Anthony Quayle
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Born | John Anthony Quayle 7 September 1913 |
Died | 20 October 1989 | (aged 76)
Occupation(s) | Actor and theatre director |
Years active | 1935–1989 |
Spouses | |
Children | 3 |
Sir John Anthony Quayle
Early life
Quayle was born on 7 September 1913 at 2 Delamere Road, Ainsdale,[1] Southport, Lancashire, to solicitor Arthur Quayle, of a Manx family, and Esther Kate Quayle (née Overton).[3]
He was educated at
Second World War service
During the
Later he joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and served as a liaison officer with the partisans in Albania. Reportedly, his service with the SOE seriously affected him, and he never felt comfortable talking about it. He described his experiences in a fictional form in Eight Hours from England.[7]
He was an aide to the Governor of
By the end of the war, he held the rank of
Career
Theatre
From 1948 to 1956 Quayle directed at the
Quayle made his Broadway debut in The Country Wife in 1936. Thirty-four years later, he won critical acclaim for his starring role in the highly successful Anthony Shaffer play Sleuth, which earned him a Drama Desk Award.
Quayle was artist-in-residence at the University of Tennessee in the mid-70s. He came to Knoxville in spring 1974, through a partnership with the Kennedy Center, starring in Henry Denker's The Headhunters, which rehearsed and opened at the Clarence Brown Theatre and then moved on to the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre. Quayle was appointed as professor in theatre in 1974. He taught classes as an artist in residence and served as artistic director of the Clarence Brown Company—a professional theatre company in residence at UT. He played in Everyman the same year.
In 1984, he founded Compass Theatre Company, that he inaugurated with a tour of The Clandestine Marriage, directing and playing the part of Lord Ogleby. This production had a run at the
Film and Television
His first film role was an uncredited brief appearance as an Italian wigmaker in
Often cast as the decent British officer, Quayle drew upon his own wartime experiences, bringing a degree of authenticity to the parts absent from the performances of some non-combatant stars. One of his best friends from his days at the Old Vic was fellow actor Alec Guinness, who appeared in several films with him. He was also a close friend of Jack Hawkins and Jack Gwillim; all four actors appeared in Lawrence of Arabia.
Television appearances include the
Personal life
Quayle married twice. His first wife was the actress Hermione Hannen (1913–1983), to whom he was married from 1935 to 1941. In 1947, he married American-born actress Dorothy Hyson (1914–1996), known as "Dot" to family and friends.[8] He and Dorothy had two daughters, Jenny and Rosanna, and a son, Christopher.
Quayle died at his home in Chelsea from liver cancer on 20 October 1989.[12]
Awards and honours
- Awards (nominations)
- 1959 – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for: Ice Cold in Alex
- 1970 – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, for: Anne of the Thousand Days
- 1970 – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for: Anne of the Thousand Days
- 1981 – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special, for: Masada
- 1989 – CableACE Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic or Theatrical Special, for: The Theban Plays by Sophocles
- Awards (won)
- 1975 – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special, for: QB VII
- Honours
Quayle was
Filmography
Film
Television
Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes |
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1954 | Sunday Night Theatre | Othello | — | TV series, 1 episode: "We Live to Please" |
1956 | Producers' Showcase | Various | Various | TV series, 2 episodes |
1958 | Suspicion | Graham | Jack Smight | TV series, 1 episode: "The Man with the Gun" |
1959–61 | Armchair Theatre | Various | Various | TV series, 3 episodes |
1961 | BBC Sunday-Night Play | The General | Leo Lehmann | TV series, 1 episode: "A Reason for Staying" |
1961–65 | ITV Play of the Week
|
Various | Various | TV series, 3 episodes |
1963 | Man of the World | Dr. Moretti | John Llewellyn Moxey | TV series, 1 episode: "The Enemy" |
1964 | Drama 64 | Samurai | James Ferman | TV series, 1 episode: "Miss Hanago" |
1964 | Espionage | Philip | Michael Powell | TV series, 1 episode: "A Free Agent" |
1964 | The Saint | Lord Thornton Yearley | Peter Yates | TV series, 1 episode: "The Noble Sportsman" |
