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Yvonne Buckingham
Yvonne Buckingham
Born	Elizabeth D Buckingham; 1937 (age 86–87); Yorkshire, England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1950s to 1980s

Yvonne Buckingham (born 1937) 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.

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

Buckingham had prominent roles in two 1961 films, A Question of Suspense and Murder in Eden. As a result, she forfeited £4,000 which might have been paid from an insurance policy she took out in 1958 when she was aged 20, against failure to become a star within five years.^[6]

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.^[7]^[8] 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.^[9]

1970s and 80s

In the late 1980s, she had a role in the Marcio Kogan, Isay Weinfeld directed film, 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.^[10]^[11]^[12]

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	Urge To Kill	Gwen Foley	Vernon Sewell	1960	Season ?, Episode ?
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	Martha Miller	Marcio Kogan, Isay Weinfeld	1988