
Anthony Quayle
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Sir John Anthony Quayle (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was a British actor who was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). He also played important roles in such major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), QB VII (1974) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Quayle was knighted in the 1985 New Year Honours. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Quayle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
as Colonel Harry Brighton

The Guns of Navarone (1961)
as Maj. Roy Franklin

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
as Verulus

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
as Admiral Canaris

Mackenna's Gold (1969)
as Older Englishman

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
as The King

The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
as King Nod (voice)

The Wrong Man (1956)
as Frank D. O'Connor

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
as Wolsey

Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
as Captain van der Poel

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
as Commodore Harwood - H.M.S. Ajax

21 Hours at Munich (1976)
as Zvi Zamir

Murder by Decree (1979)
as Sir Charles Warren

A Study in Terror (1965)
as Doctor Murray

Hamlet (1948)
as Marcellus

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
as Slade

Operation Crossbow (1965)
as Bamford

H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
as Vizard

The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
as Captain Vanderbilt

Dial M for Murder (1981)
as Insp. Hubbard

Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955)
as Gen. Orlovsky

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
as Durer

King of the Wind (1990)
as Lord Granville

The Tamarind Seed (1974)
as Jack Loder

The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
as Distinguished Gentleman

Misunderstood (1967)
as Sir John Edward Duncombe

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
as Dr. Frank Smith

Henry IV Part 2 (1979)
as Sir John Falstaff

Henry IV Part 1 (1979)
as Sir John Falstaff

Bequest to the Nation (1973)
as Lord Minto

Moses the Lawgiver (1976)
as Aaron

Pygmalion (1938)
as Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus (1986)
as Oedipus

Destiny of a Spy (1969)
as Col. Malendin

The Story of David (1976)
as King Saul

Great Expectations (1974)
as Jaggers
A Case of Libel (1968)
as Colonel Douglas

Buster (1988)
as Sir James McDowell

The Key to Rebecca (1985)
as Abdullah

Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
as Jim Preston

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
as Self (archive footage)

No Time for Tears (1957)
as Dr. Graham Seagrave

Serious Charge (1959)
as Reverend Howard Phillips

Holocaust 2000 (1977)
as Professor Griffith

The Endless Game (1989)
as Glanville

The Challenge (1960)
as Jim

Before Winter Comes (1969)
as Brigadier Bewley
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1956)
as Robert Browning
The Scent of Fear (1959)
as Colonel Kralik

Ice Age (1978)
as The Old Man

East of Sudan (1964)
as Private Baker

Jarrett (1973)
as Cosmo Bastrop
Barefoot in Athens (1966)
as King Pausanias of Sparta

Magdalene (1988)
as Father Noessler

The Judgement of Albion (1968)
as Voice

See You at the Pillar (1967)
Actor
The Rose Affair (1961)
as Betumain

I Am Pablo Neruda (—)
as Self
Cause for Celebration (1980)
as Narrator

The Secret Life of Edward James (1978)
as Readings
The Eastern Front (1984)
as Narrator





