| Shirley Jaffe | |
| Birth Place: | Hendon, England |
| Death Date: | October 2022 (aged 87–88) |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 1954–2023 |
| Television: | Little Britain The First Lady Emergency-Ward 10 |
Shirley Jaffe (born Shirley M. Jacobs; 1934 – October 2022) was a British actress. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, before embarking on a career on stage and screen, most famously appearing in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. After a lengthy break raising a family, she returned to professional acting in 2002.
Shirley M. Jacobs was born in Hendon in 1934.[1] [2] She trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama in 1954, and among other jobs was in the first British Theatre in the Round Company at Scarborough with Stephen Joseph and later Alan Ayckbourn, and in the last year of long running TV serial Emergency Ward 10 as Nurse Angela Foster.
Her film career began in 1970 as a maid in Peter Sasdy's Taste the Blood of Dracula. In 1971 she made a brief appearance in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange. Some sources erroneously identify her as the Billy Boy's gang victim, but she played a nurse who helps administer the first round of Ludovico's treatment to Alex (Malcolm McDowell). Skybreak, the home she then shared with her husband Tony, was also featured in the film, as the interior location for the scene in which Alex's gang attacks a writer and his wife (played by Patrick Magee and Adrienne Corri) in A Clockwork Orange was Shirley's last film appearance for close to 35 years.
Jaffe appeared on television in Michael Jackson's Earth Song music video, and as a Greek nun in Little Britain Abroad. She directed and acted in plays in Brighton, Edinburgh, The West End and Helsinki festivals and most recently played Irene in award-winning British feature Ambleton Delight. She was nominated for a Star award in the Brighton Fringe for her performance as "Nana" in the new musical, Here Comes the Bride.[3]
Jaffe died in October 2022.[4] [5]
| 2020 | A Safe Place | Margaret | ||
| 2018 | Nurse Shirley Foster | Shirley Foster | Short | |
| 2017 | Autumn Patrol | Church Woman | Short | |
| 2014 | Home for Christmas | Mrs. Blackstick | ||
| 2014 | Bloom | Old Woman | Short | |
| 2009 | Ambleton Delight | Irene Phillips | ||
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | Nurse | ||
| 1970 | Taste the Blood of Dracula | Hargood's Maid | ||
| 1956 | The Secret Tent | Girl in remand home | Uncredited | |
| 1954 | The Passing Stranger | Uncredited |
| 2017 | Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults | Margarert | Episode: SOVA 1 | |
| 2006 | Little Britain | Episodes: Little Britain Aboard: Part 1, Little Britain Abroad: Part 2 | ||
| 1977 | Secret Army | Mrs. Schliemann | Episode: Radishes with Butter | |
| 1973 | Softly Softly: Task Force | Miss Daniels | Episode: Interrogation | |
| 1969 | The First Lady | Miss Sims | Episode: I'm Talking About Us | |
| 1966–1967 | Emergency–Ward 10 | Nurse Foster | Episodes: Heaven Is a Little Farther, A Family Likeness, Second Sight, Hide Me Hide Me,A Step in the Right Direction, Go West Young Man |