John Grillo
Acting • Born 1942-11-29
Biography
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
62 credits
Scum
Movie • 1979
Mr Goodyear
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 1977
Caroline's Husband
Blame It on the Bellboy
Movie • 1992
Hotel Manager
Danny the Champion of the World
Movie • 1989
Mr Parker
The Affair of the Necklace
Movie • 2001
Dr. Legear
Chocky
Movie • 1984
Sir William Thorbe
Gaskin
Movie • 1983
Solicitor
Max and Helen
Movie • 1990
Joseph Weiss
The Cold War Killers
Movie • 1986
Jake Shapiro
August Saturday
Movie • 1990
Hans
The 17th Bride
Movie • 1985
Dyn Amo
Movie • 1972
2nd Girl's Partner
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Movie • 1988
Von Behr
Jack & Sarah
Movie • 1995
Landlord
The Lady of the Camellias
Movie • 1976
Joseph
Out of the Shadows
Movie • 1988
Markos Togas
Firefox
Movie • 1982
Customs Officer
Enemy
Movie • 1976
The Policeman
Dog Ends
Movie • 1984
The Vet
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
Movie • 1980
Bank Official
King Lear
Movie • 1982
Oswald
Brazil
Movie • 1985
Interview Official
A Murder of Quality
Movie • 1991
The Pathologist
Orlando
Movie • 1992
First Official
Afterward
Movie • 1983
Harold Parvis
Amy
Movie • 1984
Bell
B&B
Movie • 1992
Mr Dudley
Heather Ann
Movie • 1983
Ferguson
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Movie • 1988
Gebze
The Bill
TV • 1984
Taggart
TV • 1983
Chalk
TV • 1997
Mr. Carkdale
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV • 1975
Judge Teasdale
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Watchmaker
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
'Snip' Saunders
Beech is Back
TV • 2001
Chessgame
TV • 1983
Cracker
TV • 1993
Simon Appleby
Maisie Raine
TV • 1998
Franco Lucantoni
EastEnders
TV • 1985
Mr. Makepeace
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Dr. Leech
Fiddlers Three
TV • 1991
N J Simpson
Play for Today
TV • 1970
The Vet
Lady Killers
TV • 1980
Mr. Manners
Oliver Twist
TV • 1999
Mr Grimwig
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
TV • 1988
Naphta
Three Up, Two Down
TV • 1985
Wilf Perkins
Three Up, Two Down
TV • 1985
Wilf
The Darling Buds of May
TV • 1991
Mr. Jerebohm
Dick Turpin
TV • 1979
Nightingale
Shine on Harvey Moon
TV • 1982
Boatman
Mr Don & Mr George
TV • 1993
Major
Shackleton
TV • 2002
Franks
Johnny and the Dead
TV • 1995
Antonio Vicenti
Scorpion Tales
TV • 1978
Military Official
Brass
TV • 1983
Seymour Pugh
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV • 1986
Dr Tittle
Brideshead Revisited
TV • 1981
Mr Samgrass
Freud
TV • 1984
Delboeuf
A Little Princess
TV • 1987
Barrow
The Grand
TV • 1997
Mr Bunner