Shirley Patterson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1922-12-26 (73 years old)

Deathday

1995-04-04

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 sh...

Acting

1954

The Long Wait

as Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)

1957

The Land Unknown

as Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway

1943

A Maid Made Mad

as Bellhop at Amazon Hotel for Women

1956

1943

Phony Express

as Lola (bargirl)

1943

Batman

as Linda Page

1947

Black Hills

as Janet Hadley

1943

1945

Between Two Women

as Nurse Thorsen

1946

Tumbleweed Trail

as Robin Ryan

1946

Driftin' River

as J.C. Morgan

1943

Spook Louder

as Perkins, the Secretary

1944

Riding West

as Alice Morton

1943

Law of the Northwest

as Michele Darcy

1942

Riders of the Northland

as Sheila Taylor

1942

Parachute Nurse

as Katherine Webb

1943

Destroyer

as Bigbee's Girl (uncredited)

1942

1943

1943

1943

Redhead from Manhattan

as Telephone Operator

1942

Lucky Legs

as Chambermaid

1946

Stars Over Texas

as Terry Lawrence

1942

North of the Rockies

as Lydia Rogers

1942

Riding Through Nevada

as Gail Holloway

1954

The Silver Chalice

as Poppaea (uncredited)

1942

Sabotage Squad

as Miss Cole, secretary

1943

Dangerous Blondes

as Bride (uncredited)

1944

1945

1954

The French Line

as Elsie (uncredited)

1942

A Man's World

as Nurse Bentley

1943

The More the Merrier

as Girl (uncredited)

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