Simon Callow

Acting · 2.3 popularity

Age

Movies

122

Born: June 13, 1949
From: Streatham, London, England, UK
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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+.

Works

122 films

Notting Hill

19997.3

Amadeus

19848.0

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

19956.3

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

20245.8

Four Weddings and a Funeral

19946.8

The Phantom of the Opera

20047.3

Street Fighter

19944.7

Shakespeare in Love

19986.8

Howards End

19927.0

James and the Giant Peach

19966.6

A Room with a View

19867.0

The Man Who Invented Christmas

20176.8

Maurice

19877.6

Victoria & Abdul

20176.9

Thunderpants

20023.5

Postcards from the Edge

19906.6

Hampstead

20176.1

Christmas Carol: The Movie

20015.2

Arn: The Knight Templar

20076.3

Love's Kitchen

20115.3

No Man's Land

20017.5

There's Something About Romcoms

20166.0

The Best Man

20055.4

Mindhorn

20166.1

Blue Iguana

20185.8

Merchant Ivory

20247.7

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

20227.2

Ice

20115.5

Viceroy's House

20176.7

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

20065.1

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

19906.1

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

20187.1

Bright Young Things

20036.3

George and the Dragon

20045.5

El pasajero clandestino

19955.0

Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

19794.5

Jefferson in Paris

19955.1

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

20244.5

Bedrooms and Hallways

19986.1

Eternal Return

20266.0

The Man with the Plan

2026

It's Christmas!

20245.0

Born Silly

2017

The Reformation of Sister Edith

2026

Femme Fatale

19938.0

Thank You, Doctor Rey

20035.5

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

20228.0

Aguska

2024

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

20146.5

Royal Variety Performance 1984

1984

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2012

Ripley Under Ground

20055.6

Victory

19965.2

The Woman In White

19976.6

Moses

19966.0

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

198510.0

Bob the Butler

20055.6

Late Bloomers

20115.2

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

200510.0

Theatreland

2009

Dodger Special: Coronation

202310.0

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

20054.5

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait

20087.7

Around The World In 80 Days

2000

Cariani and the Courtesans

19877.0

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

20147.5

The Good Father

19855.6

Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty

20174.7

Golden Years

20166.3

Manifesto

19884.0

Animated Epics: Don Quixote

2000

The Fringe, Fame and Me

2022

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

20216.3

Rag Tale

20053.3

Orson Welles Over Europe

20097.0

Art of Freedom

20119.2

Doctor Jekyll

20234.6

The Dead Room

20185.7

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

20246.0

England, My England

19956.5

Surprised by Oxford

20236.1

An Audience with Charles Dickens

19964.0

The British Guide to Showing Off

20116.6

The Man of Destiny

1981

Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask

20065.6

Revisiting Brideshead

20058.0

How Gay Sex Changed the World

20074.0

Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll

2023

Miss in Her Teens

20143.0

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

20124.6

The Scarlet Tunic

19985.1

Chemical Wedding

20084.2

The Crucifer of Blood

19916.5

A Christmas Carol

20187.4

Save Our Bacon

2010

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

20228.0

The Trials of Oz

19916.3

Revolutionary Witness

198910.0

The Pay Day

20224.2

The Madness of Boy George

20062.7

Old Flames

1990

The Unforgettable Harry Secombe

20108.5

The Christmas Tree

19869.0

American: An Odyssey to 1947

2022

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

19936.3

Acts of Godfrey

2012

Camp Christmas

19932.7

Deadly Appearances

20007.0

The Reluctant Dragon

19877.0

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

2021

Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece

2025

Reviving Harry Lime

2006

Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet

20208.0

Surveillance 24/7

20073.9

Creditors

20154.4

The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2

2013

50 Years Legal

20176.0

Being Shakespeare

2012

Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens

2002

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

20028.5

Men of Mystery

2006

The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World

2014