- Anna Quayle
Infobox actor
name = Anna Quayle
imagesize = 180px
caption =
spouse = Don Baker
birthdate = birth date and age|1936|10|6
location =London ,England
tonyawards = Best Featured Actress in a Musical
1963 "Stop the World - I Want to Get Off "Anna Quayle (born
6 October 1936 ) is an English actress. She is of Irish descent, from her mother's side of the family.She has appeared in TV, Film and Theatre. Her film appearances include "
Smashing Time ", a short but notable (not to say strange) scene that she shares withJohn 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) asBaroness Bomburst .She appeared on Broadway in the original production of "
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off " opposite the lateAnthony Newley . It is for this in 1963 that she won aTony Award - for Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical).Quayle's other TV work includes the comedy drama "
Mapp and Lucia " and "Grange Hill " where she played the role of teacher, Mrs Monroe between 1990 to 1994.In 1973 she appeared as a regular panellist on the popular
BBC2 panel game show "What's My Line?"References
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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/photogallery/kenneth-williams8.shtml photo of Anna Quayle on the "What's My Line?" panel]
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