Anthony Quayle

Actor

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Also Known As

John Anthony Quayle, Sir Anthony Quayle

Birth Place

Ainsdale, England, GB

Born

September 07, 1913

Died

October 20, 1989

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

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Distinguished stage actor who had a non-speaking part in "Pygmalion" (1938) and made his screen debut proper in Olivier's "Hamlet" (1948), playing Marcellus. Quayle subsequently turned in memorable supporting roles in films ranging from the period drama, "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969), to Woody Allen's farcical "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)"...

Filmography

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The Endless Game (1990)

King of the Wind (1990)

Silent Night (1988)

La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore (1988)

Distinguished Old Gentleman

Dial M For Murder (1981)

Photos & Videos

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Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Know Him Well?

Hamlet (1948) -- (Movie Clip) This Is The Tragedy

Family & Companions

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Hermione Hannen

Wife

Divorced.

Dorothy Hyson

Wife

Second wife; married in 1947; died on May 23, 1996 at the age of 81.

Bibliography

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"On Such a Night"

Anthony Quayle (1947)

"Eight Hours From England"

Anthony Quayle (1945)

Notes

Knighted in 1985.

Biography

Distinguished stage actor who had a non-speaking part in "Pygmalion" (1938) and made his screen debut proper in Olivier's "Hamlet" (1948), playing Marcellus. Quayle subsequently turned in memorable supporting roles in films ranging from the period drama, "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969), to Woody Allen's farcical "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)" (1972).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Endless Game (1990)

King of the Wind (1990)

Silent Night (1988)

La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore (1988)

Distinguished Old Gentleman

Dial M For Murder (1981)

Murder by Decree (1979)

Sherlock Holmes and Saucy Jack (1979)

The Chosen (1978)

Holocaust 2000 (1978)

Professor Griffith

Rain of Fire (1977)

21 Hours At Munich (1976)

General Zvi Zamir

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris

Great Expectations (1974)

The Tamarind Seed (1974)

The Nelson Affair (1973)

Bassett Cosgrove

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex"* but Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Older Englishman

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Cardinal Wolsey

Before Winter Comes (1969)

Brigadier Bewley

A Study in Terror (1966)

Operation Crossbow (1965)

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

East of Sudan (1964)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Col. Harry Brighton

Immoral Charge (1962)

Howard Phillips

Damn the Defiant! (1962)

It Takes a Thief (1961)

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)

Ice Cold in Alex (1958)

The Wrong Man (1957)

Frank D. O'Connor

Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1957)

Commodore, Henry Harwood,

Woman In A Dressing Gown (1957)

Oh... Rosalinda! (1955)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

Cast (Special)

The Theban Plays (1988)

Oedipus ("Oedipus At Colonus")

Henry IV, Part One (1980)

The Rebel (1975)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Confessional (1990)

The Bourne Identity (1988)

General Villiers

The Key to Rebecca (1985)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)

The Manions of America (1981)

Lord Montgomery

The Story of David (1976)

The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)

Life Events

1931

Stage debut

1932

Joined Old Vic theater company

1936

Debuted on Broadway

1938

Feature acting debut, non-speaking role, "Pygmalion"

1948

Managed Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company, in Stratford-on -Avon

1948

First speaking role in feature, "Hamlet"

1971

Starred in mystery TV series, "The Strange Report"

1985

Became Sir Anthony Quayle

1990

Last feature role, "King of the Wind"

Videos

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Know Him Well? Joining director David Lean’s opening after credits, Peter O’Toole (title character) meets his end, then shooting a soundstage interior but real exterior of St. Paul’s, London, Anthony Quayle, Jack Hawkins and Arthur Kennedy among the mourners, from Lawrence Of Arabia, 1962.

Hamlet (1948) -- (Movie Clip) This Is The Tragedy The star and director narrates the opening, guard Francisco (John Laurie) relieved by Bernardo (Esmond Knight), joined by Marcellus (Anthony Quayle) and Horatio (Norman Wooland), in Laurence Olivier's 1948 production of Hamlet.

Wrong Man, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) This Is A True Story The director addresses the audience, setting the distinct tone of his non-fiction mystery, followed by credits and the introduction of protagonist Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda), in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, 1956.

