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Anna Quayle

Anna Quayle

Birth : 1932-10-06, Birmingham, England, UK

Death : 2019-08-16

History

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?

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Anna Quayle

Movies

Towers of Babel

Towers of Babel

A BAFTA award nominated black comedy about life and death in a London tower block.

Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

Alice

The life of King Henry the Fifth.

The Light Princess

The Light Princess

Makemnoit

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

Loretta Proudfoot

Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.

Adventures of a Private Eye

Adventures of a Private Eye

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.

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

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 attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.

La Pulle

A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain

Mistress Pamela

Mistress Pamela

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.

Up the Chastity Belt

Up the Chastity Belt

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...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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.

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.

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.

Drop Dead Darling

Drop Dead Darling

Aunt Miriam

Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!

The Sandwich Man

The Sandwich Man

Second Billingsgate Woman

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

A Hard Day's Night

A Hard Day's Night

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.