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Anthony Quayle

Anthony Quayle


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  • Ice Cold In Alex
  • Ice Cold In Alex review by A customer from Worthing, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars marvellous film 31 March 2005
    ...lm with a terrific story and marvellous acting particularly from John Mills and Anthony Quayle. It kept me entranced all the way through and I do not usually enjoy war films...   Read customer review

Anthony Quayle - filmography


  • The Thief And The Cobbler on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Clinton Sundberg,  Joan Sims,  Stanley Baxter
    Director: Richard Williams
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Richard Williams directs this animated Arabian adventure about a lowly cobbler who falls in love with a Princess. Brought to the royal palace after incurring the wrath of evil sorcerer Zigzag (voice of Vincent Price), shy cobbler Tack (voice of Matthew Broderick) quickly falls for the charms of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 24 members
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  • The Bourne Identity (1988)
    Starring: Denholm Elliott,  Jaclyn Smith,  Donald Moffat
    Director: Roger Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Espionage thriller in which a man who has lost his memory but gained several bullet wounds must avoid assassins on his tail in Europe and try to find out who he is. Originally made in two parts for television.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,661 members
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  • Masada (2 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Barbara Carrera,  Peter O'Toole,  Giulia Pagano
    Director: Boris Sagal
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Epic historical TV mini-series in which Jewish zealots hold out against the superior numbers of the Roman army. 70 years after the crucifixion, Jerusalem finally falls to Roman rule, with the remaining rebels withdrawing to the heavily fortified mountain stronghold of Masada, south of the city. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 497 members
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  • Henry IV - Part One on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Anthony Quayle,  Jon Finch,  David Gwillim
    Director: David Giles
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. These are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 188 members
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  • The Eagle Has Landed - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: Jenn,  Maurice Roeves,  Sven-Bertil Taube
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Sturges' adaptation of Jack Higgins' semi-factual novel using an all-star cast. In 1943, a group of Nazi soldiers parachute into Norfolk and infiltrate a small village near the holiday retreat of Winston Churchill. Their plan is to assassinate the British Prime Minister but the villagers are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 713 members
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  • 21 Hours At Munich on DVD (1976)
    Starring: William Holden,  Richard Basehart,  Shirley Knight
    Director: William A. Graham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true story of terrorism striking at the 1972 Olympics in Germany, this film does not spare viewers the violence and intensity of the real event. A Munich police chief learns that during the games a group of Palestinian extremists have kidnapped members of the Israeli team. With the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 184 members
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  • Moses The Lawgiver (2 discs) (1975)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Anthony Quayle
    Director: Gianfranco De Bosio
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Burt Lancaster stars as the Old Testament prophet in this 1975 mini-series. Baby Moses is taken in and raised by an Egyptian princess when an edict is passed calling for the death of all first-born Hebrew babies. When his surrogate mother dies, Moses returns to his impoverished people, marrying ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 52 members
    Not available for rental
  • Strange Report (5 discs) (1969)
    Starring: Anthony Quayle
    Director: Charles Crichton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All sixteen episodes of the cult 1960s detective drama. Anthony Quayle plays Adam Strange, a Home Office criminologist drawn into the investigation of bizarre and baffling cases that are beyond the skills of the normal police. Ably assisted by American graduate student Hamlyn (Kaz Garas) and his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 204 members
    Not available for rental
  • Anne Of The Thousand Days on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Nora Swinburne,  Michael Hordern,  Peter
    Director: Charles Jarrott
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Burton stars as Henry VIII in this historical drama, with Genevieve Bujold playing his tragic wife, Anne Boleyn. Amidst the splendour of the Tudor court, Henry and Anne's tempestuous marriage mirrors the political and religious intrigues that threaten to divide the kingdom, as Henry grows ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 694 members
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  • MacKenna's Gold on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Lee J. Cobb,  Edward G. Robinson,  Raymond Massey
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Arizona sheriff Sam MacKenna (Gregory Peck) thinks his luck is in when he is given a map to a mythical 'Valley of Gold'. But the news of the map travels fast, and soon everyone wants a piece of the action, including the brutal bandit Colorado (Omar Sharif). Colorado captures MacKenna and forces him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 459 members
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  • Operation Opium (1966)
    Starring: Yul Brynner,  Jack Hawkins,  Trevor Howard
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Made-for-TV thriller, based on the story by Ian Fleming, about narcotics agents trying to trace heroin shipments in Europe. After a UN agent is murdered trying to trace opium routes in Iran, two of his compatriots take over the case, coming up with an ingenious plan to inject a radioactive isotope ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 13 members
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  • A Study In Terror on DVD (1965)
    Starring: John Neville,  Robert Morley,  Donald Houston
