Quayle was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary High School, Harlesden. She has appeared on film, on stage and on television. Her film appearances include Smashing Time (1967), a short but memorable scene that she shares with John Lennon in A Hard Day's Night (1964), the German expressionist sequence of Casino Royale (1967) and in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as Baroness Bomburst. In 1963, Quayle appeared on Broadway in the original production of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off opposite Anthony Newley, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Supporting Musical Actress. Other television work includes the comedy drama Mapp and Lucia, the children's science fiction series The Georgian House and Grange Hill where she played the role of Mrs Monroe from 1990–94. In 1973, she appeared as a regular panellist on the popular BBC2 panel game show What's My Line?
Series | Brideshead Revisited | Nancy Tallboys | 1981-10-12 |
Movie | S.O.S. Titanic | Maude Slocombe, Turkish Bath Attendant | 1980-02-29 |
Movie | Henry V | Alice | 1979-12-23 |
Series | Grange Hill | Mrs. Monroe | 1978-02-08 |
Movie | Adventures of a Plumber's Mate | Loretta Proudfoot | 1978-07-01 |
Movie | The Light Princess | Makemnoit | 1978-12-24 |
Series | BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
Movie | Adventures of a Private Eye | Medea Dotrice | 1977-03-04 |
Movie | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Freda | 1976-10-24 |
Movie | James and the Giant Peach | Aunt Spiker | 1976-12-28 |
Movie | Three for All | La Pulle | 1975-05-01 |
Movie | Mistress Pamela | Mrs.Jelks | 1974-01-01 |
Movie | Up the Chastity Belt | Lady Ashfodel | 1972-01-14 |
Movie | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Baroness Bomburst | 1968-12-17 |
Movie | Casino Royale | Frau Hoffner | 1967-04-13 |
Movie | Smashing Time | Charlotte Brillig | 1967-12-20 |
Movie | Arrivederci, Baby! | Aunt Miriam | 1966-12-28 |
Movie | The Sandwich Man | Second Billingsgate Woman | 1966-07-01 |
Movie | A Hard Day's Night | Millie | 1964-07-07 |
Series | The Avengers | Olga | 1961-01-07 |