John Quarmby

John Quarmby (18 June 1929 – 5 April 2019) was an English actor.

Biography Quarmby was born in Liverpool and after two years' national service in the RAF joined RADA in 1949. Repertory work dominated the first twenty years of his career, although he began appearing in television in 1956.

Quarmby played a variety of roles from the 1960s to the 1990s appearing in many long-running drama series such as Z-Cars, Callan, Softly, Softly, Juliet Bravo and Howards' Way. He also appeared in the 1982 television film The Scarlet Pimpernel. He appeared as a prison officer in Porridge in an episode entitled "The Hustler" (1974). He played the role of Mr Carnegie, the Health Inspector in the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat" (1979) and Henry Tobias (the newspaper editor) in K-9 and Company.

Selected filmography Year Title RoleNotes 1960 Scotland Yard Plain Clothes Man Episode: "Night Beat" 1966 Take a Pair of Private Eyes Detective sergeant 1 episode 1967 Z-Cars Station Sergeant Episode: "I Don't Want Evidence" 1971 Get Carter 2nd Gambler Film, Uncredited1974 Fall of Eagles Lamsdorf Episode: "Dearest Nicky" Porridge Prison Officer Episode: "The Hustler" 1979 Fawlty Towers Mr. Carnegie Episode: "Basil the Rat" 1981 K-9 and Company Henry Tobias TV movie 1982 The Scarlet Pimpernel Ponceau TV movie1983 Storyboard Dr Slade 1 Pilot Episode: "Mr. Palfrey of Westminster: The Traitor" Juliet Bravo Solicitor Episode: "Mates" The Weather in the StreetsMr. Treadeven TV movie 1984 A Christmas Carol Mr Hacking TV movie 1985 Thirteen at Dinner Sir Montague's Butler TV movie 1987 Little Dorrit Circumlocution Office Porter Film 1990 The Fool Film 1994 Black Beauty Butler Film1995 I Don't Speak EnglishFilm Restoration The Chancellor Film