# Yvonne Buckingham

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. In 1958, she played Mario's girlfriend in the comedy Next to No Time. 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.

### 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.
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. 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.

### 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.

## 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 | |