John Grillo
Actor
Biography
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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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Filmography
Firefox
as Customs Officer 1982
Orlando
as First Official 1992
Scum
as Mr Goodyear 1979
The Affair of the Necklace
as Dr. Legear 2001
Blame It on the Bellboy
as Hotel Manager 1992
Jack & Sarah
as Landlord 1995
A Murder of Quality
as The Pathologist 1991
Danny the Champion of the World
as Mr Parker 1989
A Christmas Carol
as Caroline's Husband 1977
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
as Bank Official 1980
Dyn Amo
as 2nd Girl's Partner 1972
King Lear
as Oswald 1982
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
as Von Behr 1988
Max and Helen
as Joseph Weiss 1990
The Cold War Killers
as Jake Shapiro 1986
The 17th Bride
1985