Simon Callow
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 13, 1949 (age 77)
- Birthplace
- Streatham, London, England, UK
Biography
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor. Known as a character actor on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including an Olivier Award and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to acting by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999. Callow rose to prominence originating the title role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1979 Peter Shaffer play Amadeus, for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. Callow joined the Miloš Forman 1984 film adaptation, this time portraying Emanuel Schikaneder. In 1992, Callow won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Musical for Carmen Jones. As an actor, he won acclaim for his comedic roles in A Room with a View (1985) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) earning a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination for each. Other notable roles include in Maurice (1987), Howards End (1992), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004). His television roles include Tom Chance in the Channel 4 series Chance in a Million (1984) and The Duke of Sandringham in the series Outlander from 2014 to 2016. He portrayed Napoleon in The Man of Destiny (1981), and Charles Dickens in numerous television projects. He has also appeared on numerous shows such as Midsomer Murders, Rome, Angels in America, Doctor Who, Galavant, Hawkeye, and The Witcher. Callow was born on 15 June 1949 in Streatham, South London, the son of Yvonne Mary (née Guise), a secretary and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. His father was of French descent and his mother was of Danish and German ancestry. His father left when Simon was 18 months old, and he was brought up by his mother and grandmothers. He and his mother travelled to Northern Rhodesia (now called Zambia) when he was nine to try and reconcile with his father. This did not happen and Callow was sent for three years to boarding school in South Africa. He and his mother returned to Britain when he was twelve. He was raised as a Catholic. Callow was a student at the London Oratory School in West Brompton, and then went on to study briefly at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, where he was active in the gay liberation movement.[5] He gave up his degree course after a year to take a three-year acting course at the Drama Centre London. He made his first film appearance in 1984 as Schikaneder in Amadeus. The following year, he appeared as the Reverend Mr Beebe in A Room with a View. His first television role was in the Carry On Laughing episode "Orgy and Bess" in 1975, but it was cut from the final print. He starred in several series of the Channel 4 situation comedy Chance in a Million, as Tom Chance, an eccentric individual to whom coincidences happened regularly. Roles like this and his part in Four Weddings and a Funeral brought him to a wider audience. Callow portrayed Pliny the Elder in CBBC's 2007 children's drama series, Roman Mysteries in the episode "The Secrets of Vesuvius". He played Armand Duquesne in Marvel's Hawkeye on Disney+.
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Filmography
The Reformation of Sister Edith
Movie · as Abbot Pentecost
The Amazing Maurice: The Waters of Life
Movie · as Werewolf (voice)
Eternal Return
Movie · as Malcolm
The Man with the Plan
Movie · as William Beveridge
The Twelfth Night Reunion
Movie · as Self - Performer
The Northumbria Mysteries
TV · as Father David Rutherford · 8 eps
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
Movie · as Himself
Étoile
TV · as Crispin Shamblee · 8 eps
Bookish
TV · as E · 3 eps
It's Christmas!
Movie · as Samuel
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Movie · as Cavendish
Merchant Ivory
Movie · as Self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie · as self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Movie · as Self
Aguska
Movie · as Patrick Carter
The Boy That Never Was
TV · as Cozimo · 4 eps
Surprised by Oxford
Movie · as Dr. Sterling
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
Movie · as Richard O'Keefe
Dodger Special: Coronation
Movie · as Archbishop of Canterbury
Doctor Jekyll
Movie · as Journalist
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Movie
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Movie · as Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Movie · as Self
The Pay Day
Movie · as Gates
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Movie · as Narrator
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Movie · as Self
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Movie · as Mr. Blunden
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Movie · as Alexander Pope
The Cleaner
TV · as Mr. Abahassine · 1 ep
Hawkeye
TV · as Armand Duquesne III · 1 ep
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
TV · as narrator · 8 eps
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
Movie · as Narrator
The Witcher
TV · as Codringher · 2 eps
Blue Iguana
Movie · as Uncle Martin
The Dead Room
Movie · as Aubrey Judd
A Christmas Carol
Movie
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Movie · as Self
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
Movie
Victoria & Abdul
Movie · as Mr. Puccini
Viceroy's House
Movie · as Cyril Radcliffe
Hampstead
Movie · as Judge
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Movie · as Leech
50 Years Legal
Movie · as Self
Born Silly
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
TV · as Self · 1 ep
There's Something About Romcoms
Movie · as Self
Golden Years
Movie · as Royston
Mindhorn
Movie · as Himself
The Rebel
TV · as Henry Palmer · 9 eps
Creditors
Movie · as John Allen
Galavant
TV · as Edwin the Magnificent · 1 ep
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Miss in Her Teens
Movie · as The Author
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie · as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
Movie · as Self - Host - Narrator
Outlander
TV · as Duke of Sandringham · 5 eps
Inside No. 9
TV · as Dick · 1 ep
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
Movie · as Self
Plebs
TV · 1 ep
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Movie · as Dickie Attenborough
Acts of Godfrey
Movie · as Godfrey
Being Shakespeare
