Sir John Anthony Quayle (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was a British actor who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). He also played important roles in such major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), QB VII (1974) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Quayle was knighted in the 1985 New Year Honours. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Quayle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 1993The Thief and the Cobbler — King Nod (voice)
• 1990King of the Wind — Lord Granville
• Confessional — Pope
• 1989The Endless Game — Glanville
• The Endless Game — Glanville
• 1988Buster — Sir James McDowell
• 1988Magdalene — Father Noessler
• Reaching for the Skies — Narrator - Himself
• The Bourne Identity — François Villiers
• 1988The Legend of the Holy Drinker — Distinguished Gentleman
• 1986Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus — Oedipus
• 1985The Key to Rebecca — Abdullah
• Lace — Dr. Geneste
• 1984The Eastern Front — Narrator
• The Heart of the Dragon — Narrator
• The Last Days of Pompeii — Quintus
• Natural World
• 1981Dial M for Murder — Insp. Hubbard
• Masada — Rubrius Gallus
• The Manions of America — Lord Montgomery
• 1980Cause for Celebration — Narrator
• 1979Henry IV Part 1 — Sir John Falstaff
• 1979Henry IV Part 2 — Sir John Falstaff
• 1979Murder by Decree — Sir Charles Warren
• Tales of the Unexpected — Kyros Kassoulas
• 1978Ice Age — The Old Man
• 1978The Secret Life of Edward James — Readings
• BBC2 Play of the Week — The Old Man
• 1977Holocaust 2000 — Professor Griffith
• 197621 Hours at Munich — Zvi Zamir
• 1976Moses the Lawgiver — Aaron
• 1976The Eagle Has Landed — Admiral Canaris
• 1976The Story of David — King Saul
• The Story of David — King Saul
• Moses the Lawgiver
• 1974Great Expectations — Jaggers
• Moses the Lawgiver — Aaron
• QB VII — Tom Banniester
• The Lives of Benjamin Franklin — Dartmouth
• 1974The Tamarind Seed — Jack Loder
• 1973Bequest to the Nation — Lord Minto
• 1973Jarrett — Cosmo Bastrop
• The Evil Touch
• 1972Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask — The King
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII — Narrator
• 1969Anne of the Thousand Days — Wolsey
• 1969Before Winter Comes — Brigadier Bewley
• 1969Destiny of a Spy — Col. Malendin
• 1969Mackenna's Gold — Older Englishman
• Strange Report — Adam Strange
• 1968A Case of Libel — Colonel Douglas
• 1968The Judgement of Albion — Voice
• ITV Playhouse — Daniel Bloch
• 1967Misunderstood — Sir John Edward Duncombe
• 1967See You at the Pillar
• 1966Barefoot in Athens — King Pausanias of Sparta
• 1966The Poppy Is Also a Flower — Captain Vanderbilt
• 1965A Study in Terror — Doctor Murray
• 1965Operation Crossbow — Bamford
• 1964East of Sudan — Private Baker
• 1964The Fall of the Roman Empire — Verulus
• Espionage — Philip
• 1962H.M.S. Defiant — Vizard
• 1962Lawrence of Arabia — Colonel Harry Brighton
• Man of the World — Dr. Moretti
• The Saint — Lord Thornton Yearley
• Drama 61-67 — Samurai
• 1961The Guns of Navarone — Maj. Roy Franklin
• 1961The Rose Affair — Betumain
• Sunday-Night Play — The General
• 1960The Challenge — Jim
• 1959Serious Charge — Reverend Howard Phillips
• 1959Tarzan's Greatest Adventure — Slade
• 1959The Scent of Fear — Colonel Kralik
• 1958Ice Cold in Alex — Captain van der Poel
• 1958The Man Who Wouldn't Talk — Dr. Frank Smith
• 1957No Time for Tears — Dr. Graham Seagrave
• Suspicion — Graham
• 1957Woman in a Dressing Gown — Jim Preston
• Armchair Theatre — Harry Albert, Betumain, Colonel Kralik
• 1956The Barretts of Wimpole Street — Robert Browning
• 1956The Battle of the River Plate — Commodore Harwood - H.M.S. Ajax
• 1956The Wrong Man — Frank D. O'Connor
• 1955Oh... Rosalinda!! — Gen. Orlovsky
• Producers' Showcase
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Pasusanias
• 1948Hamlet — Marcellus
• 1948Saraband for Dead Lovers — Durer
• 1938Pygmalion — Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2000Sir John Mills' Moving Memories — Self (archive footage)
• The Best of British Cinema — Self - Narrator
• Tony Awards — Self - Host, Self - Co-Host
• I Am Pablo Neruda — Self