John Grillo

Acting · Writing

Born November 29, 1942, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Grillo (born 29 November 1942, Watford, Hertfordshire) is a British actor and playwright who has appeared in many film and television productions. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and while there was actively involved in student theatre. He performed with Footlights in their annual revue. After Cambridge, he was awarded an Arts Council Playwrighting Bursary and his plays were performed at Nottingham, Glasgow, Oxford and Dublin as well as at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge. He played Mr. Samgrass in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited, and Phillip Marriott QC in Crown Court. He had minor parts in other shows, including Blackadder II ("Bells"), Bergerac, Taggart and Rumpole of the Bailey. In 1997 he appeared as Mr Carkdale, the English teacher who spoke only in Anglo-Saxon, in two series of Steven Moffat's school-sitcom Chalk. In 2008, he contributed to the audio commentary for the DVD release. He is represented by Michelle Braidman Associates. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Grillo,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Foyle's War — Watchmaker
• Shackleton — Franks
• Beech is Back
• 2001The Affair of the Necklace — Dr. Legear
• Oliver Twist — Mr Grimwig
• Maisie Raine — Franco Lucantoni
• Chalk — Mr. Carkdale
• The Grand — Mr Bunner
• 1995Jack & Sarah — Landlord
• Johnny and the Dead — Antonio Vicenti
• Cracker — Simon Appleby
• Mr Don & Mr George — Major
• 1992B&B — Mr Dudley
• Between the Lines
• 1992Blame It on the Bellboy — Hotel Manager
• 1992Orlando — First Official
• 1991A Murder of Quality — The Pathologist
• Fiddlers Three — N J Simpson
• The Darling Buds of May — Mr. Jerebohm
• 1990August Saturday — Hans
• 1990Max and Helen — Joseph Weiss
• 1989Danny the Champion of the World — Mr Parker
• 1988Out of the Shadows — Markos Togas
• 1988The Man Who Lived at the Ritz — Von Behr
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Naphta
• 1988The Most Dangerous Man in the World — Gebze
• A Little Princess — Barrow
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Dr Tittle
• Lovejoy — 'Snip' Saunders
• 1986The Cold War Killers — Jake Shapiro
• Blott on the Landscape — Prime
• 1985Brazil — Interview Official
• Drummonds — Writer
• EastEnders — Mr. Makepeace
• 1985The 17th Bride
• Three Up, Two Down — Wilf Perkins
• 1984Amy — Bell
• 1984Chocky — Sir William Thorbe
• 1984Dog Ends — The Vet
• Freud — Delboeuf
• The Bill
• 1983Afterward — Harold Parvis
• Blackadder — Dr. Leech
• Brass — Seymour Pugh
• Chessgame
• 1983Gaskin — Solicitor
• 1983Heather Ann — Ferguson
• Taggart
• 1982Firefox — Customs Officer
• 1982King Lear — Oswald
• Shine on Harvey Moon — Boatman
• Brideshead Revisited — Mr Samgrass
• A Question of Guilt — Mr Norton
• Cribb — Goldstein
• Lady Killers — Mr. Manners
• 1980The Great Riviera Bank Robbery — Bank Official
• Dick Turpin — Nightingale
• 1979Scum — Mr Goodyear
• Scorpion Tales — Military Official
• 1977A Christmas Carol — Caroline's Husband
• 1976Enemy — The Policeman
• 1976The Lady of the Camellias — Joseph
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Judge Teasdale
• 19731939 — Writer
• 1972Dyn Amo — 2nd Girl's Partner
• Late Night Theatre — Writer
• Play for Today — The Vet