David Morris (actor)

David Cedric Morris (11 September 1924 – 29 October 2007) was an English painter and actor, perhaps best known for his role as Grandpa George in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).

He later became an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and helped organize the first Artists for Peace exhibition in the 1980s.

Some of his portraits and landscapes were exhibited by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Academy, and two of his murals depicting Christ in Bible stories in views from Waterloo Bridge were displayed at St. John's Church, Waterloo Road, London until the 2022 redevelopment of that church.

Morris was an amateur actor who staged Shakespeare productions in a converted barn called the "Bottom Theatre" at his home in Roughwood, Buckinghamshire.

In 2004, he was recommended for a role in the TV mystery series Jonathan Creek by his friend, director Sandy Johnson.