Quayle, Sir Anthony

Quayle, Sir Anthony

▪ British actor
in full  Sir John Anthony Quayle  
born Sept. 7, 1913, Ainsdale, Lancashire, Eng.
died Oct 20, 1989, London

      British actor and director who was well known for his roles in classic plays on the stage as well as for his motion-picture career.

      Quayle made his first stage appearance in 1931 in vaudeville but became a member of the Old Vic Theatre in 1932 and made his New York City debut in The Country Wife (1936). He toured with the Old Vic, playing Laertes in performances of Hamlet at the Danish seaport of Elsinore (1937) and playing the title role in Henry V presented in various European cities and in Egypt (1939). During World War II he served as a major of artillery, but he returned to the stage in 1945 to perform in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.

      Quayle directed Crime and Punishment (1946) and The Relapse (1947) before becoming director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. He appeared in more than 20 roles with the company and directed nine of its productions. After leaving Stratford in 1956, his stage work included touring Europe in Titus Andronicus (1957), directing and appearing as Moses in The Firstborn (New York City, 1958), starring as James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night (Edinburgh, 1958), and playing Andrew Wyke in Sleuth (London and New York City, 1970). He received several awards for his role in Sleuth.

      Quayle's screen career began with Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), and his many films, tending toward historical and costume drama, include Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), The Tamarind Seed (1974), and Murder by Decree (1979). Quayle was knighted in 1985.

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