Name
Anna Quayle
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-10-06
Deathday
2019-08-16 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Biography
Anne Veronica Maria Quayle (6 October 1932 – 16 August 2019) was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary High School, Harlesden. She has appeared on film, on stage and on television. Her film appearances include Smashing Time (1967), a short but memorable scene that she shares with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night (1964), the German expressionist sequence of Casino Royale (1967) and in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as Baroness Bomburst. In 1963, Quayle appeared on Broadway in the original production of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off opposite Anthony Newley, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Supporting Musical Actress. Other television work includes the comedy drama Mapp and Lucia, the children's science fiction series The Georgian House and Grange Hill where she played the role of Mrs Monroe from 1990–94. In 1973, she appeared as a regular panellist on the popular BBC2 panel game show What's My Line?
Known For
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Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, ...
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Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifyi...
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Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travellin...
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While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes...
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A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard C...
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Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy...
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Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by ...
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Nick Johnson has wed several times, but all his rich wives were 'accidentally' killed afte...
- 1964 A Hard Day's Night as Millie
- 1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baroness Bomburst
- 1967 Casino Royale as Frau Hoffner
- 1976 James and the Giant Peach as Aunt Spiker
- 1978 Adventures of a Plumber's Mate as Loretta Proudfoot
- 1979 Henry V as Alice
- 1981 Towers of Babel as Ruby
- 1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Freda
- 1966 Arrivederci, Baby! as Aunt Miriam
- 1980 S.O.S. Titanic as Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant
- 1967 Smashing Time as Charlotte Brillig
- 1966 The Sandwich Man as Second Billingsgate Woman
- 1978 The Light Princess as Makemnoit
- 1974 Mistress Pamela as Mrs.Jelks
- 1977 Adventures of a Private Eye as Medea Dotrice
- 1972 Up the Chastity Belt as Lady Ashfodel
- 1975 Three for All as La Pulle
- 1982 Rolling Home as Pam
- 1975 Eskimo Nell as Reverend Mother
- 1981 The Best of the Adventures as Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1978 Grange Hill ( 100 episodes ) as Mrs. Monroe
- 1961 The Avengers ( 1 episode ) as Olga
- 1982 Father Charlie ( 6 episodes ) as Reverend Mother Joseph
- 1982 Objects of Affection ( 1 episode ) as Pam
- 1981 Never the Twain ( 1 episode ) as Isadora Beecham
- 1976 The Georgian House ( 2 episodes ) as Miss Humphreys
- 1985 Mapp & Lucia ( 1 episode ) as Olga Braceley
- 1985 Lytton's Diary ( 1 episode ) as Bertha
- 1977 The Sound of Laughter ( 1 episode ) as Vera
