John Grillo
Born: 1942-11-29 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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
2002
- Foyle's War as Watchmaker
- Shackleton as Franks
2001
- The Affair of the Necklace as Dr. Legear
- Beech is Back
1999
- Oliver Twist as Mr Grimwig
1998
- Maisie Raine as Franco Lucantoni
1997
- Chalk as Mr. Carkdale
1995
- Jack & Sarah as Landlord
- Johnny and the Dead as Antonio Vicenti
1993
- Cracker as Simon Appleby
- Mr Don & Mr George as Major
1992
- Between the Lines
- Orlando as First Official
- Blame It on the Bellboy as Hotel Manager
- B&B as Mr Dudley
1991
- The Darling Buds of May as Mr. Jerebohm
- A Murder of Quality as The Pathologist
- Fiddlers Three as N J Simpson
1990
- August Saturday as Hans
- Max and Helen as Joseph Weiss
1989
- Danny the Champion of the World as Mr Parker
1988
- The Most Dangerous Man in the World as Gebze
- Out of the Shadows as Markos Togas
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Naphta
- The Man Who Lived at the Ritz as Von Behr
1987
- A Little Princess as Barrow
1986
- Lovejoy as 'Snip' Saunders
- A Very Peculiar Practice as Dr Tittle
- The Cold War Killers as Jake Shapiro
1985
- EastEnders as Mr. Makepeace
- Brazil as Interview Official
- Three Up, Two Down as Wilf Perkins
- Drummonds ... (Writer)
- The 17th Bride
1983
- Taggart
- Blackadder as Dr. Leech
- Gaskin as Solicitor
- Afterward as Harold Parvis
- Brass as Seymour Pugh
- Chessgame
- Heather Ann as Ferguson
1982
- King Lear as Oswald
- Shine on Harvey Moon as Boatman
- Firefox as Customs Officer
1981
- Brideshead Revisited as Mr Samgrass
1980
- Lady Killers as Mr. Manners
- The Great Riviera Bank Robbery as Bank Official
1979
- Dick Turpin as Nightingale
- Scum as Mr Goodyear
1978
- Scorpion Tales as Military Official
1977
- A Christmas Carol as Caroline's Husband
1976
- The Lady of the Camellias as Joseph
- Enemy as The Policeman
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Judge Teasdale
1973
- 1939 ... (Writer)
1972
- Dyn Amo as 2nd Girl's Partner
1970
- Play for Today as The Vet