David Quayle Television South, City Vision, Ritz Video, Granada Group and the Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery. David Quayle David Andrew Quayle (19 August 1936 – 6 April 2010) was a British businessman best known as co-founder of the UK DIY chain B&Q. He worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969. Their idea of large warehouse-style DIY stores copied the style already successfully operating in other European countries, but was unknown in the UK and B&Q soon became the largest retail suppliers of DIY
Anthony Quayle films with him. He was also a close friend of Jack Hawkins and Jack Gwillim; all four actors appeared in "Lawrence of Arabia". Quayle made his Broadway debut in "The Country Wife" in 1936. Thirty-four years later, he won critical acclaim for his starring role in the highly successful Anthony Shaffer play "Sleuth", which earned him a Drama Desk Award. Television appearances include the "Armchair Theatre" episode "The Scent of Fear" (1959) for ITV, the title role in the 1969 ITC drama series "Strange Report" and as French General Villers in the 1988 miniseries adaptation of "The Bourne Identity". He