Anna Quayle

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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?

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1985
Mapp & Lucia
TV show Olga Braceley
1985
Lytton's Diary
TV show Bertha
1982
Rolling Home
Movie Pam
1982
Objects of Affection
TV show Pam
1982
Father Charlie
TV show Reverend Mother Joseph
1981
Never the Twain
TV show Isadora Beecham
1981
Towers of Babel
Movie Ruby
1981
The Best of the Adventures
Movie Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited)
1980
S.O.S. Titanic
Movie Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant
1979
Henry V
Movie Alice
1978
The Light Princess
Movie Makemnoit
1978
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
Movie Loretta Proudfoot
1978
Grange Hill
TV show Mrs. Monroe
1977
The Sound of Laughter
TV show Vera
1977
Adventures of a Private Eye
Movie Medea Dotrice
1976
James and the Giant Peach
Movie Aunt Spiker