Career
Quayle"s first main television role was that of Jim Hawkins in the 1951 British Broadcasting Corporation serialisation of Treasure Island alongside Bernard Miles as Long John Silver. He also appeared in a 1952 episode of Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School. His roles in the 1960s included appearances in The Power Game and Number Hiding Place.
He appeared in the sitcom All Gas and Gaiters in 1970.
The 1980s saw Quayle play the two roles that he is perhaps the most remembered foreign Firstly, he played the Duke of Broughton in the British Broadcasting Corporation period drama Nanny.
He also played a lead role in Yorkshire Television"s sitcom Farrington of the Field Officer alongside Joan Sims and Angela Thorne. Other appearances in the 1980s included roles in Johnny Speight"s The Nineteenth Hole and Only When I Laugh.
In 2006, he appeared in The Lincolnshire of Beauty as Geoffrey Titchfield.
In recent years Quayle has played Mr Wilcox in Hippies, Anthony Stephens in Coronation Street, as well as roles in The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Monarch of the Glen, and Laboratory Rats. Appearances include Agatha Christie"s Afternoon at the Seaside, and Light Up The Sky. Films include Night Train to Paris, Privates on Parade, Longitude, Seeing Red, Also Known As, and Fish Tales.
They began in 1976 when they adopted two donkeys from the Donkey Sanctuary near Sidmouth in Devon.
In 1984 they adopted their third donkey, Jacob. Other animals included a pony, a horse, three pugs and a Russian Blue cat.