Anna Quayle
Anna Quayle ( born October 6, 1936 in Birmingham, Warwickshire ) is a British actress with character roles in film, television and theater. She played in the 1960s and 1970s in several well-known movies. Below in Yeah Yeah Yeah, Casino Royale, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or No coke for Sherlock Holmes.
Life and career
Anna Quayle was born in 1936 in Birmingham in the county of Warwickshire in England, the daughter of stage actor Douglas Quayle. She grew up in a Catholic home, which was heavily influenced by their Irish mother Kathleen Parke. Through her parents, she came early to the theater in contact. At the beginning of the 1960s played the tall actress (nearly 1.80 m tall ) roles in the Birmingham Repertory Company in such plays as A Man For All Seasons. In 1963 she was awarded with the Tony Award in the category Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in the play Stop the World - I Want to Get Off honored.
1964 Anna Quayle then played in Richard Lester's film comedy Yeah Yeah Yeah about the Beatles their first distinctive character role in a theatrical production. It was followed by other roles in comedies such as in Robert Hartford -Davis The Sandwich Man or Arrivederci, Baby! directed by Ken Hughes. In 1967, she played as a woman next to Hoffner castmates Ronnie Corbett in the complex and spiked with stars James Bond spoof Casino Royale. The director Ken Hughes hired her again in 1968 in a supporting role for his musical production Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, where she played the part of the Baroness. In the 1970s, followed only a few challenging productions for the cinema, including the comedy from director Herbert Ross No coke for Sherlock Holmes, where she was seen in the role of Freda.
Parallel to her career on the big screen, Anna Quayle in 1965 also turned to television. There she had in over 30 years from 1965 to 1999, numerous TV appearances in the popular British series. She played among others in episodes of Knock on Any Door ( 1965), The Avengers and melon (1967 ), ITV Playhouse (1969 ), Grub Street ( 1972), The Basil Brush Show (1977 ), Father Charlie ( 1982) Mapp & Lucia ( 1986) or Adam 's Family Tree (1999). More complex television roles she played in 1981 as Nancy Tallboys in the television miniseries Brideshead Head, 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 played the character of Mrs. Monroe.
Since 1976, Anna Quayle is married to Donald Baker.