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.
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.
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