Anna Quayle

Birthday:: 10/06/1932
Place of birth:: Birmingham, England, UK:
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

	Rolling Home (1982) as Pam
	Towers of Babel (1981) as Ruby
	The Best of the Adventures (1981) as Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited)
	S.O.S. Titanic (1980) as Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant
	Henry V (1979) as Alice
	The Light Princess (1978) as Makemnoit
	Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978) as Loretta Proudfoot
	Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) as Medea Dotrice
	James and the Giant Peach (1976) as Aunt Spiker
	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Freda
	Three for All (1975) as La Pulle
	Eskimo Nell (1975) as Reverend Mother
	Mistress Pamela (1974) as Mrs.Jelks
	Up the Chastity Belt (1972) as Lady Ashfodel
	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as Baroness Bomburst
	Smashing Time (1967) as Charlotte Brillig
	Casino Royale (1967) as Frau Hoffner
	Arrivederci, Baby! (1966) as Aunt Miriam
	The Sandwich Man (1966) as Second Billingsgate Woman
	A Hard Day's Night (1964) as Millie