Anna Quayle

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

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Mapp & Lucia

Olga Braceley

Lytton's Diary

Bertha

Rolling Home

Pam

Objects of Affection

Pam

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Father Charlie

Reverend Mother Joseph

Never the Twain

Isadora Beecham

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Towers of Babel

Ruby

The Best of the Adventures

Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited)

S.O.S. Titanic

Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant

Henry V

Alice

The Light Princess

Makemnoit

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

Loretta Proudfoot

Grange Hill

Mrs. Monroe

Adventures of a Private Eye

Medea Dotrice

James and the Giant Peach

Aunt Spiker

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Freda

The Georgian House

Miss Humphreys

Three for All

La Pulle

Eskimo Nell

Reverend Mother

Mistress Pamela

Mrs.Jelks

Up the Chastity Belt

Lady Ashfodel

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Baroness Bomburst

Smashing Time

Charlotte Brillig

Casino Royale

Frau Hoffner

Arrivederci, Baby!

Aunt Miriam

The Sandwich Man

Second Billingsgate Woman

A Hard Day's Night

Millie

The Merv Griffin Show

Self

The Avengers

Olga