Anthony Quayle
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 7 September 1913 · Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
- Died
- 20 October 1989
Sir John Anthony Quayle CBE (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor, theatre director, narrator and author who is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the British period-drama 'Anne of the Thousand Days'. Some of his prominent roles in films and on television were in 'The Wrong Man', 'The Battle of the River Plate', 'The Guns of Navarone', 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'The Fall of the Roman Empire', 'Operation Crossbow', 'Strange Report','QB VII', 'The Eagle Has Landed' and 'The Bourne Identity'. As the director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, he sought out some of Britain's finest actors including Richard Burton, Alan Badel, Rachel Roberts, Laurence Harvey and Michael Hordern, which laid down the foundations of the future Royal Shakespeare Company. Always daring, he had enlisted in the army during the early years of his career to participate in World War II and gave up his desk job in Gibraltar to fight behind the German lines. He was knighted four years before his death from liver cancer.
Known for
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- 2026I Am Pablo Neruda as Self
- 2000Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- 1993The Thief and the Cobbler as King Nod (voice)
- 1990King of the Wind as Lord Granville
- 1989The Endless Game as Glanville
- 1988Magdalene as Father Noessler
- 1988Buster as Sir James McDowell
- 1988The Legend of the Holy Drinker as Distinguished Gentleman
- 1986Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus as Oedipus
- 1985The Key to Rebecca as Abdullah
- 1984The Eastern Front as Narrator
- 1981Dial M for Murder as Insp. Hubbard
- 1980Cause for Celebration as Narrator
- 1979Henry IV Part 2 as Sir John Falstaff
- 1979Henry IV Part 1 as Sir John Falstaff
- 1979Murder by Decree as Sir Charles Warren
- 1978Ice Age as The Old Man
- 1978The Secret Life of Edward James as Readings
- 1977Holocaust 2000 as Professor Griffith
- 197621 Hours at Munich as Zvi Zamir
- 1976The Eagle Has Landed as Admiral Canaris
- 1976The Story of David as King Saul
- 1976Moses the Lawgiver as Aaron
- 1974The Tamarind Seed as Jack Loder
- 1974Great Expectations as Jaggers
- 1973Bequest to the Nation as Lord Minto
- 1973Jarrett as Cosmo Bastrop
- 1972Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask as The King
- 1969Anne of the Thousand Days as Wolsey
- 1969Destiny of a Spy as Col. Malendin
- 1969Mackenna's Gold as Older Englishman
- 1969Before Winter Comes as Brigadier Bewley
- 1968The Judgement of Albion as Voice
- 1968A Case of Libel as Colonel Douglas
- 1967Misunderstood as Sir John Edward Duncombe
- 1967See You at the Pillar
- 1966Barefoot in Athens as King Pausanias of Sparta
- 1966The Poppy Is Also a Flower as Captain Vanderbilt
- 1965A Study in Terror as Doctor Murray
- 1965Operation Crossbow as Bamford
- 1964East of Sudan as Private Baker
- 1964The Fall of the Roman Empire as Verulus
- 1962Lawrence of Arabia as Colonel Harry Brighton
- 1962H.M.S. Defiant as Vizard
- 1961The Rose Affair as Betumain
- 1961The Guns of Navarone as Maj. Roy Franklin
- 1960The Challenge as Jim
- 1959The Scent of Fear as Colonel Kralik
- 1959Tarzan's Greatest Adventure as Slade
- 1959Serious Charge as Reverend Howard Phillips
- 1958Ice Cold in Alex as Captain van der Poel
- 1958The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as Dr. Frank Smith
- 1957No Time for Tears as Dr. Graham Seagrave
- 1957Woman in a Dressing Gown as Jim Preston
- 1956The Wrong Man as Frank D. O'Connor
- 1956The Battle of the River Plate as Commodore Harwood - H.M.S. Ajax
- 1956The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Robert Browning
- 1955Oh... Rosalinda!! as Gen. Orlovsky
- 1948Hamlet as Marcellus
- 1948Saraband for Dead Lovers as Durer
- 1938Pygmalion as Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)