Cast & creator
John Grillo
Best known for EastEnders, Play for Today, The Bill
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.
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film credits
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television credits
64
1970–2002 · acting roles
6.8
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (67)
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EastEnders
Mr. Makepeace
1985
Play for Today
The Vet
1970
The Bill
1984
Foyle's War
Watchmaker
2002
Rumpole of the Bailey
Judge Teasdale
1975
Blackadder
Dr. Leech
1983
Taggart
1983
Lovejoy
'Snip' Saunders
1986
Cracker
Simon Appleby
1993
Between the Lines
1992
Shine on Harvey Moon
Boatman
1982
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Naphta
1988
Dick Turpin
Nightingale
1979
The Darling Buds of May
Mr. Jerebohm
1991
Brideshead Revisited
Mr Samgrass
1981
The Grand
Mr Bunner
1997
Lady Killers
Mr. Manners
1980
Cribb
Goldstein
1980A Question of Guilt
Mr Norton
1980
Brazil
Interview Official
1985
A Very Peculiar Practice
Dr Tittle
1986Late Night Theatre
Writer
1972
Brass
Seymour Pugh
1983
Firefox
Customs Officer
1982
Maisie Raine
Franco Lucantoni
1998
Three Up, Two Down
Wilf Perkins
1985Three Up, Two Down
Wilf
1985
Shackleton
Franks
2002
Fiddlers Three
N J Simpson
1991
Oliver Twist
Mr Grimwig
1999
Freud
Delboeuf
1984
A Little Princess
Barrow
1987
Scorpion Tales
Military Official
1978
Chalk
Mr. Carkdale
1997
Scum
Mr Goodyear
1979Drummonds
Writer
1985
Orlando
First Official
1992
Johnny and the Dead
Antonio Vicenti
1995
The Affair of the Necklace
Dr. Legear
2001
Mr Don & Mr George
Major
1993
The Lady of the Camellias
Joseph
1976
Jack & Sarah
Landlord
1995
Blame It on the Bellboy
Hotel Manager
1992
Danny the Champion of the World
Mr Parker
1989
A Murder of Quality
The Pathologist
1991
Chessgame
1983Beech is Back
2001
The Cold War Killers
Jake Shapiro
1986
King Lear
Oswald
1982
Out of the Shadows
Markos Togas
1988
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
Bank Official
1980
Dyn Amo
2nd Girl's Partner
1972
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
Gebze
1988
Max and Helen
Joseph Weiss
1990
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Von Behr
1988
A Christmas Carol
Caroline's Husband
1977
August Saturday
Hans
1990
Gaskin
Solicitor
1983
Amy
Bell
1984
Enemy
The Policeman
1976
Heather Ann
Ferguson
1983
Dog Ends
The Vet
1984
Chocky
Sir William Thorbe
1984
Afterward
Harold Parvis
1983
B&B
Mr Dudley
19921939
Writer
1973