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