Anna Quayle
Also Known As: Anne Veronica Maria Quayle
Biography: 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?
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Birmingham, England, UK
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Birthday: October 06, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 16, 2019
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A Hard Day's Night
Overview: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Overview: A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Genres: Family Music Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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James and the Giant Peach
Overview: A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
Genres: Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-28
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Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
Overview: Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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Henry V
Overview: The life of King Henry the Fifth.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-23
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Towers of Babel
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated black comedy about life and death in a London tower block.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Overview: Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-24
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Arrivederci, Baby!
Overview: Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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S.O.S. Titanic
Overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Smashing Time
Overview: Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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The Sandwich Man
Overview: A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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The Light Princess
Overview: Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-24
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Mistress Pamela
Overview: Loosely bases on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, this is the story of Pamela who goes to work in the kitchen of Lord Devenish who is determined to rape her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Adventures of a Private Eye
Overview: While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-04
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Up the Chastity Belt
Overview: A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-14
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Three for All
Overview: A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-01
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Rolling Home
Overview: Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and Molly, and Molly's husband Harold, and looked after by the ward's two male nurses, Vic and Donald, who are in competition for a promotion. Donald needs the money as he and his girlfriend are trying to buy a house but are having difficulty arranging a mortgage. From the window at which he sits, Mr Wyman can see a wall. He repeatedly pesters Donald with questions about what is on the other side. Donald constructs a fantasy of the future he dreams of with his girlfriend: a house and garden inhabited by a married couple.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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