Operation Crossbow (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Buried The Roosters Thirty minutes in, we start meeting Allied officers who’ll undertake the WWII spy mission, first Anthony Quayle and Tom Courtenay waiting, then George Peppard as swaggering American (leading man) Curtis, and Jeremy Kemp as the bothered Brit Bradley, in Operation Crossbow, 1965.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Am No Spy! The big scene for native Greek Stavros (Anthony Quinn), scheming to help partner Mallory (Gregory Peck) and the rest of the undercover Allied commando team escape from Nazi occupiers (Walter Gotell, George Mikell) in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) These Are Fine People Mallory (Gregory Peck) leads his incognito Allied commandos into a Nazi-occupied Greek town, Pappadimos (James Darren) joining in wedding festivities, before trouble arises, in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Lower Your Sails On their way through the Aegean on their undercover commando mission, posing as local fishermen, Mallory (Gregory Peck) and crew (Anthony Quinn, David Niven, Anthony Quayle, Stanley Baker, James Darren) are waylaid by a Nazi gunboat in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Guns of Navarone, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) It Had To Be Tried After much prologue, we meet Jensen, Mallory and Franklin (James Robertson Justice, Gregory Peck and Anthony Quayle), who hear profane testimony from Australian Banrsby (Richard Harris) as they confront the problem of the guns on the Aegean island, early in The Guns of Navarone, 1961.

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) -- (Movie Clip) They Are Master And Man The ever-insubordinate title character (Peter O'Toole) in the presence of Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), with Col. Brighton (Anthony Quayle) and Sharif Ali (Omar Sharif) in David Lean's Lawrence Of Arabia, 1962.

Pursuit of the Graf Spee, The -- (Movie Clip) Direct Hit! Altogether shocking action for 1957, as the Exeter, under the command of Bell (John Gregson), gets clobbered by the German battleship, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Pursuit of the Graf Spee.

Pursuit of the Graf Spee, The -- (Movie Clip) Sweep The Horizon Technicolor at night and stillness at sea, as the Commodore (Anthony Quayle) and staff prepare their three ships for battle, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Pursuit of the Graf Spee, 1957.

Pursuit of the Graf Spee, The -- (Movie Clip) Open, Tigers Arresting narration should surely be credited to Emeric Pressburger, in the opening of the last film by "The Archers," with Michael Powell, The Pursuit of the Graf Spee, 1957, a.k.a. "The Battle of the River Plate."

Guns of Navarone, The - (Original Trailer) A team of Allied saboteurs fight their way behind enemy lines to destroy The Guns of Navarone (1961) starring Gregory Peck and David Niven.

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex - (Original Trailer) Woody Allen's 1972 comic adaptation of the popular sex manual.

Mackenna's Gold - (Original Trailer) A group of men, lead by a questionable sheriff and a wanted bandit, descend upon the desert in search of a lost canyon of gold in Mackenna's Gold (1969).

Anne of the Thousand Days - (Original Trailer) Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold) fights to keep Henry VIII's love and her head in the midst of palace intrigue in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).

Lawrence of Arabia - (Original Trailer) A British military officer (Peter O'Toole) enlists the Arabs for desert warfare during WWI in Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Damn The Defiant! - (Original Trailer) Mutiny threatens His Majesty's warship during the war against Napoleon in Damn The Defiant! (1962) starring Alec Guinness.

Operation Crossbow - (Original Trailer) Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base during World War II in Operation Crossbow (1965) starring George Peppard & Sophia Loren.

Wrong Man, The - (Original Trailer) Alfred Hitchcock tells the true-life story of a musician (Henry Fonda) mistaken for a criminal in The Wrong Man (1957).

Family

Christopher Quayle

Son

Mother Dorothy Hyson.

Rosanna Quayle

Daughter

Mother Dorothy Hyson.

Jennie Quayle

Daughter

Mother Dorothy Hyson.

Companions

Hermione Hannen

Wife

Divorced.

Dorothy Hyson

Wife

Second wife; married in 1947; died on May 23, 1996 at the age of 81.

Bibliography

"On Such a Night"

Anthony Quayle (1947)

"Eight Hours From England"

Anthony Quayle (1945)

Notes

Knighted in 1985.

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