Anna Quayle

Acting

Anna Quayle

Born 1932-10-06 · Birmingham, 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?

Acting credits

Casino Royale poster
5.3

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.

Casino Royale

1967

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang poster
6.8

A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968

A Hard Day's Night poster
7.3

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.

A Hard Day's Night

1964

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution poster
6.2

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

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976

S.O.S. Titanic poster
6.0

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

S.O.S. Titanic

1980

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate poster
4.2

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

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

1978

Adventures of a Private Eye poster
4.3

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.

Adventures of a Private Eye

1977

The Best of the Adventures poster
6.3

A feature-length compilation of the funniest and naughtiest bits from the legendary 1970s 'Adventures of a...' series!

The Best of the Adventures

1981

Three for All poster
3.3

A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain

Three for All

1975

Up the Chastity Belt poster
4.1

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...

Up the Chastity Belt

1972

Smashing Time poster
6.3

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Smashing Time

1967

Arrivederci, Baby! poster
5.9

Nick Johnson has wed several times, but all his rich wives were 'accidentally' killed after some time. Now he's married a young Italian widow, but she's not so easy to get rid of, especially when she learns of his plans and tries to turn the tables.

Arrivederci, Baby!

1966

Mistress Pamela poster
7.0

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.

Mistress Pamela

1974

No artwork available
7.0

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

Towers of Babel

1981

The Sandwich Man poster
6.5

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

The Sandwich Man

1966

Eskimo Nell poster
4.0

Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring a big woman - the "Eskimo Nell" of the title. However problems start from the beginning, the scriptwriter is a virgin, a lover of penguins and hasn't a clue on how to write an erotic movie, each of the three main backers want a different type of movie - a western, an erotic and a kung-fu movie with different people in the main part. However problems really start for the three when Benny runs off with all the money and they have to make three different versions of the same film and try not to let the backers and stars know what has happened. And this is made harder when there is a clean-up-filth society breathing down their necks....

Eskimo Nell

1975

The Light Princess poster
7.0

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

The Light Princess

1978

James and the Giant Peach poster
6.0

A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.

James and the Giant Peach

1976

Henry V poster
6.2

Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned King Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days behind, and prove himself as a leader.

Henry V

1979

Rolling Home poster
NR

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.

Rolling Home

1982