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Anthony Quayle - Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE (1913-1989)

Signed: To Sally with all good wishes - Anthony Quayle Aug '64

A b/w 10x8 photo from we believe 'Ice Cold Alex' (1958)
Photo has light creasing, does not affect signataure.

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English actor and director. He was often cast as the 'decent British officer'. His first film role was a brief uncredited one as an Italian wigmaker in the 1938 Pygmalion - subsequent film roles included parts in Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959), The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1969 for his role in Anne of the Thousand Days.

From 1948 to 1956 he directed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and laid the foundations for the creation of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His own Shakespearian roles included Falstaff, Othello, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Henry VIII, and Aaron in Titus Andronicus opposite Sir Laurence Olivier; he played Mosca in Ben Jonson's Volpone; and he also appeared in many contemporary plays.

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