Biography
Sir John Anthony Quayle 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.
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie · 1975
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Knight Bachelor
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1970 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actor in a Play · 1956 · nominated
Filmography34 titles
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Lawrence of Arabia
Natural World
The Saint
Hamlet
The Guns of Navarone
Ice Cold in Alex
The Thief and the Cobbler
Anne of the Thousand Days
The Wrong Man
King of the Wind
Moses the Lawgiver
Pygmalion
Tales of the Unexpected
Great Expectations
The Eagle Has Landed
Operation Crossbow
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Mackenna's Gold
The Bourne Identity
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Damn the Defiant!
Pursuit of the Graf Spee
Murder by Decree
21 Hours at Munich
The Tamarind Seed
A Study in Terror
Moses the Lawgiver
Holocaust 2000
Buster
The Challenge
The Key to Rebecca
The Story of David