotel for Women
1956
as Elaine
1943
as Lola (bargirl)
1943
as Linda Page
1947
as Janet Hadley
1943
as Nancy
1945
as Nurse Thorsen
1946
as Robin Ryan
1946
as J.C. Morgan
1943
as Perkins, the Secretary
1944
as Alice Morton
1943
as Michele Darcy
1942
as Sheila Taylor
1942
as Katherine Webb
1943
as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)
1942
as June Rogers
1943
as Josephine
1943
as Secretary
1943
as Telephone Operator
1942
as Chambermaid
1946
as Terry Lawrence
1942
as Lydia Rogers
1942
as Gail Holloway
1954
as Poppaea (uncredited)
1942
as Miss Cole, secretary
1943
as Bride (uncredited)
1944
as Mary Saunders
1945
as WAC Brooks
1954
as Elsie (uncredited)
1942
as Nurse Bentley
1943
as Girl (uncredited)
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