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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?

Known For

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Pam

Rolling Home

1982

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Pam

Objects of Affection

1982

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Reverend Mother Joseph

Father Charlie

1982

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Nancy Tallboys

Brideshead Revisited

1981

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Isadora Beecham

Never the Twain

1981

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Ruby

Towers of Babel

1981

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Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant

S.O.S. Titanic

1980

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Alice

Henry V

1979

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Makemnoit

The Light Princess

1978

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Alice

The BBC Television Shakespeare

1978

Credits

Rolling Home

as Pam

1982

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Objects of Affection

as Pam

1982

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Father Charlie

as Reverend Mother Joseph

1982

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Brideshead Revisited

as Nancy Tallboys

1981

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Never the Twain

as Isadora Beecham

1981

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🎬

Towers of Babel

as Ruby

1981

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S.O.S. Titanic

as Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant

1980

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Henry V

as Alice

1979

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The Light Princess

as Makemnoit

1978

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The BBC Television Shakespeare

as Alice

1978

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Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

as Loretta Proudfoot

1978

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Grange Hill

as Mrs. Monroe

1978

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Adventures of a Private Eye

as Medea Dotrice

1977

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James and the Giant Peach

as Aunt Spiker

1976

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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

as Freda

1976

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Three for All

as La Pulle

1975

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Mistress Pamela

as Mrs.Jelks

1974

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Up the Chastity Belt

as Lady Ashfodel

1972

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

as Baroness Bomburst

1968

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Smashing Time

as Charlotte Brillig

1967

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Casino Royale

as Frau Hoffner

1967

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Arrivederci, Baby!

as Aunt Miriam

1966

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The Sandwich Man

as Second Billingsgate Woman

1966

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A Hard Day's Night

as Millie

1964

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The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

1962

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The Avengers

as Olga

1961

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