1966 | Court Martial | Colonel Julian Rodney | Peter Maxwell | TV series, 1 episode: "The House Where He Lived" |
1966 | Barefoot in Athens | Pausanias | George Schaefer | TV movie |
1967 | Playhouse | Daniel Bloch | John Gorrie | TV series, 1 episode: "The Waste Spaces" |
1968 | A Case of Libel | Colonel Douglas | Charles Jarrott | TV movie |
1969 | Destiny of a Spy | Colonel Malendin | Boris Sagal | TV movie |
1969 | Red Peppers | Mr. Edwards | Michael Mills | TV movie |
1969–70 | Strange Report | Adam Strange | Various | TV series |
1970 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | Narrator | Naomi Capon John Glenister |
TV series |
1973 | Jarrett | Cosmo Bastrop | Barry Shear | TV movie |
1974 | QB VII | Tom Banniester | Tom Gries | Miniseries |
1974 | Moses the Lawgiver | Aaron | Gianfranco De Bosio | Miniseries |
1974 | Great Expectations | Jaggers | Joseph Hardy | TV movie |
1974–75 | The Lives of Benjamin Franklin | Dartmouth | Glenn Jordan | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
1976 | The Story of David | King Saul
|
Alex Segal | TV movie |
1976 | 21 Hours at Munich | General Zvi Zamir | William A. Graham
|
TV movie |
1978 | BBC2 Play of the Week | The Old Man | David Jones | TV series, 1 episode: "Ice Age" |
1979 | The First Part of King Henry the Fourth | Sir John Falstaff | David Giles | TV movie |
1979 | The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth | Sir John Falstaff | David Giles | TV movie |
1981 | Manions of America | Lord Montgomery | Charles S. Dubin Joseph Sargent |
Miniseries |
1981 | Masada | Rubrius Gallus | Boris Sagal | Miniseries |
1981 | Tales of the Unexpected | Kyros Kassoulas | John Gorrie | TV series, 1 episode: "The Last Bottle in the World" |
1981 | Dial M for Murder | Insp. Hubbard | Boris Sagal | TV movie |
1984 | Lace | Dr. Geneste | William Hale | Miniseries |
1984 | The Last Days of Pompeii | Quintus | Peter R. Hunt | Miniseries |
1984 | The Testament of John | John Douglas | Don Taylor | TV movie |
1985 | The Key to Rebecca | Abdullah | David Hemmings | TV movie |
1986 | The Theban Plays by Sophocles | Oedipus | Don Taylor | Miniseries, 1 episode: "Oedipus at Colonus" |
1988 | The Bourne Identity | Gen. François Villiers | Roger Young | TV movie |
1988 | Reaching for the Skies | Narrator | — | TV series, documentary |
1989 | The Endless Game | Glanville | Bryan Forbes | Miniseries, 1 episode |
1989 | Confessional | The Pope | Gordon Flemyng | Posthumous release, miniseries, 2 episodes |
Books
Quayle authored two novels and an autobiography.
- Eight Hours from England (novel) (1945, Heinemann)
- On Such a Night (novel) (1947, Heinemann)
- A Time to Speak (autobiography) (1990, Barrie & Jenkins)
The first novel is a semi-fictional account of his war service with the S.O.E. in Albania.
References
- ^ a b Ainsdale became part of the County Borough of Southport in 1912
- ^ Before 1 April 1974 Southport was part of Lancashire
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "No. 34768". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 January 1940. pp. 146–148.
- ^ Auxiliary Units were the "stay-behind forces" put in place in UK in case of a German invasion
- ^ "Auxunits in Northumberland". Evening Chronicle. Newcastle upon Tyne. 24 April 1968. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- Heinemann.
- ^ a b Collins, Glenn (21 October 1989). "Sir Anthony Quayle, British Actor And Theater Director, Dies at 76". The New York Times. p. 10 Sec. 1.
- ^ a b c "No. 37575". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 May 1946. pp. 2443–2447.
- ISBN 978-0316585378.
- ^ Caedmon Publishers, TC-1071 (1957)
- ^ "Quayle tough guy on and off screen", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 1989, p. 5.
- ^ "No. 39555". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1952. p. 3007.
- ^ "No. 49969". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1984. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 50078". The London Gazette. 29 March 1985. p. 4500.
Further reading
- Information on Quayle's war experience taken from Howarth, Patrick (1980). Undercover. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7100-0573-3. Howarth was an early member of SOE's HQ.
- The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle (2008), by Roderick Bailey, London: Cape.
- His autobiography: Time to Speak (1990)
External links
- Anthony Quayle at IMDb
- Anthony Quayle at the BFI's Screenonline
- Performances listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol
- Anthony Quayle as director listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol