John Grillo
{{short description|British actor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = John Grillo
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = John Martin Grillo
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|11|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = Watford, Hertfordshire, England
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1972–present
}}
John Martin Grillo (born 29 November 1942, in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English actor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2b6832a|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507105141/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2b6832a|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 May 2018|title=John Grillo|website=BFI}}{{Cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/10tn/john-grillo|title=John Grillo | Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}
Biography
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.ADC Theatre Archives{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/grillo-john-1942|title=Grillo, John 1942– | Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
He played Mr. Samgrass in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited, and Phillip Marriott QC in Crown Court.{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/536563/credits.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Brideshead Revisited (1981) Credits|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8758446c|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807220656/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8758446c|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 August 2019|title=Told in Silence Part 3 (1983)|website=BFI}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=25550|title=John Grillo|website=www.aveleyman.com}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007bqgs|title=BBC One - Three Up, Two Down, Series 2, Ill Met by Candlelight|website=BBC}}
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.{{cite web |title=Chalk: Series 1 |url=http://www.replaydvd.co.uk/chalk |work=ReplayDVD |accessdate=2008-11-20}}
His film credits include appearances in Scum, A Murder of Quality, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/john-grillo-p28877|title=John Grillo | Movies and Filmography|website=AllMovie}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1972
| Dyn Amo | 2nd Girl's Partner | |
| rowspan="2"| 1979
| Bank Official | |
| Scum
| Goodyear | |
| 1982
| Firefox | Customs Officer | |
| rowspan="2"| 1985
| Brazil | Interview Official | |
| The 17th Bride
| Jonah | |
| 1992
| Hotel Manager | |
| rowspan="2"| 1992
| Christopher Columbus: The Discovery | Chios Mapmaker | |
| Orlando
| First Official | |
| 1995
| Landlord | |
| 1997
| Mr. West | |
| 1998
| Jinnah | Sir Dinshaw Petit | |
| 2001
| Dr. Legear | |
| 2002
| Max | Nina's Father | |
| 2018
| Dark Secrets | Frank | Short film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="3"| 1973
| Once Upon a Time | Mirabeau | Episode: "Buttons" |
| Sporting Scenes
| Ballistics Professor | Episode: "England, Their England" |
| The Cricket Match
| Ballistics Professor | Television film |
| 1974
| Intimate Strangers | Frank Vidler | Episode: "Episode #1.1" |
| rowspan="2"| 1976
| Joseph | 2 episodes |
| Enemy
| The Policeman | Television film |
| 1977
| Caroline's Husband | Television film |
| 1978
| Ministry Official | Episode: "Truth or Consequence" |
| rowspan="4"| 1979
| Nightingale | 2 episodes |
| ITV Playhouse
| Booking Clerk | Episode: "No Mama No" |
| Prince Regent
| Pietro Cuchi | Episode: "Defeat and Victory" |
| Collision Course
| Dacjic | Television film |
| rowspan="2"| 1980
| Cribb | Goldstein | Episode: "Swing, Swing Together" |
| A Question of Guilt
| Mr. Norton | 6 episodes |
| rowspan="1"| 1980–1984
| The Vet/Smith | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="5"| 1981
| Herr Schontz | Television film |
| Ladykillers
| Mr. Manners | Episode: "The Darlingest Boy" |
| Brideshead Revisited
| Mr. Samgrass | 3 episodes |
| Rules of Justice
| Mr. Shine | Television film |
| The Borgias
| Don Diego Ibanez | Episode: "Part 10" |
| rowspan="3"| 1982
| King Lear | Oswald | Television film |
| Shine On Harvey Moon
| Boatman | Episode: "The Course of True Love" |
| Crown Court
| Dr. Bernard Massey/Philip Marriott QC | 5 episodes |
| rowspan="5"| 1983
| Gaskin | Solicitor | Television film |
| The Campaign
| USDAW-sponsored MP | Television film |
| Shades of Darkness
| Harold Parvis | Episode: "Afterward" |
| Heather Ann
| Ferguson | Television film |
| Chessgame
| Jake Shapiro | Episode: "Flying Blind" |
| rowspan="8"| 1984
| Amy | Bell | Television film |
| Chocky
| Sir William Thorbe | Episode: "Episode #1.5" |
| Strangers and Brothers
| Arthur Brown | 3 episodes |
| Murder Not Proven?
| The Rev. Goodman | Episode: "Death on the Mountain" |
| Brass
| Seymour Pugh | Episode: "Episode #2.5" |
| Weekend Playhouse
| Neighbour | Episode: "Not That Kind of People" |
| Freud
| Delboeuf | Episode: "The Hypnotist" |
| The Gentle Touch
| Mr Armour | Episode: "Cure" |
| rowspan="3"| 1985
| The Price | Jacobs | Episode: "Episode #1.3" |
| Blott on the Landscape
| Prime | Episode: "A Phone Call" |
| The Holy Experiment
| Father Lieberman SJ | Television film |
| rowspan="1"| 1985–1986
| Mog | Sir Peter Wakefield | 4 episodes |
| rowspan="1"| 1985–1987
| Dr. Sigmund 'Siggy' Gunz | 17 episodes |
| rowspan="1"| 1985–1989
| Wilf Perkins | 16 episodes |
| rowspan="8"| 1986
| Dr. Leech | Episode: "Bells" |
| EastEnders
| Mr. Makepeace | Episode: "Episode #1.128" |
| A Very Peculiar Practice
| Dr. Tittle | Episode: "Catastrophy Theory" |
| Big Deal
| Ben | Episode: "Following in Father's Footsteps" |
| Call Me Mister
| Laszlo | Episode: "The Carve Up" |
| Paradise Postponed
| Lawyer | Episode: "The Simcox Inheritance" |
| The Alamut Ambush
| Jake Shapiro | Television film |
| Cold War Killers
| Jake Shapiro | Television film |
| rowspan="6"| 1987
| Barrow | 2 episodes |
| Don't Wait Up
| Mr. Bindman | Episode: "Episode #4.5" |
| Queenie
| Johan Krauss | Episode: "Episode #1.2" |
| A Perfect Spy
| Cunningham | Episode: "Episode #1.2" |
| The Bretts
| Theo Vanderpump | Episode: "Forbidden Fruit: Part Two" |
| Bergerac
| Cyril Clavering | Episode: "Treasure Hunt" |
| rowspan="5"| 1988
| The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Naphta | Episode: "Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain'" |
| Out of the Shadows
| Markos Togas | Television film |
| Taggart
| Tibor Meray | 2 episodes |
| The Most Dangerous Man in the World
| Gebze | Television film |
| Rumpole of the Bailey
| Judge Teasdale | Episode: "Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation" |
| rowspan="4"| 1989
| Danny the Champion of the World | Mr. Parker | Television film |
| The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
| von Behr | Television film |
| Mother Love
| Art Critic | Episode: "Episode #1.2" |
| 4 Play
| Cantor | Episode: "Shalom Joan Collins" |
| rowspan="4"| 1990
| Joseph Weiss | Television film |
| Capital City
| Ramowski | Episode: "Ethical Investments" |
| This Is David Harper
| Graham Grindle | Episode: "An Explosive Situation" |
| Screenplay
| Hans | Episode: "August Saturday" |
| rowspan="7"| 1991
| N.J. Simpson | Episode: "The Whiz Kid" |
| The Darling Buds of May
| Mr. Jerebohm | 2 episodes |
| Roy's Raiders
| Theatre Director | Episode: "Episode #1.3" |
| Titmuss Regained
| Barty Pine | Episode: "And the Next Day..." |
| A Murder of Quality
| The Pathologist | Television film |
| Watt on Earth
| Jemadah | 4 episodes |
| Boon
| Edwin Brett | Episode: "Stamp Duty" |
| rowspan="1"| 1991–1992
| The Bill | Ventham/Marsen | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="5"| 1992
| Tailor | Episode: "Episode #3.3" |
| Moon and Son
| Bertrand | Episode: "A Foreign Body" |
| Spatz
| Stubbs | Episode: "Driving Miss Wesley" |
| B&B
| Mr. Berry | Television film |
| Between the Lines
| Solicitor | Episode: "Lest Ye Be Judged" |
| rowspan="5"| 1993
| Major | Episode: "You Can Run...But You Can't Hide Your Legs" |
| Crimewatch File
| Episode: "A Murderer's Game" |
| Lovejoy
| 'Snip' Saunders | Episode: "The Kakiemon Tiger" |
| Bookmark
| Dr. Bronowski | Episode: "Selected Exits" |
| Cracker
| Simon Appleby | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="1"| 1993–1998
| Albert Squeers/Herr Klugman | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="2"| 1994
| Oscar William Leonard "Owly" Johnstone | 2 episodes |
| Time After Time
| Gilpin | Episode: "Breaking Out" |
| 1995
| Antonio Vicenti | 4 episodes |
| 1996
| Bramwell | Mr. Johnson | Episode: "Episode #2.8" |
| 1997
| Chalk | Mr. Carkdale | 12 episodes |
| rowspan="3"| 1998
| The Grand | Mr. Bunner | Episode: "Episode #2.5" |
| The Broker's Man
| Solomon | Episode: "Kith and Kin" |
| Maisie Raine
| Franco Lucantoni | Episode: "An Ordinary Little Tragedy" |
| 1999
| Mr. Grimwig | 3 episodes |
| 2000
| Trust | Dr. Ian Matthews | Television film |
| 2001
| Beech Is Back | Dr. Morgan Philips | Episode: "Episode #1.2" |
| 2002
| Franks | 2 episodes |
| 2004
| Watchmaker | Episode: "The French Drop" |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0342038|name=John Grillo}}
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Category:English male stage actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:Male actors from Watford
Category:People educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys
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