John Grillo
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 29, 1942 (age 83)
- Birthplace
- 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. 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.
Known For
Filmography
Foyle's War
TV · as Watchmaker · 1 ep
Shackleton
TV · as Franks · 1 ep
The Affair of the Necklace
Movie · as Dr. Legear
Beech is Back
TV · 4 eps
Oliver Twist
TV · as Mr Grimwig · 4 eps
Maisie Raine
TV · as Franco Lucantoni · 1 ep
Chalk
TV · as Mr. Carkdale · 12 eps
The Grand
TV · as Mr Bunner · 1 ep
Jack & Sarah
Movie · as Landlord
Johnny and the Dead
TV · as Antonio Vicenti · 4 eps
Cracker
TV · as Simon Appleby · 2 eps
Mr Don & Mr George
TV · as Major · 1 ep
Blame It on the Bellboy
Movie · as Hotel Manager
Orlando
Movie · as First Official
B&B
Movie · as Mr Dudley
Between the Lines
TV · 1 ep
A Murder of Quality
Movie · as The Pathologist
Fiddlers Three
TV · as N J Simpson · 1 ep
The Darling Buds of May
TV · as Mr. Jerebohm · 2 eps
Max and Helen
Movie · as Joseph Weiss
August Saturday
Movie · as Hans
Danny the Champion of the World
Movie · as Mr Parker
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Movie · as Von Behr
Out of the Shadows
Movie · as Markos Togas
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Movie · as Gebze
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
TV · as Naphta · 1 ep
A Little Princess
TV · as Barrow · 2 eps
The Cold War Killers
Movie · as Jake Shapiro
Lovejoy
TV · as 'Snip' Saunders · 1 ep
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV · as Dr Tittle · 1 ep
The 17th Bride
Movie
Brazil
Movie · as Interview Official
EastEnders
TV · as Mr. Makepeace · 1 ep
Three Up, Two Down
TV · as Wilf Perkins · 1 ep
Blott on the Landscape
TV · as Prime · 1 ep
Chocky
Movie · as Sir William Thorbe
Dog Ends
Movie · as The Vet
Amy
Movie · as Bell
The Bill
TV · 1 ep
Freud
TV · as Delboeuf · 1 ep
Gaskin
Movie · as Solicitor
Afterward
Movie · as Harold Parvis
Heather Ann
Movie · as Ferguson
Taggart
TV · 1 ep
Chessgame
TV · 6 eps
Blackadder
TV · as Dr. Leech · 1 ep
Brass
TV · as Seymour Pugh · 1 ep
Firefox
Movie · as Customs Officer
King Lear
Movie · as Oswald
Shine on Harvey Moon
TV · as Boatman · 1 ep
Brideshead Revisited
TV · as Mr Samgrass · 3 eps
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
Movie · as Bank Official
Lady Killers
TV · as Mr. Manners · 1 ep
Cribb
TV · as Goldstein · 1 ep
A Question of Guilt
TV · as Mr Norton · 6 eps
Scum
Movie · as Mr Goodyear
Dick Turpin
TV · as Nightingale · 1 ep
Scorpion Tales
TV · as Military Official · 1 ep
A Christmas Carol
Movie · as Caroline's Husband
The Lady of the Camellias
Movie · as Joseph
Enemy
Movie · as The Policeman
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV · as Judge Teasdale · 1 ep
Dyn Amo
Movie · as 2nd Girl's Partner
Play for Today
TV · as The Vet · 1 ep