Yvonne Buckingham

Yvonne Buckingham is an English actress who appeared in a number of minor or background roles on episodes of British television series or in British films. She played the title role, though only briefly appearing as the deceased victim, in the 1959 film Sapphire, but did appear in the lead role as Christine Keeler (who was not allowed to play herself) in the critically panned 1963 film The Christine Keeler Story.

Yvonne Buckingham
Born
Elizabeth D Buckingham

1937
Yorkshire, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationActress
Years active1950s to 1980s

Career

1950s

In an early role, Buckingham played the part of a saloon girl in the Jack Lee direct film Robbery Under Arms.[1] In 1958, she played Mario's girlfriend in the comedy Next to No Time.[2] In 1959, Buckingham played the eponymous role in the film Sapphire about a young woman found murdered on Hampstead Heath, but she did not have a speaking part and appears only briefly, as a dead body and in photographs.[3][4][5]

1960s

In 1962, she had a minor background role as “pretty girl” in the Neo Noir film, The Frightened City. In 1963, Buckingham played the lead role in The Keeler Affair, a film about Christine Keeler.[6][7] Before Buckingham had secured the role, it was offered to Keeler who accepted it but because the Actors Equity did not accept her application, it meant that the other cast members could not perform with her.[8]

1970s and 80s

In the late 1980s, she had a role in the Marcio Kogan, Isay Weinfeld directed fim, Fogo e Paixão, which was a film about a bus tour through São Paulo where strange people are encountered. One of the tourists, a Japanese man called Kankeo (played by Ken Kaneko), filmed the event and shows it to his friends when he returns home.[9][10][11]

Filmography
Television
Title Episode # Role Director Year Notes #
ITV Television Playhouse The Heat of the Evening Muriel David Boisseau 1958 Season 4, Episode 15
Inside Story A Girl for George Gloria 1960 Season 1, Episode 5
Arthur's Treasured Volumes A Slight Case of Deception Cynthia 1960 Season 1, Episode 5
The Benny Hill Show Episode #5.1 Various roles 1961 Season 5, Episode 1
Sir Francis Drake Mission to Paris Heloise David Greene 1962 Season 1, Episode 20
Z Cars Winner Take All Pam Eric Hills 1962 Season 1, Episode 19
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre The Sinister Man Miss Russell Clive Donner 1961 Season 2, Episode 7
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre Solo for Sparrow Jenny Gordon Flemyng 1962 Season 3, Episode 5
No Hiding Place Corpse for the Cup Nora Heneghan Richard Doubleday, Richard Sidwell 1962 Season 4, Episode 26
The Valiant Varneys Episode #1.9 Peter Whitmore 1962 Season 1, Episode 9
Film
Title Role Director Year Notes #
Robbery Under Arms Saloon Girl Jack Lee 1957
Grip of the Strangler Whore Robert Day 1958
Next to No Time Mario's Girl Friend Henry Cornelius 1958
Blood of the Vampire Serving Wench Henry Cass 1958
Passport to Shame Tart Alvin Rakoff 1958
The Captain's Table Yvonne Jack Lee 1959
Room at the Top Girl at Window Jack Clayton 1959
No Trees in the Street Girl J. Lee Thompson 1959
Sapphire Sapphire Robbins Basil Dearden 1959
Desert Mice Waitress Michael Ralph 1959
Our Man in Havana Woman Carol Reed 1959
Urge to Kill Gwen Vernon Sewell 1960
The Tell-Tale Heart Mina Ernest Morris 1960
The Frightened City Pretty girl at 'Taboo Club' John Lemont 1961
The Sinister Man Miss Russell Clive Donner 1961
Murder in Eden Vicky Wolf Max Varnel 1961
A Question of Suspense Jean Forbes Max Varnel 1961
Solo for Sparrow Jenny Gordon Flemyng 1962
A Kind of Loving Barmaid John Schlesinger 1962
The Keeler Affair Christine Keeler Robert Spafford 1963 Title role
Missão: Matar Iracema Freire Campos Alberto Pieralisi 1972
Fogo e Paixão Marcio Kogan, Isay Weinfeld 1988
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References
  1. Movie Westerns: Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West by John Howard Reid Page 126 Robbery Under Arms
  2. LETTERBOXD Next to No Time
  3. The Baltimore Afro-American 14 November 1959 Page 19 AS SAPPHIRE
  4. The Baltimore Afro-American 21 November 1959 Page 26 SAPPHIRE IS a mystery girl
  5. The BFI Companion to Crime By Phil Hardy Page 294 Le Samouraï – Scandal, Sapphire
  6. Filmkritik, Volume 8 – Filmkritiker Kooperative, 1964 Page 222
  7. Scandinavian Blue By Jack Stevenson Page 49
  8. The Age 3 April 1963 Page 3 Australians Can See Keeler Film
  9. International Film Guide, 1990 Page 95
  10. 39ª MOSTRA Fogo e Paixão, Fogo e Paixão
  11. Imdb Fogo e Paixão (1988)
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