Anna Quayle

Known for ActingBorn 1932-10-06Died 2019-08-16Birmingham, England, UK

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?Read more

Movies & web series

Objects of Affection

The Avengers

Lytton's Diary

Father Charlie

The Georgian House

A Hard Day's Night

Towers of Babel

The Light Princess

Never the Twain

Mistress Pamela

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Grange Hill

The Merv Griffin Show

The Sandwich Man

The Best of the Adventures

Mapp & Lucia

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Henry V

Smashing Time

S.O.S. Titanic

James and the Giant Peach

Arrivederci, Baby!

Casino Royale

Adventures of a Private Eye

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

Up the Chastity Belt

Eskimo Nell

Three for All

Rolling Home