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.
In an early role, Buckingham played the part of a saloon girl in the Jack Lee direct film Robbery Under Arms.
[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.
[6] In 1962, she had a minor background role as “pretty girl” in the Neo Noir film, The Frightened City.
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.