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Anna Quayle

1932 - 2019 (age 86) • Acting

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?

Known For

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

68%

Baroness Bomburst

1968

The Avengers

78%

Olga

1961

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

42%

Loretta Proudfoot

1978

Grange Hill

67%

Mrs. Monroe

1978

Up the Chastity Belt

41%

Lady Ashfodel

1972

Arrivederci, Baby!

59%

Aunt Miriam

1966

Smashing Time

63%

Charlotte Brillig

1967

The Merv Griffin Show

68%

Self

1962

Rolling Home

Pam

1982

Objects of Affection

80%

Pam

1982

Father Charlie

75%

Reverend Mother Joseph

1982

Never the Twain

70%

Isadora Beecham

1981

Towers of Babel

70%

Ruby

1981

The Best of the Adventures

63%

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

1981

S.O.S. Titanic

60%

Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant

1980

Henry V

62%

Alice

1979

The Light Princess

70%

Makemnoit

1978

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

42%

Loretta Proudfoot

1978

Grange Hill

67%

Mrs. Monroe

1978

Adventures of a Private Eye

43%

Medea Dotrice

1977

James and the Giant Peach

60%

Aunt Spiker

1976

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

62%

Freda

1976

The Georgian House

75%

Miss Humphreys

1976

Three for All

33%

La Pulle

1975

Eskimo Nell

40%

Reverend Mother

1975

Mistress Pamela

70%

Mrs.Jelks

1974

Up the Chastity Belt

41%

Lady Ashfodel

1972

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

68%

Baroness Bomburst

1968

Smashing Time

63%

Charlotte Brillig

1967

Casino Royale

52%

Frau Hoffner

1967

Arrivederci, Baby!

59%

Aunt Miriam

1966

The Sandwich Man

65%

Second Billingsgate Woman

1966

A Hard Day's Night

73%

Millie

1964

The Merv Griffin Show

68%

Self

1962

The Avengers

78%

Olga

1961

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