Anna Quayle

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Anne Veronica Maria "Anna" Quayle (born October 6, 1932 in Birmingham , Warwickshire - † August 16, 2019 ) was a British actress with character roles in film, television and theater. She also starred in several well-known motion pictures in the 1960s and 1970s. Including in Yeah Yeah Yeah , Casino Royale , Tschitti Tschitti Bang Bang or No Coke for Sherlock Holmes .

life and career

Anna Quayle was born in 1936 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, to the stage actor Douglas Quayle. She grew up in a Catholic home that was heavily influenced by her Irish mother, Kathleen Parke. Through her parents, she came into contact with the theater at an early age. In the early 1960s, the tall actress (nearly six feet) played roles in the Birmingham Repertory Company in plays such as A Man For All Seasons . In 1963 she received the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in the play Stop the World - I Want to Get Off .

In 1964 Anna Quayle played her first prominent character role in a movie production in Richard Lester's comedy Yeah Yeah Yeah about the Beatles . This was followed by other roles in comedies such as Robert Hartford-Davis The Sandwich Man or Arrivederci, Baby! by director Ken Hughes . In 1967 she played as Frau Hoffner alongside fellow actors Ronnie Corbett in the lavish and star-spiked James Bond episode Casino Royale . The director Ken Hughes engaged her again in 1968 in a leading role for his musical production Tschitti Tschitti Bang Bang , where she played the part of the baroness. In the 1970s, only a few demanding productions for the cinema followed, including the comedy No Coke for Sherlock Holmes by director Herbert Ross , where she was seen in the role of Freda.

In parallel with her career on the screen, Anna Quayle also turned to television in 1965. There she had numerous TV appearances in popular British series in over 30 years from 1965 to 1999. She starred in episodes from Knock on Any Door (1965), Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone (1967), ITV Playhouse (1969), Grubstreet (1972), The Basil Brush Show (1977), Father Charlie (1982), Mapp & Lucia (1986) or Adam's Family Tree (1999). She played more complex TV roles in 1981 as Nancy Tallboys in the television miniseries Wiedersehen in Brideshead , directed by Charles Sturridge and Michael Lindsay-Hogg . In addition, she was seen from 1990 to 1994 in the television series Grange Hill in 85 episodes, where she impersonated the character of Mrs. Monroe.

From 1976 Anna Quayle was married to Donald Baker.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1964: Yeah Yeah Yeah (A Hard Day's Night)
  • 1966: The Sandwich Man
  • 1966: Arrivederci, baby! (Drop Dead Darling)
  • 1967: Casino Royale
  • 1967: Smashing Time
  • 1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
  • 1971: Up the Chastity Belt
  • 1974: Mistress Pamela
  • 1975: Eskimo Nell
  • 1975: Three for All
  • 1976: No coke for Sherlock Holmes (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)
  • 1977: My dear boss, you are a bottle (Adventures of a Private Eye)
  • 1978: Benny the Unlucky (Adventures of a Plumber's Mate)

watch TV

  • 1965: Knock on Any Door (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1967: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1969: Girls About Town (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1969: ITV Playhouse (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1972: Grubstreet (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1975: Jackanory Playhouse (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1976: The Georgian House (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1977: What a Performance (TV movie)
  • 1977: The Basil Brush Show (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1978: The Light Princess (TV movie)
  • 1979: SOS Titanic (TV movie)
  • 1979: The Life of Henry the Fifth (TV movie)
  • 1981: Brideshead Head (Brideshead Revisited) (TV miniseries)
  • 1982: Father Charlie (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1982: Never the Twain (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1982: Objects of Affection (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1986: Lytton's Diary (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1986: Mapp & Lucia (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1987: Kin of the Castle (TV movie)
  • 1990–1994: Grange Hill (TV series, 85 episodes as Mrs. Monroe)
  • 1999: Adam's Family Tree (TV series, 1 episode)

Short film

  • 1981: Towers of Babel

literature

  • Screen International Film and TV Year Book , Screen International, King Publications Limited, 1990, p. 186 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: Anna Quayle - 'versatile actor admired for her dramatic panache and comedic subtlety'. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ruth Benjamin, Arthur Rosenblatt: Who Sang what on Broadway, 1866-1996: The singers (LZ) . McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub, 2006, p. 621 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Plays and Players , Volume 8, Hansom Books, 1960 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ Colin Larkin : The encyclopedia of popular music . Volume 7. Muze, London 1998, p. 5176 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1961-1970: F6 (AFI Catalog) , University of California Press, 1997, p. 525 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Quayle, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quayle, Anne Veronica Maria (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , Warwickshire, England, UK
DATE OF DEATH 16th August 2019