Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 14, 1915
Died
Mar 13, 1993
Place of Birth
Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England, UK
Credits
42 titles
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
Filmography
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Mrs. Hall (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anchoress
Alice
Once Upon a Crime
Housekeeper
How's Business
Miss Jolly
Close to Home
Mrs Crosby
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
Margot
The Dawning
George Brabazon
Dead Lucky
Lena Finn
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Old Woman
Crystalstone
Housekeeper
David Copperfield
Mrs Heep
Haunted Honeymoon
Rachel
Clockwise
Mrs. Way
Lovejoy
Mrs Thomas
Brazil
Old Lady with Dog
The Bill
Long Live the Babe
Rosie
The Dresser
Miss White
Q.E.D.
Minnie
The Pigman's Protege
Gregoria Windy
Bread or Blood
Mrs Tucker
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Miss Smith
Whinfrey's Last Case
Old Lady (Lotte)
Shoestring
Mrs Atwell
Thundercloud
Gladys Teesdale
The Sailor's Return
Mrs Clall
The Clifton House Mystery
Mrs Rowley
All Creatures Great and Small
Matilda Dunn
Mind Your Language
Mrs Hunter
Rumpole of the Bailey
Dodo Mackintosh
Fawlty Towers
Mrs. Hall
Playhouse
Georgina Windy
Endless Night
Mrs. Philpott
The Goodies
Carry On Loving
Aunt Victoria Grubb
Shadows of Fear
Miss Wills
Castle Haven
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Miss Gaunt
The Jazz Age
Mrs. Prescott
All Gas and Gaiters
Mrs Plummer
King of the River
Judy
Theatre 625
Mrs Winstanley