
Ann Way
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1915-11-14
Day of Death
1993-03-13 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England, UK
Ann Way
Biography
Ann Way (14 November 1915 – 13 March 1993) was an English film and television character actress. Born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, she began her career in repertory in Birmingham in the 1950s moving from there to the Dundee Rep.
Her petite build and 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 played the vicar's wife in Last of the Summer Wine. 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, England on 13 March 1993.
Known For
Acting
(1993)
Anchoress
as Alice
(1992)
Once Upon a Crime
as Housekeeper
(1991)
How's Business
as Miss Jolly
(1989)
(1988)
The Dawning
as George Brabazon
(1988)
Dead Lucky
as Lena Finn
(1987)
Crystalstone
as Housekeeper
(1986)
Haunted Honeymoon
as Rachel
(1985)
Brazil
as Old Lady with Dog
(1983)
The Dresser
as Miss White
(1982)
The Pigman's Protege
as Gregoria Windy
(1981)
Bread or Blood
as Mrs Tucker
(1980)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Miss Smith
(1979)
Whinfrey's Last Case
as Old Lady (Lotte)
(1978)
The Sailor's Return
as Mrs Clall
(1972)
Endless Night
as Mrs. Philpott
(1970)
Carry On Loving
as Aunt Victoria Grubb
(1969)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
as Miss Gaunt