John Grillo

John Grillo

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.

  • Title: John Grillo
  • Popularity: 2.745
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1942-11-29
  • Place of Birth: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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John Grillo Movies

  • 1979
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    Scum

    Scum

    7.1 1979 HD

    Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

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  • 1977
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    6.6 1977 HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

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  • 1992
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    Blame It on the Bellboy

    Blame It on the Bellboy

    5.3 1992 HD

    Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a...

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  • 1989
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    Danny the Champion of the World

    Danny the Champion of the World

    6.2 1989 HD

    Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a...

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  • 2001
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    The Affair of the Necklace

    The Affair of the Necklace

    5.6 2001 HD

    In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from...

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  • 1984
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    Chocky

    Chocky

    1 1984 HD

    Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his...

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  • 1983
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    Gaskin

    Gaskin

    1 1983 HD

    Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.

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  • 1990
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    Max and Helen

    Max and Helen

    6 1990 HD

    In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated...

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  • 1986
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    The Cold War Killers

    The Cold War Killers

    1 1986 HD

    A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.

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  • 1990
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    August Saturday

    August Saturday

    1 1990 HD

    Grania did something 15 years ago that brought her great happiness but also great pain. The events of that day have been a heavy secret to bear that,...

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  • 1985
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    The 17th Bride

    The 17th Bride

    7 1985 HD

    Based on Ladislav Grossman's novel "The Bride", this drama was filmed back in 1984 in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, then the crew stopped filming, because...

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  • 1972
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    Dyn Amo

    Dyn Amo

    6.1 1972 HD

    'Dyn Amo' is a 'drama' exploring the distinction between a person's self and his projection of that self to others; and it's a 'horror movie'...

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  • 1988
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    The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

    The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

    4 1988 HD

    In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous...

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  • 1995
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    Jack & Sarah

    Jack & Sarah

    6.7 1995 HD

    Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home....

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  • 1976
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    The Lady of the Camellias

    The Lady of the Camellias

    1 1976 HD

    The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a...

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  • 1988
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    Out of the Shadows

    Out of the Shadows

    6 1988 HD

    A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.

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  • 1982
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    Firefox

    Firefox

    6 1982 HD

    The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as...

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  • 1976
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    Enemy

    Enemy

    8 1976 HD

    Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.

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  • 1984
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    Dog Ends

    Dog Ends

    1 1984 HD

    A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a...

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  • 1980
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    The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

    The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

    6.1 1980 HD

    A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.

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  • 1982
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    6 1982 HD

    King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

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  • 1985
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    Brazil

    Brazil

    7.671 1985 HD

    Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a...

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  • 1991
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    A Murder of Quality

    A Murder of Quality

    5.476 1991 HD

    At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just...

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  • 1992
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    Orlando

    Orlando

    6.9 1992 HD

    England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to...

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  • 1983
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    Afterward

    Afterward

    1 1983 HD

    A skeptical family moves into their new home despite warnings of a resident ghost. They soon become believers.

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  • 1984
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    Amy

    Amy

    10 1984 HD

    The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber

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  • 1992
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    B&B

    B&B

    6 1992 HD

    An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.

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  • 1983
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    Heather Ann

    Heather Ann

    1 1983 HD

    Cornish fisherman John Lewis is waiting for a stroke of luck which will give him the money to pay his debts and rid himself of his wife and his...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1984
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.6 1984 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

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  • 1983
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    Taggart

    Taggart

    6.316 1983 HD

    Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde...

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  • 1997
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    Chalk

    Chalk

    6.8 1997 HD

    A British television sitcom set in a comprehensive school named Galfast High. Two series written by Steven Moffat were broadcast on BBC1 in 1997....

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  • 1992
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    Between the Lines

    Between the Lines

    5.6 1992 HD

    Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims...

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  • 1975
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    Rumpole of the Bailey

    Rumpole of the Bailey

    7.063 1975 HD

    Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as...

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  • 2002
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    Foyle's War

    Foyle's War

    7.846 2002 HD

    As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War...

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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.3 1986 HD

    The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

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  • 1981
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    Brideshead Revisited

    Brideshead Revisited

    7.9 1981 HD

    Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years...

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  • 2001
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    Beech is Back

    Beech is Back

    1 2001 HD

    Beech is Back was a storyline in the long-running police procedural television series, The Bill.

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  • 1983
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    Chessgame

    Chessgame

    6 1983 HD

    Chessgame is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1983. Based on a series of novels by Anthony Price,...

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  • 1978
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1978 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

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  • 1993
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    Cracker

    Cracker

    6.5 1993 HD

    The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

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  • 1998
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    Maisie Raine

    Maisie Raine

    1 1998 HD

    Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 – 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke took the lead role...

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  • 1985
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    EastEnders

    EastEnders

    4.1 1985 HD

    The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End...

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  • 1983
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.976 1983 HD

    Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle...

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  • 2002
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    Shackleton

    Shackleton

    6.909 2002 HD

    The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship...

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  • 1991
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    Fiddlers Three

    Fiddlers Three

    1 1991 HD

    Sitcom following the office politics in an accounts department. A sequel to The Squirrels.

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 1980
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    Lady Killers

    Lady Killers

    5 1980 HD

    Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the...

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  • 1999
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    6.3 1999 HD

    Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

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  • 1988
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    The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

    The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

    1 1988 HD

    This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik...

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  • 1985
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    Three Up, Two Down

    Three Up, Two Down

    5.6 1985 HD

    Comedy series about Nick and Angie, a young married couple, Angie's snobbish mother Daphne, and Nick's cockney father Sam. Much of the humour arises...

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  • 1985
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    Three Up, Two Down

    Three Up, Two Down

    5.6 1985 HD

    Comedy series about Nick and Angie, a young married couple, Angie's snobbish mother Daphne, and Nick's cockney father Sam. Much of the humour arises...

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  • 1987
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    A Little Princess

    A Little Princess

    7.525 1987 HD

    Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a...

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  • 1991
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    The Darling Buds of May

    The Darling Buds of May

    7.8 1991 HD

    An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa...

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