John Grillo

John Grillo is an English actor from Watford, Hertfordshire, who attended the Watford Grammar School for Boys before going on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took part in student theater and performed with Footlights in its annual revue. After Cambridge he received an Arts Council playwriting bursary, and his plays were staged in Nottingham, Glasgow, Oxford, Dublin, and at Cambridge's ADC Theatre. On television he played Mr. Samgrass in Brideshead Revisited and Phillip Marriott QC in Crown Court, had a regular role as the gloomy zookeeper Wilf Perkins in Three Up, Two Down, and in 1982 he played Oswald in the BBC Television Shakespeare version of King Lear. His film work includes Blame It on the Bellboy (1992), Danny the Champion of the World (1989), and Jack & Sarah (1995), along with other credits such as Scum, Brazil, and Orlando.