    Director: James Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The famous detective brings his skills to bear on the bloody crimes of Jack the Ripper, in Victorian London's notorious East End. With the whole city in a panic, Holmes (John Neville) receives a mysterious clue in the form of a surgical box, marked with an aristocratic family crest. From this, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 231 members
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  • Espionage (1963)
    Starring: Anthony Quayle,  Roger Livesey
    Director: Michael Powell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The complete 24 episodes of the early 1960s anthology series which tracked various spies around the world, both real and fictional, as they went about their top-secret business. Episodes are: 'A Covenant With Death', 'The Incurable One', 'The Gentle Spies', 'He Rises On Sunday and We On Monday', '..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 8 members
    Not available for rental
  • H.M.S. Defiant on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Murray Melvin,  Maurice Denham,  Tom Bell
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the years of the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Crawford (Alec Guinness) is respected by his crew as a fair and just leader of men, but his second-in-command, Lt. Scott-Padget (Dirk Bogarde), is known as a bitter sadist who likes to see the sailors suffer. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 613 members
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  • Lawrence Of Arabia - Blu-ray (1962)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Anthony Quinn,  Donald Wolfit
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    David Lean's lush, Oscar-winning biopic stars Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-educated British army officer who aided the Arabs in their revolt against the Turks. Teaming up with Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence crosses a desert (considered uncrossable) in order to join two separate ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 266 members
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  • The Guns Of Navarone (1961)
    Starring: Bryan Forbes,  Anthony Quinn,  Stanley Baker
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,437 members
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  • The Challenge on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Jayne Mansfield,  Anthony Quayle,  Carl Möhner
    Director: John Gilling
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jayne Mansfield makes a departure from her usual roles to play tough girl Billy in this dark crime story. Set in London during the 1960s, the film casts Mansfield as the ringleader of a band of robbers. After a failed heist, her boyfriend, Jim (Anthony Quayle), is captured, but not before he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 27 members
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  • Serious Charge on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Olive Sloane,  Leigh Madison,  Cliff Richard
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A local trouble maker is accused by the priest of being responsible for the death of a young girl. Inorder to get revenge he accuses the priest of making homosexual advances towards him. Based on a play by Philp King.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 73 members
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  • Ice Cold In Alex on DVD (1958)
    Starring: John Mills,  Diane Clare,  Harry Andrews
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    John Mills stars in this war story set after the fall of Tobruk in World War II. Two English army officers (John Mills and Harry Andrews) and two young nurses (Sylvia Syms and Diane Clare) are driving an ambulance through occupied North Africa to Alexandria. Along the way they pick up a South ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,965 members
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  • Ice Cold In Alex - Blu-ray (1958)
    Starring: John Mills,  Diane Clare,  Harry Andrews
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    John Mills stars in this war story set after the fall of Tobruk in World War II. Two English army officers (John Mills and Harry Andrews) and two young nurses (Sylvia Syms and Diane Clare) are driving an ambulance through occupied North Africa to Alexandria. Along the way they pick up a South ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 255 members
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  • The Wrong Man on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Vera Miles,  Anthony Quayle
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,358 member
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  • Hamlet on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Norman Wooland,  Basil Sydney,  Peter Cushing
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,852 member
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  • Hamlet - Blu-ray (1948)
    Starring: Norman Wooland,  Basil Sydney,  Peter Cushing
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Laurence Olivier directs and stars in this adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Hamlet (Olivier), Prince of Denmark, is still mourning over the death of his father and his mother Gertrude's (Eileen Herlie) subsequent remarriage to Hamlet's despised uncle, Claudius (Basil Sydney), who is now ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 60 members
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Anthony Quayle facts

5 most recent films

The Thief And The Cobbler - 3.5 stars
The Bourne Identity - 3.5 stars
Masada - 3.5 stars
Henry IV - Part One - 3.5 stars
The Eagle Has Landed - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lawrence Of Arabia - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Ice Cold In Alex - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Guns Of Navarone - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Ice Cold In Alex - 4.0 stars
Woman In A Dressing Gown - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Operation Opium - 2.0 stars
It Takes A Thief - 2.5 stars
Espionage - 2.5 stars
The Challenge - 3.0 stars
The Thief And The Cobbler - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Omar Sharif - 6 times - show films
Alec Guinness - 5 times - show films
Anthony Quinn - 4 times - show films
Peter O'Toole - 3 times - show films
Tony Tarver - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Charles Crichton - 6 times - show films
J. Lee Thompson - 6 times - show films
Anthony Mann - 4 times - show films
Laurence Olivier - 3 times - show films
David Lean - 3 times - show films