ANTHONY QUAYLE BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Anthony Quayle was born on September 7th, 1913 in Southport, Lancashire in England, with the birth name John Anthony Quayle. He graduated from Rugby School and for a brief time studied at RADA.
Soon he found work in a music hall comedy act which followed with working at the Old Vic Company in 1932. After gaining a couple years of stage experience there he broke into Broadway and began adding such Broadway credits as, "The Country Wife" and a number of other Shakespearean plays.
Quayle then took a brief break from acting during World War II to serve with the Royal Artillery where he reached the rank of major. Upon completing his limitary service he returned back to his career as a stage actor and also found work as a theater director in 1946 for the production, "Crime and Punishment".
He continued working in theater as the director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon from 1948 through 1956. Some of his theater credits included, "Othello", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Henry VIII", "Titus Andronicus", "The Firstborn" and "The Barretts of Wimpole Street".
Although he loved the theater, in 1938 he also began adding film work to his resume such as, "I Stand Condemned" (1935) starring Harry Baur, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Laurence Olivier, Lilian Braithwaite, Athene Seyler, Robert Cochran and Morton Selten and "Pygmalion" (1938) starring Leslie Howard, Wilfrid Lawson, Leueen MacGrath and Wendy Hiller, although both were un-credited. He did however have a credited role in the movie, "Trelawny of the Wells" (1938) starring O.B. Clarence, Hermione Hannen, Anthony Howard and Freda Jackson.
As his acting career progressed, some of his more well known film roles included, "Pursuit of the Graf Spee" (1956) with John Gregson, Ian Hunter, Patrick Macnee, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee and Peter Finch, "Ice Cold in Alex" (1958) starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Harry Andrews, Diane Clare and Liam Redmond, "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) starring Gregory Peck, James Robertson Justice, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Gia Scala, James Darren and Stanley Baker, "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) starring alongside Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy and Claude Rains and Omar Sharif, and "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969) starring Richard Burton as King Henry VIII and Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn, Irene Papas plays Catherine of Aragon, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Katharine Blake, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph O'Conor, William Squire, Vernon Dobtcheff, Denis Quilley, Esmond Knight, T. P. McKenna and Elizabeth Taylor, a role for which he earned an Academy Award nomination.
Quayle also had a very likeable voice which was used to narrate, "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (1970) the aviation documentary series, "Reaching for the Skies" and various radio programs. Other film roles included the British-Canadian thriller, "Murder By Decree" (1979) starring with Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Susan Clark, David Hemmings, Donald Sutherland, John Gielgud, Genevieve Bujold and Frank Finlay and appearances on such television shows as, "Armchair Theatre" and "The Theban Plays by Sophocles.
In addition to his career as an actor he was also a published author with two novels written about experiences he had during World War II, "Eight Hours from England" and "On Such a Night". He was also the founder of the Compass Theatre Company in 1984.
Anthony Quayle married twice throughout his lifetime, first to Hermione Hannen in 1934 however by 1941 this marriage ended in divorce. He then wed Dorothy Hyson in 1947 and they had three children together and remained married until he passed away on October 20th, 1989 in London, England after suffering from liver cancer.
Filmography
1993 The Princess and the Cobbler
1990 King of the Wind
1990 The Endless Game
1989 Confessional
1989 Magdalene
1988 Buster
1988 The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988 The Bourne Identity
1987 Reaching for the Skies
1986 The Theban Plays by Sophocles
1985 The Key to Rebecca
1985 The Miracle
1984 The Last Days of Pompeii
1984 The Testament of John
1984 Lace
1981 The Manions of America
1981 Tales of the Unexpected
1981 Dial M for Murder
1981 Masada
1979 Henry IV Part II
1979 Henry IV Part I
1979 Murder by Decree
1978 BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 Holocaust 2000
1976 The Eagle Has Landed
1976 21 Hours at Munich
1976 The Story of David
1975 Benjamin Franklin
1974 Moses the Lawgive
1974 Great Expectations
1974 The Tamarind Seed
1974 QB VII
1973 The Nelson Affair
1973 Jarrett
1972 Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
1970 The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1969-1970 Strange Report
1969 Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 Red Peppers
1969 Destiny of a Spy
1969 Before Winter Comes
1969 Mackenna's Gold
1969 Island Unknown
1968 A Case of Libel
1967 ITV Playhouse
1966 Incompreso
1966 Barefoot in Athens
1966 Court Martial
1966 Poppies Are Also Flowers
1965 A Study in Terror
1965 Operation Crossbow
1961-1965 ITV Play of the Week
1965 Miss Hanago
1964 Drama 61-67
1964 East of Sudan
1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 Espionage
1964 The Saint
1963 Man of the World
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1962 Damn the Defiant!
1959-1961 Armchair Theatre
1961 The Guns of Navarone
1961 A Reason for Staying
1960 It Takes a Thief
1959 Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959 Serious Charge
1958 Ice Cold in Alex
1958 Suspicion
1958 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1957 No Time for Tears
1957 Woman in a Dressing Gown
1956 The Wrong Man
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee
1956 Producers' Showcase
1955 Oh... Rosalinda!!
1955 The Merry Wives of Windsor
1949 Train of Events
1948 Saraband
1948 Hamlet
1939 Sun Up
1938 A Farewell Supper
1938 Trelawny of the Wells
1938 Pygmalion
1935 I Stand Condemned
