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John Martin Grillo (born 29 November 1942, inWatford,Hertfordshire) is an English actor.^[1][2]

Grillo was educated atWatford Grammar School for Boys andTrinity Hall, Cambridge, and while there was actively involved in student theatre. He performed withFootlights 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 theADC Theatre in Cambridge.^[3][4]

He played Mr. Samgrass in the ITV seriesBrideshead Revisited, and Phillip Marriott QC inCrown Court.^[5][6] He had minor parts in other shows, includingBlackadder 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 andRumpole of the Bailey.^[7] Grillo performed Oswald in theBBC Television Shakespeare production ofKing Lear in 1982. He also had a more regular role inThree Up, Two Down, playing the gloomy and pessimistic zoo-keeper Wilf Perkins.^[8]

In 1997 he appeared as Mr Carkdale, the English teacher who spoke only inAnglo-Saxon, in two series ofSteven Moffat's school-sitcomChalk.^[1] In 2008, he contributed to theaudio commentary for the DVD release.^[9]

His film credits include appearances inScum, 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, andMax.^[1][10]

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