Biography
John Martin Grillo (born 29 November 1942, in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English actor. Grillo was educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys and 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, Capital City, EastEnders, Blott on the Landscape, Maisie Raine, Mike and Angelo, Bramwell, The Bill, Prince Regent, Cracker, The Darling Buds of May, Foyle's War, The Grand, Taggart, The Broker's Man, Oliver Twist, Mother Love and Rumpole of the Bailey. Grillo performed Oswald in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of King Lear in 1982. He also had a more regular role in Three Up, Two Down, playing the gloomy and pessimistic zoo-keeper Wilf Perkins.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.His film credits include appearances in Scum, A Murder of Quality (film), Firefox, Brazil, Blame It on the Bellboy, Danny the Champion of the World, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Orlando, Jack and Sarah, FairyTale: A True Story, Jinnah, The Affair of the Necklace, and Max.
Filmography
All 43
TV Shows 22
Movies 21

Foyle's War (2002)

Shackleton (2002)

Beech is Back (2001)

Oliver Twist (1999)

Chalk (1997)

Jack & Sarah (1995)

Johnny And The Dead (1995)

Cracker (1993)

Orlando (1992)

Between the Lines (1992)

B&B (1992)

Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)

Watt on Earth (1991)

A Murder of Quality (1991)

Fiddlers Three (1991)

August Saturday (1990)

Max and Helen (1990)

Out of the Shadows (1988)

Lovejoy (1986)

Three Up, Two Down (1985)

Brazil (1985)

EastEnders (1985)

The 17th Bride (1985)

The Bill (1984)

Dog Ends (1984)

Amy (1984)

Chessgame (1983)

Taggart (1983)

Afterward (1983)

Blackadder (1983)

Gaskin (1983)

King Lear (1982)

Firefox (1982)

Bergerac (1981)

Brideshead Revisited (1981)

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1980)

Scum (1979)

BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)

The Lady of the Camellias (1976)

Enemy (1976)

Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)

Dyn Amo (1972)

Play for Today (1970)
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday1942-11-29 (80 years old)
Place of birthWatford, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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