Anna Quayle (born 6 October 1936) is an
English actress. Her father was the stage actor Douglas Quayle.Playbill Magazine , vol. 1, no. 23, June 3, 1963 - Miss Quayle's "Who's Who in the Cast" for
Stop the World - I Want to Get OffShe has appeared on film, on stage, and on television. Her film appearances include
Smashing Time (1967), a short but notable (not to say strange) 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.
She appeared on
Broadway in the original production of
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off opposite the late
Anthony Newley. It is for this in 1963 that she won a
Tony Award - for Best Supporting Musical Actress.
Quayle's other TV 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 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?
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