
Anna Quayle
Acting
🎂 1932-10-06
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?
Cast credits(28)

Self
1962

Mrs. Monroe
1978

Olga
1961

Alice
1978

Isadora Beecham
1981

Nancy Tallboys
1981
Reverend Mother Joseph
1982

Frau Hoffner
1967

Baroness Bomburst
1968

Pam
1982

Millie
1964

Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant
1980

Freda
1976

Charlotte Brillig
1967

Aunt Miriam
1966

Second Billingsgate Woman
1966

Medea Dotrice
1977

Reverend Mother
1975

Alice
1979
Miss Humphreys
1976

Loretta Proudfoot
1978

La Pulle
1975

Lady Ashfodel
1972

Mrs.Jelks
1974

Aunt Spiker
1976

Pam
1982
Ruby
1981

Makemnoit
1978