Anna Quayle

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.4178

Gender

Female

Birthday

06-Oct-1932

Age

(94 years old)

Place of Birth

Birmingham, England, UK

Also Known As
  • Anne Veronica Maria Quayle

Anna Quayle

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?


Credits

The Light Princess The Light Princess (1978) Character: Makemnoit
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Mistress Pamela Mistress Pamela (1974) Character: Mrs.Jelks
Loosely bases on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, this is the story of Pamela who goes to work in the kitchen of Lord Devenish who is determined to rape her.
The Best of the Adventures The Best of the Adventures (1981) Character: Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited)
A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s’ Adventures of series!
Towers of Babel Towers of Babel (1981) Character: Ruby
A BAFTA award nominated black comedy about life and death in a London tower block.
James and the Giant Peach James and the Giant Peach (1976) Character: Aunt Spiker
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
Rolling Home Rolling Home (1982) Character: Pam
Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.
Adventures of a Private Eye Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) Character: Medea Dotrice
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.
Arrivederci, Baby! Arrivederci, Baby! (1966) Character: Aunt Miriam
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
S.O.S. Titanic S.O.S. Titanic (1980) Character: Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
A Hard Day's Night A Hard Day's Night (1964) Character: Millie
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978) Character: Loretta Proudfoot
Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.
Smashing Time Smashing Time (1967) Character: Charlotte Brillig
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Casino Royale Casino Royale (1967) Character: Frau Hoffner
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Eskimo Nell Eskimo Nell (1975) Character: Reverend Mother
Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginning, the scriptwriter is a virgin, a lover of penguins and hasn't a clue on how to write an erotic movie, each of the three main backers want a different type of movie - a western, an erotic and a kung-fu movie with different people in the main part. However problems really start for the three when Benny runs off with all the money and they have to make three different versions of the same film and try not to let the backers and stars know what has happened. And this is made harder when there is a clean-up-filth society breathing down their necks....
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) Character: Freda
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Up the Chastity Belt Up the Chastity Belt (1972) Character: Lady Ashfodel
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...
The Sandwich Man The Sandwich Man (1966) Character: Second Billingsgate Woman
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Henry V Henry V (1979) Character: Alice
Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned King Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days behind, and prove himself as a leader.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) Character: Baroness Bomburst
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Three for All Three for All (1975) Character: La Pulle
A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain



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