Career
She starred opposite Sean Connery in the 1961 film The Frightened City. McFarland"s television appearances included The Sweeney, The Troubleshooters, The Champions and Dixon of Dock Green and she also had a film role in Alive and Kicking (1959). She left acting to restore properties and breed horses, in 1998 following an RSPCA inspection of her farm she was found guilty of neglecting her horses and received a one-month suspended jail sentence.
In January 2010 she moved to a care home at Eye, Suffolk not far from her farm at Creeting Street Mary near Needham Market and was killed in an accident at a nearby railway crossing the following year.
