BRITISH CHARACTER ACTOR SIR ANTHONY QUAYLE DIES

Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, the British actor whose deep voice, burly figure and penetrating glance helped bring him prominence on the Broadway stage and in Hollywood films, including "Sleuth" and "Lawrence of Arabia," died yesterday in London. He had cancer. A trouper in the truest sense, whose stage career began 58 years ago, he played Shakespeare and soldiers, kings and commoners, with an intelligence and insight that won him recognition as a versatile and able character actor as well as a distinguished interpreter of the classics. A member in the 1930s of Britain's celebrated Old Vic company, Sir Anthony served in the British Army throughout World War II, and afterward became director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon, as well as a mainstay of many Hollywood and television productions. One of his most memorable film roles was that of Sir Laurence Olivier's antagonist in the film version of "Sleuth," in which Sir Anthony also starred on the stages of Broadway and London's West End. Other well-known parts included Col. Brighton in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) and Cardinal Wolsey in "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1970). In that movie, about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his worldly-wise portrayal of the prelate ("Where the dove is the hawk cannot be far behind") won him an Academy Award nomination. Sir Anthony was born Sept. 7, 1913, in Ainsdale, England. His father, Arthur Quayle, was a lawyer, but his passion was the theater, and Sir Anthony was drawn in that direction from youth. After leaving Britain's Rugby School, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for a time, then quit while still in his teens to enter vaudeville as straight man to a music hall comedian. "You had to deliver the goods or get off quick," he said later. In 1931, he began his career as a serious actor with a small part in a production of "Robin Hood." Soon after came the Old Vic and a long string of West End roles. Joining the British Army at the outset of World War II, Sir Anthony rose to the rank of major in the Royal Artillery, during service that included a six-month mission behind enemy lines in Albania, organizing partisans in guerrilla operations against occupying German forces. Assigned later to a headquarters staff in Gibraltar, he began directing plays to entertain the troops, which won notice that brought him his first directing assignment on the London stage after the war. In 1948, he joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company -- which became the Royal Shakespeare Theatre -- as both actor and director. In that same year he also played Marcellus in Olivier's famed film version of "Hamlet." "Sleuth" appeared to mark the first occasion in which Sir Anthony's was able to cash in financially on the theatrical abilities that had previously won him much praise but little money. Before then, he told an interviewer, he was frequently forced to take parts out of financial necessity. "I was in Tarzan films, and 'Fall of the Roman Empire' and one dreary thing after another." The remark appeared to represent objective commentary as much as complaint. While need and energy may have brought him into the occasional potboiler, there were few parts that Shakespeare wrote that Mr. Quayle did not play, and he also acknowledged: "I enjoy life very much." At New York's Lincoln Center in 1967, he was Galileo in Bertold Brecht's play of the same name, and he also appeared in London in works by Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller. He won an Emmy award in 1974 for his work in the television show "QB VII," and he was knighted in 1985. Survivors include his American-born wife, Dorothy. He had a son and two daughters. PERRY H. MILLER Printer Perry H. Miller, 82, a retired printer who was a founding partner in the Hendricks-Miller Typographic Co. here, died Oct. 16 at a retirement home in Escondido, Calif., after a heart attack. He was a printer at The Washington Post, The Washington Star and The Washington Daily News in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he founded Hendricks-Miller Typographic Co. with another printer, Zeke Hendricks. He retired in 1979. Mr. Miller was born in Jerome, Ariz., and came to the Washington area in 1933. A former resident of Alexandria, he moved to California in 1987. Mr. Miller was a 50-year member of Alcoholics Anonomyous. His wife, Margery L. Miller, died in 1984. Survivors include three children, William D. Miller of Warrenton, Va., Dr. James C. Miller of Shelton, Conn., and Dorcas A. Lounsbery of Escondido; a brother, Ted Miller of Mannford, Okla.; a sister, Lois Wienecke of Oklahoma City; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. MELVIN H. MANDELL Real Estate Developer Melvin H. Mandell, 77, a real estate developer and former merchant, died Oct. 20 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had cancer. Mr. Mandell was born in Baltimore and reared in Washington, and he lived in the city until moving to Chevy Chase last year. He was a graduate of Central High School; Southeastern University, where he majored in accounting; and what is now American University law school. In the 1930s, Mr. Mandell owned the Chevy Chase Novelty Store. He also published the Uptown Citizen, a neighborhood newspaper, until selling it about 1950. During World War II, he operated military supply stores at Aberdeen, Md., and Monmouth, N.J. After the war he started the International Sales Co., suppliers of toys and housewares to military post exchanges in the eastern United States. Other interests included Rogers Toy Stores. About 1960, Mr. Mandell went into real estate as a full-time occupation. He worked with several companies on development projects in Washington and the Virginia and Maryland suburbs. He maintained an office in Rockville. He was a member of the Washington Hebrew Congregation and the Jewish Social Service Agency. Survivors incude his wife of 56 years, Libby Mandell of Chevy Chase; three children, Leslie Berger of Bethesda, Judith Elson of Philadelphia and Richard Mandell of Rockville; a sister, Beady Freeman of Washington; and seven grandchildren. RAYMOND L. LUCKETT Patent Office Supervisor Raymond L. Luckett, 85, a retired supervisor in the trademark division of the U.S. Patent Office, died Oct. 14 at Washington Adventist Hospital after a heart attack. Mr. Luckett, who lived in Silver Spring, was born in Washington and began working at the Patent Office in 1922. He retired in 1967. In retirement, he sold real estate in Montgomery County with Wells & Co.. He retired again in 1980. During World War II, he served in the Navy as a ship's cook aboard a minesweeper in the Atlantic. He was an enthusiastic walker and walked about four miles daily. Survivors include his wife, Ruth S. Luckett of Silver Spring; two children, Gwendolyn Hawkins of Silver Spring and Pamela Jean Arnett of Columbia; and two grandchildren.