Anna Quayle
Acting
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?
Filmography 29
Movies (20)
Rolling Home1982Pam- Towers of Babel1981Ruby
The Best of the Adventures1981Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited)
S.O.S. Titanic1980Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant
Henry V1979Alice
The Light Princess1978Makemnoit
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate1978Loretta Proudfoot
Adventures of a Private Eye1977Medea Dotrice
James and the Giant Peach1976Aunt Spiker
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution1976Freda
Three for All1975La Pulle
Eskimo Nell1975Reverend Mother
Mistress Pamela1974Mrs.Jelks
Up the Chastity Belt1972Lady Ashfodel
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang1968Baroness Bomburst
Smashing Time1967Charlotte Brillig
Casino Royale1967Frau Hoffner
Arrivederci, Baby!1966Aunt Miriam
The Sandwich Man1966Second Billingsgate Woman
A Hard Day's Night1964Millie
Shows (9)
Mapp & Lucia1985Olga Braceley
Lytton's Diary1985Bertha
Objects of Affection1982Pam- Father Charlie1982Reverend Mother Joseph
Never the Twain1981Isadora Beecham
Grange Hill1978Mrs. Monroe
The Georgian House1976Miss Humphreys
The Merv Griffin Show1962Self
The Avengers1961Olga