John Grillo
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Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
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Birthday: November 29, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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Scum
Overview: Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-12
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Blame It on the Bellboy
Overview: 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 lech looking for a little action with a woman he never met, whom he was set up with. And one of them was sent by his employer to inspect a property his boss wants to buy. All three men stay at the same hotel. But when the bellboy gets their names mixed up and gives info meant for someone else. So one of them meets a Realtor who will whatever she has to, to close the sale. And another follows a woman looking for romance. And another goes to the home of the mobster who thinks he's sent there to kill him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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Danny the Champion of the World
Overview: 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 piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-29
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The Affair of the Necklace
Overview: In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Chocky
Overview: Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically he arouses the suspicion of powerful groups who wish to tap into the amazing fund of knowledge to which he is now party.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-09
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Gaskin
Overview: Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Max and Helen
Overview: In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated by the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-08
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The Cold War Killers
Overview: A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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August Saturday
Overview: 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, if discovered, would devastate those closest to her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-29
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The 17th Bride
Overview: 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 protagonist Lisa Hartman had to promote her feature film "Where The Boys Are '84" in the States and they finally finished it on location in Wasserburg, Germany!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Dyn Amo
Overview: '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' tragically suggesting how a projection can become more substantial than the self behind it. Its subjects are role-playing (especially sexual role-playing), and the masochism of playing a role that conforms to others' exploitative interests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-27
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Overview: 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 Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-28
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Jack & Sarah
Overview: 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. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-02
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The Lady of the Camellias
Overview: The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-13
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Out of the Shadows
Overview: A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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Firefox
Overview: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-18
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Enemy
Overview: Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Dog Ends
Overview: 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 neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-17
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The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
Overview: A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-13
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King Lear
Overview: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-19
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Brazil
Overview: 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 beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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A Murder of Quality
Overview: 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 received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Orlando
Overview: 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 satisfy a very particular request.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Afterward
Overview: A skeptical family moves into their new home despite warnings of a resident ghost. They soon become believers.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-17
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Amy
Overview: The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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B&B
Overview: An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-19
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Heather Ann
Overview: 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 trawler Heather Ann. One day he nets a torpedo...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-30
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