[3] Grout's BBC Radio 4 appearances include Barliman Butterbur in the 1981 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, headmaster Harry Beeston in all ten series of the Radio 4 comedy series King Street Junior (1985–1998), Professor Richard Whittingham in Andy Hamilton's Hell-based comedy Old Harry's Game (1995–2003), Rev.

[3] Grout's television credits include Chief Inspector Prescott in Waste Land - series 17, episode 1 of Dixon of Dock Green (1970) - Dai Owen in Looking For Clancy (1975), Jonas Bradlaw in Murder Most English (1977), Superintendent Rafferty in Turtle's Progress (Series 1 only), Div.

Albert Hallam in Juliet Bravo (1981), The Doctor in Shelley (1982), Mr McAllister in The Beiderbecke Affair (1984), the Inspector in The Box of Delights (1984), Professor George Bunn in A Very Peculiar Practice (1988), Granville Bennett in All Creatures Great and Small, Chief Superintendent Strange in Inspector Morse and Mr. Justice Ollie Oliphant in Rumpole of the Bailey as well as the "chief whip" in Yes Minister.

Grout's other television roles include George Batt in Mother Love (1989), based on the novel by Laura Black and starring Diana Rigg, David McCallum and James Wilby and also Mr Spenlow in David Copperfield for two episodes in 1999.

[1][3] Grout died on 24 June 2012, aged 84, at the Ashgrove nursing home in Purton, Wiltshire, after a long illness.