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 AngloSaxon in two series of Steven Moffats schoolsitcom 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 Grillolicensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia