John Quarmby

John Quarmby

Acting
1929-06-18
Liverpool, England, UK

Biography

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

Known For & Full Filmography44 Titles

#1Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Car Thief

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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#2BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#3BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Mereshchun

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#4BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Sushkin

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#5Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Museum Keeper

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#6Van der Valk

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Zondag

6.2 / 10
Drama

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

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#7Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Barrister

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

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#8The Comic Strip Presents...

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Party Guest

7.4 / 10
Comedy

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.

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#9BBC2 Play of the Week

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Harry

7.0 / 10
DramaComedy

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

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#10Howards' Way

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Fisherman

5.9 / 10
DramaSoap

The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.

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#11Fawlty Towers

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Mr. Carnegie

8.3 / 10
Comedy

Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.

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#12The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Court Attendant

7.5 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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#13The Chronicles of Narnia

Drama Series - 1988, 16 episodes as Grumpus

7.5 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

The Chronicles of Narnia is a British television miniseries adapting four of C.S. Lewis's books, blending live-action with animation for fantasy elements like Aslan and the creatures. The first series—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—aired from 13 November to 18 December 1988; the second—Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader—aired from 19 November to 24 December 1989; and the third—The Silver Chair—from 18 November to 23 December 1990. Each series consists of six episodes each.

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#14Softly, Softly

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
DramaCrime

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

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#15Doomwatch

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as PM's Secretary

6.4 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.

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#16Callan

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.

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#17Fall of Eagles

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Lamsdorf

7.0 / 10
Drama

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).

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#18Porridge

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Prison Officer

8.1 / 10
Comedy

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.

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#19Warship

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s, most stories focus on the Captain and his fellow officers, with subplots dealing with life on the lower decks. Episodes typically featured a variety of events at sea (the Cold War, smuggling, the evacuation of civilians from crisis-hit places, etc.), as well as the personal lives of officers and ratings and the impact their personal lives had on their professional lives and duties.

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#20Oliver Twist

Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes as Richard Leeford

6.3 / 10
Drama

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

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#21Cribb

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as DI Moser

8.0 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

Victorian England, the late 1800s: Detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb of the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.

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#22The Queen's Nose

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Snouch

7.2 / 10
Comedy

Children's series about a magic coin that can grant wishes.

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#23Get Carter

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Second Gambler (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
CrimeThriller

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

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#241990

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Drama

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

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#25A Christmas Carol

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Mr. Hacking

7.5 / 10
DramaFantasyTV Movie

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

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#26Thirteen at Dinner

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Sir Montague's Butler

5.8 / 10
CrimeMystery

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.

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#27The Invisible Man

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Const. Charlie Jaffers

7.3 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama

A deranged scientist discovers a formula by which to make himself invisible, but is driven mad by his inability to reverse the formula and is evoked to use his invisibility to terrorise those around him.

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#28Restoration

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as The Chancellor

6.1 / 10
DramaRomance

An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

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#29The Scarlet Pimpernel

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Ponceau

6.7 / 10
RomanceTV MovieAdventure

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin

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#30K-9 and Company

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

A one-episode television pilot for a proposed 1981 spin-off of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features former series regulars Sarah Jane Smith, an investigative journalist played by Elisabeth Sladen, and K9, a robotic dog voiced by John Leeson. Both characters had been companions of the Fourth Doctor but they had not appeared together before. The single episode, A Girl's Best Friend was broadcast by BBC1 as a Christmas special on 28 December 1981 but was not taken up for a continuing series.

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#31Florence Nightingale

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as 4th Member

6.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.

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#32Arthur the King

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Sir Kai

3.5 / 10
TV MovieFantasyAdventure

Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunately falls in love with her. Forbidden love, revenge, family rivalry, and magic are all prominent themes.

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#33The Chester Mystery Plays

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.

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#34Didn't You Kill My Brother?

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Party Guest

8.8 / 10
Comedy

Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.

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#35The Importance of Being Earnest

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Merriman

5.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

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#36The Love-Girl and the Innocent

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Mereshchun

5.6 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving ten years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.

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#37K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Henry Tobias

5.7 / 10
TV MovieMysterySci-Fi

Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood, only to find that Lavinia is nowhere to be found and that the Doctor has left her a parting gift in K·9 Mark III. With the help of K·9 and Lavinia's young ward Brendan Richards, Sarah Jane starts investigating her aunt's disappearance. In the process, they discover that Moreton Harwood is home to a coven worshipping the pagan god Hecate and preparing for a human sacrifice...

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#38The Weather in the Streets

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Mr. Treadeven

4.3 / 10
DramaRomanceTV Movie

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.

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#39Ladies

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Doctor

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

MIRIAM: "Here we are; celebrating a marriage, eating a cake, drinking, standing in a uniform, standing in a canteen ... with a Teasmade and a red red garter ... and I want an explanation." VALERIE: "I want to know why you all resent me." BRENDA: "Because you're not one of us."

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#40The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Gumpas

6.1 / 10
FantasyAdventureFamily

Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.

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#41I Don't Speak English

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
Comedy

If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and son and reaches a school full of terrible kids. Obviously he is the only adult and the worse student. Learning English hasn't been never so hard.

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#42Sons and Lovers

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Mr Winterbottom

8.8 / 10
DramaHistory

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

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#43Stones

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Keeper at Museum

9.0 / 10
TV MovieDramaMystery

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).

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#44Another Day

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Harry

8.8 / 10

The London of bed-sits, rundown housing, a world of the eccentric and the lonely. Since her husband walked out Eileen battles on her own to make a life for her children. She needs someone-but some people don't think George is the right man.

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