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Name
  
Ann Way

Role
  
Character actress

TV shows
  
Castle Haven


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Died
  
March 13, 1993, London, United Kingdom

Movies
  
The Prime of Miss Jean Bro, Haunted Honeymoon, Once Upon a Crime, The Dresser, Crystalstone

Similar People
  
Mark Herman, Peter Yates, Shirley Steedman, Ronald Neame, Gene Wilder

Ann Way (14 November 1915 – 13 March 1993) was an English character actress in film and television. Born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, she began her career in repertory in Dundee in the 1960s.

Her petite build and distinctively deep-set eyes saw her frequently typecast as a stereotypically dotty or timid and mouse-like spinster. She nonetheless appeared in a wide range of roles, including the television series Dr Finlay's Casebook, Emmerdale Farm where she played an aunt of publican and newspaper correspondent Amos Brearly, Fawlty Towers (where she memorably played the Colonel's wife inadvertently served the raw red mullet in "Gourmet Night") and Rumpole of the Bailey as Dodo Mackintosh. She also read the Mrs. Pepperpot books on the children's series Jackanory.

Film roles included Carry On Loving (1970), Endless Night (1972) and Clockwise (1986) (in which she sang the Vivian Ellis standard This is my Lovely Day on the soundtrack and made comic use of the repeated line "Aren't we all such lucky people") and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) (where she played the headmistress's secretary, Miss Gaunt). A more unusual role was the 1987 short film Unusual Ground Floor Conversion in which she played an old lady gradually driving her downstairs neighbour mad by throwing water out of her window every few minutes.

Way died in London in 1993.

Selected filmography

  • The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) – Sixth Former (uncredited)
  • The Hands of Orlac (1960) – Seamstress (uncredited)
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) – Miss Gaunt
  • Twinky (1970) – School Miss-tress
  • Carry On Loving (1970) – Aunt Victoria Grubb
  • Hands of the Ripper (1971) – Seamstress (uncredited)
  • Follow Me! (1972) – Cinema box-office attendant (uncredited)
  • Endless Night (1972) – Mrs. Dorothy Philpott
  • Jabberwocky (1977) – Merchant's Wife (uncredited)
  • The Sailor's Return (1978) – Mrs. Clall
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) – Miss Smith
  • Bullshot (1983) – Hotel Guest
  • The Dresser (1983) – Miss White
  • Brazil (1985) – Old Lady with Dog
  • Clockwise (1986) – Mrs. Way
  • Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Rachel
  • Crystalstone (1987) – Housekeeper
  • The Dawning (1988) – George Brabazon
  • Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother (1990) – Margot
  • How's Business (1991) – Miss Jolly
  • Once Upon a Crime (1992) – Housekeeper
  • Anchoress (1993) – Alice (final film role)
  • References

    Ann Way Wikipedia


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