Anna Quayle
Actor
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
A Hard Day's Night
as Millie 1964
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
as Baroness Bomburst 1968
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Freda 1976
S.O.S. Titanic
as Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant 1980
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
as Loretta Proudfoot 1978
Eskimo Nell
as Reverend Mother 1975
Adventures of a Private Eye
as Medea Dotrice 1977
Up the Chastity Belt
as Lady Ashfodel 1972
Arrivederci, Baby!
as Aunt Miriam 1966
Smashing Time
as Charlotte Brillig 1967
The Sandwich Man
as Second Billingsgate Woman 1966
Henry V
as Alice 1979
Three for All
as La Pulle 1975
The Best of the Adventures
as Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited) 1981
James and the Giant Peach
as Aunt Spiker 1976
Towers of Babel
as Ruby 1981