Ann Way

Ann Way was an English actress who worked in film and television. Born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, she had a petite build and deep-set eyes, and she started out in 1950s repertory in Birmingham before moving to the Dundee Rep. Those features meant she was often cast as a dotty or timid, mouse-like spinster, though she played a wide range of parts. Her television work included Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Emmerdale Farm, Fawlty Towers, Rumpole of the Bailey, and Last of the Summer Wine, and she read the Mrs. Pepperpot books on Jackanory. On film she appeared in Carry On Loving (1970), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Endless Night (1972), and Clockwise (1986). In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie she played Miss Gaunt, the headmistress's secretary. She also appeared in Unusual Ground Floor Conversion, a short film from 1987. She died in London in 1993.