Movie
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Movie
Them From That Thing
TV · as Various · 2 eps
Playhouse Presents
TV · as Dudley · 1 ep
Ice
Movie · as Prime Minister
Late Bloomers
Movie · as Richard
The British Guide to Showing Off
Movie · as Self
Art of Freedom
Movie · as Self
Love's Kitchen
Movie · as Guy Witherspoon
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
TV · as Narrator · 3 eps
Ice
TV · as Prime Minister · 2 eps
Death in Paradise
TV · as Larry South · 1 ep
Jamie's Dream School
TV · as Himself · 1 ep
Save Our Bacon
Movie · as The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Movie · as Self
Arn: The Knight Templar
TV · as Fader Henry · 2 eps
Theatreland
Movie · as Self
Orson Welles Over Europe
Movie · as Self - Presenter
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
TV · as Readings (voice) · 1 ep
Chemical Wedding
Movie · as Haddo
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Movie · as Self
Q&A
TV · as Self - Panellist · 1 ep
Arn: The Knight Templar
Movie · as Father Henry
Surveillance 24/7
Movie · as St John
How Gay Sex Changed the World
Movie · as Self
Ripley Under Ground
Movie · as Dean Bentliffe
The Company
TV · as MI6 liaison officer Elihu · 3 eps
Roman Mysteries
TV · as Pliny · 2 eps
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
TV · as Himself · 1 ep
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV · as Tree Blathereen (voice) · 2 eps
British Film Forever
TV · 1 ep
Lewis
TV · as Vernon Oxe · 1 ep
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Movie · as George Russell
Men of Mystery
Movie · as Himself
Reviving Harry Lime
Movie · as Himself
The Madness of Boy George
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
Movie · as Self
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
TV · as George Russell · 2 eps
Great British Menu
TV · as Self - Guest Judge · 1 ep
The Best Man
Movie · as Big-Time Publisher
Revisiting Brideshead
Movie · as Narrator
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Movie · as Mr. Wroth
Bob the Butler
Movie · as Mr. Butler
Rag Tale
Movie · as Cormac Rourke
Doctor Who
TV · as Charles Dickens · 2 eps
George and the Dragon
Movie · as King Edgar
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie · as Andre
Shoebox Zoo
TV · as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice) · 26 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Colonel Melchett · 1 ep
Bright Young Things
Movie · as King of Anatolia
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Movie · as Bob
Angels in America
TV · as Prior 2, Prior Walter Ancestor #2 (uncredited)
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Movie · as Charles Dickens
Thunderpants
Movie · as Sir John Osgood
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
Movie · as Galileo
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
TV · as Charles Dickens · 2 eps
Christmas Carol: The Movie
Movie · as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
No Man's Land
Movie · as Colonel Soft
Don't Eat the Neighbours
TV · 26 eps
Around The World In 80 Days
Movie · as Phileas Fogg (voice)
Deadly Appearances
Movie · as Rick Spencer
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
Movie · as Don Quixote
Notting Hill
Movie · as Simon Callow (uncredited)
Loose Women
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Shakespeare in Love
Movie · as Tilney
The Scarlet Tunic
Movie · as Captain Fairfax
Bedrooms and Hallways
Movie · as Keith
Parkinson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Woman In White
Movie · as Count Fosco
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Dr. Wellow · 1 ep
Trial & Retribution
TV · as Rupert Halliday · 2 eps
The Woman In White
TV · as Count Fosco · 2 eps
James and the Giant Peach
Movie · as Grasshopper (voice)
Victory
Movie · as Zangiacomo
Moses
Movie · as Meneptah II (voice)
An Audience with Charles Dickens
Movie · as Charles Dickens
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
TV · as Hugo Trenchfoot (voice) · 1 ep
Testament: The Bible in Animation
TV · as Meneptah (voice) · 1 ep
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Movie · as Vincent Cadby
Jefferson in Paris
Movie · as Richard Cosway
England, My England
Movie · as Charles II
El pasajero clandestino
Movie · as Major Owens
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Movie · as Gareth
Street Fighter
Movie · as A. N. Official
Little Napoleons
TV · as Edward Feathers · 4 eps
Femme Fatale
Movie · as Vicar Ronnie
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Movie · as Eddie Cherdowski
Camp Christmas
Movie
Howards End
Movie · as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
The Trials of Oz
Movie · as John Mortimer
The Crucifer of Blood
Movie · as Inspector Lestrade
Performance
TV · as John Mortimer · 1 ep
Postcards from the Edge
Movie · as Simon Asquith
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Movie · as Dr. Alex Sauer
Old Flames
Movie · as Nathanial Quass
Revolutionary Witness
Movie · as Franciscus Palloy
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Dr. Lutz · 1 ep
Manifesto
Movie · as Police Chief Hunt
Comic Relief
TV · 1 ep
Maurice
Movie · as Mr. Ducie
Cariani and the Courtesans
Movie · as Raimondi
The Reluctant Dragon
Movie · as Dragon (voice)
Acting
TV · 1 ep
Inspector Morse
TV · as Theodore Kemp · 1 ep
A Room with a View
Movie · as The Reverend Mr. Beebe
The Christmas Tree
Movie · as Jacob Weinberg
Dead Head
TV · as Hugo Silver · 4 eps
David Copperfield
TV · as Wilkins Micawber · 7 eps
ScreenPlay
TV · as Raimondi · 1 ep
Split Screen
TV · 1 ep
The Good Father
Movie · as Mark Varda
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
Movie · as George Frideric Handel
Screen Two
TV · as Nathanial Quass · 1 ep
Amadeus
Movie · as Emanuel Schikaneder
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Movie
Chance in a Million
TV · as Tom Chance · 18 eps
Saturday Review
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Man of Destiny
Movie · as Napoleon
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
Movie · as Maximillian
Question Time
TV · as Himself - Panellist · 1 ep
The Sunday Drama
TV · as The Prince · 1 ep
Victorian Scandals
TV · as Duval · 1 ep
The Sweeney
TV · as Detective Sergeant · 1 ep
Carry On Laughing
TV · as Crew Member · 1 ep
NOVA
TV · as Galileo · 1 ep
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV · as Aubrey Judd · 1 ep
Omnibus
TV · as Self · 1 ep