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Acting

Anthony Quayle

Career: Active from 1955 to 1993, busiest in 1976 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 38
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Lawrence of Arabia
91/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Primetime Emmy Awards · Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
1975 · Won · 27th Primetime Emmy Awards
QB VII
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actor in a Supporting Role
1970 · Nominated · 42nd Academy Awards
Anne of the Thousand Days
Source: Wikidata

Characters

2

The characters Anthony Quayle played, best-known titles first.

Anthony Quayle as Colonel Harry Brighton

Anthony Quayle as Adam Strange

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 52 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Anthony Quayle Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.9, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.7, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.3, average 2.7
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 6
Character Study 5
Political Intrigue 5
Biblical Epic 4
Ancient Warfare 3
Faith and Doubt 3
Spiritual Journey 3
Based on True Events 3
Historical Epic 3
Psychological Suspense 3
Social Commentary 3
Character-Driven 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

88

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1990s

2 titles · average score 64

The Thief and the Cobbler

64

as King Nod (voice)

King of the Wind

63

as Lord Granville

1980s

19 titles · average score 65

The Bourne Identity

66

TV show · as François Villiers

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

74

as Distinguished Gentleman

Reaching for the Skies

TV show · as Narrator - Himself

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

as Oedipus

The Key to Rebecca

57

as Abdullah

The Last Days of Pompeii

45

TV show · as Quintus

The Heart of the Dragon

TV show · as Narrator

Lace

71

TV show · as Dr. Geneste

Natural World

80

TV show

Masada

74

TV show · as Rubrius Gallus

Dial M for Murder

62

as Insp. Hubbard

The Manions of America

71

TV show · as Lord Montgomery

1970s

24 titles · average score 64

Murder by Decree

61

as Sir Charles Warren

Holocaust 2000

47

as Professor Griffith

The Eagle Has Landed

66

as Admiral Canaris

The Story of David

62

TV show · as King Saul

Moses the Lawgiver

53

as Aaron

The Story of David

53

as King Saul

21 Hours at Munich

61

as Zvi Zamir

Moses the Lawgiver

65

TV show

The Tamarind Seed

63

as Jack Loder

The Evil Touch

TV show

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

72

as The King

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

82

TV show · as Narrator

1960s

25 titles · average score 64

Strange Report

78

TV show · as Adam Strange

Anne of the Thousand Days

59

as Wolsey

Misunderstood

77

as Sir John Edward Duncombe

Barefoot in Athens

as King Pausanias of Sparta

A Study in Terror

56

as Doctor Murray

The Fall of the Roman Empire

61

as Verulus

East of Sudan

54

as Private Baker

Lawrence of Arabia

91

as Colonel Harry Brighton

H.M.S. Defiant

83

as Vizard

The Saint

74

TV show · as Lord Thornton Yearley

The Guns of Navarone

78

as Maj. Roy Franklin

The Challenge

57

as Jim

1950s

15 titles · average score 69

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

56

as Slade

Serious Charge

51

as Reverend Howard Phillips

The Scent of Fear

as Colonel Kralik

Ice Cold in Alex

81

as Captain van der Poel

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

62

as Dr. Frank Smith

Woman in a Dressing Gown

75

as Jim Preston

No Time for Tears

as Dr. Graham Seagrave

Suspicion

71

TV show · as Graham

The Wrong Man

80

as Frank D. O'Connor

The Battle of the River Plate

65

as Commodore Harwood - H.M.S. Ajax

Oh... Rosalinda!!

63

as Gen. Orlovsky

Producers' Showcase

69

TV show

1940s

2 titles · average score 73

Hamlet

82

as Marcellus

Saraband for Dead Lovers

64

as Durer

1930s

1 title · average score 73

Pygmalion

73

as Eliza's Hairdresser (uncredited)