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?

Filmography

• Lytton's Diary — Bertha
• Mapp & Lucia — Olga Braceley
• Father Charlie — Reverend Mother Joseph
• Objects of Affection — Pam
• 1982Rolling Home — Pam
• Never the Twain — Isadora Beecham
• 1981The Best of the Adventures — Medea Dotrice / Loretta Proudfoot (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1981Towers of Babel — Ruby
• 1980S.O.S. Titanic — Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant
• 1979Henry V — Alice
• 1978Adventures of a Plumber's Mate — Loretta Proudfoot
• Grange Hill — Mrs. Monroe
• 1978The Light Princess — Makemnoit
• 1977Adventures of a Private Eye — Medea Dotrice
• The Sound of Laughter — Vera
• 1976James and the Giant Peach — Aunt Spiker
• The Georgian House — Miss Humphreys
• 1976The Seven-Per-Cent Solution — Freda
• 1975Eskimo Nell — Reverend Mother
• 1975Three for All — La Pulle
• 1974Mistress Pamela — Mrs.Jelks
• 1972Up the Chastity Belt — Lady Ashfodel
• 1968Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — Baroness Bomburst
• 1967Casino Royale — Frau Hoffner
• 1967Smashing Time — Charlotte Brillig
• 1966Arrivederci, Baby! — Aunt Miriam
• 1966The Sandwich Man — Second Billingsgate Woman
• 1964A Hard Day's Night — Millie
• The Avengers — Olga

Appearances as themselves (1)

• The Merv Griffin Show — Self