John Grillo
Known for Acting · 62 credits
- Born
- 1942-11-29 (age 83)
- Place of birth
- Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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.
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Known For
TV Shows (33)
EastEnders
1985
as Mr. Makepeace
Play for Today
1970
as The Vet
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
as Judge Teasdale
Foyle's War
2002
as Watchmaker
The Bill
1984
Blackadder
1983
as Dr. Leech
Taggart
1983
Lovejoy
1986
as 'Snip' Saunders
Cracker
1993
as Simon Appleby
Between the Lines
1992
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
as Boatman
The Darling Buds of May
1991
as Mr. Jerebohm
Dick Turpin
1979
as Nightingale
Lady Killers
1980
as Mr. Manners
Brideshead Revisited
1981
as Mr Samgrass
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
as Dr Tittle
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Naphta
Shackleton
2002
as Franks
The Grand
1997
as Mr Bunner
Oliver Twist
1999
as Mr Grimwig
Maisie Raine
1998
as Franco Lucantoni
Three Up, Two Down
1985
as Wilf Perkins
Cribb
1980
as Goldstein
Brass
1983
as Seymour Pugh
Chalk
1997
as Mr. Carkdale
Scorpion Tales
1978
as Military Official
Freud
1984
as Delboeuf
A Little Princess
1987
as Barrow
Fiddlers Three
1991
as N J Simpson
Johnny and the Dead
1995
as Antonio Vicenti
Mr Don & Mr George
1993
as Major
Chessgame
1983
Beech is Back
2001
Movies (29)
Brazil
1985
as Interview Official
Firefox
1982
as Customs Officer
Orlando
1992
as First Official
Scum
1979
as Mr Goodyear
Jack & Sarah
1995
as Landlord
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Dr. Legear
A Murder of Quality
1991
as The Pathologist
Danny the Champion of the World
1989
as Mr Parker
Blame It on the Bellboy
1992
as Hotel Manager
King Lear
1982
as Oswald
Amy
1984
as Bell
Max and Helen
1990
as Joseph Weiss
A Christmas Carol
1977
as Caroline's Husband
Chocky
1984
as Sir William Thorbe
Gaskin
1983
as Solicitor
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
as Von Behr
The Cold War Killers
1986
as Jake Shapiro
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
1980
as Bank Official
B&B
1992
as Mr Dudley
The Lady of the Camellias
1976
as Joseph
Afterward
1983
as Harold Parvis
August Saturday
1990
as Hans
Heather Ann
1983
as Ferguson
Out of the Shadows
1988
as Markos Togas
Dog Ends
1984
as The Vet
The 17th Bride
1985
Enemy
1976
as The Policeman
Dyn Amo
1972
as 2nd Girl's Partner
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
1988
as Gebze
About John Grillo
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. Samgra… With 62 credits spanning from 1970 to 2002, John Grillo has appeared in 29 films and 33 TV shows.
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- Brazil (1985) — as Interview Official
- Firefox (1982) — as Customs Officer
- Orlando (1992) — as First Official
- Scum (1979) — as Mr Goodyear
- Jack & Sarah (1995) — as Landlord
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