Brian Grellis

Acting

Brian Grellis

Born 1937-07-12 · Everton, Liverpool, England, UK

Brian Grellis was born Brian McGrellis in Liverpool on the 12th of July 1937 and was billed as McGrellis in his first TV acting role as a delivery boy in the 'Edgar Wallace Mysteries' (1963).  A familiar face in supporting roles and guest spots in many stalwart TV series, Grellis' film credits included Only When I Larf (1968), Submarine X-1 (1968), Mosquito Squadron (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Trog (1970), Fear in the Night (1972), The Offence (1973), and Bite the Bullet (1975). Grellis retired from acting in the late 1980s due to bad arthritis.

Acting credits

Battle of Britain poster
6.8

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.

Battle of Britain

1969

Threads poster
7.6

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Threads

1984

The Offence poster
6.8

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

The Offence

1973

Only When I Larf poster
7.1

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

Only When I Larf

1968

Fear in the Night poster
5.8

It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?

Fear in the Night

1972

Submarine X-1 poster
6.3

After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.

Submarine X-1

1968

The Love-Girl and the Innocent poster
5.6

The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving ten years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.

The Love-Girl and the Innocent

1973

Doctor Who: Snakedance poster
5.0

Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There, the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the banishment of the Mara five hundred years earlier. The Mara takes control of Lon and uses him and Tegan to obtain from Ambril, the Director of Historical Research, the 'Great Crystal' - the large blue stone that originally brought it into being by focusing energy from the minds of the planet's one-time inhabitants. The Mara now plans to use the crystal during the ceremony to bring about its return to corporeal existence.

Doctor Who: Snakedance

1983

The Manipulators poster
NR

A lecture on Pavlov's Dogs. A room full of women being computer-tested for their typing skills. Two blokes, in a flat above a butchers' shop have been watching the young couple in the flat opposite, and their baby, taping their conversations. The couple's nerves are frayed. "They're getting close to breaking point" says one watcher. "Thanks to you" replies the other, more experienced watcher. As they continue to interfere, something terrible happens. One watcher wants to put a stop to it. His superior feels otherwise. But who, exactly is the manipulator and who is the manipulated?

The Manipulators

1972

Something in the Cellar poster
NR

Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his friend, Dr Pugh.

Something in the Cellar

1969

The Double poster
6.3

A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.

The Double

1963

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy poster
7.2

A three-man rocket crew are nearly done with their mission to Titan Base until a course change puts the rocket in the path of a strange cloud in space. By the time they arrive, they have come under the control of a sentient virus which threatens the galaxy. When the TARDIS picks up an emergency message, it flies into the cloud, infecting the Doctor. To save himself and others, he must undertake a dangerous journey.

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

1977

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen poster
5.9

Arriving on Space Station Nerva in its distant past, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find its crew threatened by a mysterious plague. Discovering that things are not as they seem, they uncover a Cyberman plot to destroy Voga, planet of gold.

Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

1975