
Cast
Simon Callow
Acting
Cast
Simon Callow
Known for
Acting
Born
1949-06-13
From
Streatham, London, England, UK
Also known as Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, 사이먼 캘로우, سایمن کالو
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+.

Notting Hill
as Simon Callow (uncredited)

Amadeus
as Emanuel Schikaneder

The Phantom of the Opera
as Andre

Street Fighter
as A. N. Official

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
as Vincent Cadby

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
as Cavendish

Shakespeare in Love
as Tilney

Four Weddings and a Funeral
as Gareth

James and the Giant Peach
as Grasshopper (voice)

Howards End
as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)

Maurice
as Mr. Ducie

A Room with a View
as The Reverend Mr. Beebe

Hampstead
as Judge

Ice
as Prime Minister

There's Something About Romcoms
as Self

Arn: The Knight Templar
as Father Henry

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

Postcards from the Edge
as Simon Asquith

Bedrooms and Hallways
as Keith

Mindhorn
as Himself

Bright Young Things
as King of Anatolia

The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Leech

Thunderpants
as Sir John Osgood

Victoria & Abdul
as Mr. Puccini

Eternal Return
as Malcolm

Jefferson in Paris
as Richard Cosway

The Man with the Plan
as William Beveridge

Blue Iguana
as Uncle Martin

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as George Russell

George and the Dragon
as King Edgar

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self

Manifesto
as Police Chief Hunt

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer

Viceroy's House
as Cyril Radcliffe

Christmas Carol: The Movie
as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

Doctor Jekyll
as Journalist

Love's Kitchen
as Guy Witherspoon

Cariani and the Courtesans
as Raimondi

Shakespeare's Sonnets

No Man's Land
as Colonel Soft

Golden Years
as Royston

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
as Dr. Alex Sauer

Ripley Under Ground
as Dean Bentliffe

Bob the Butler
as Mr. Butler

Femme Fatale
as Vicar Ronnie

The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mr. Blunden

The Best Man
as Big-Time Publisher

The Woman In White
as Count Fosco

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
as Mr. Wroth

Chemical Wedding
as Haddo

The Good Father
as Mark Varda

Revolutionary Witness
as Franciscus Palloy

The Crucifer of Blood
as Inspector Lestrade

Rag Tale
as Cormac Rourke

Royal Variety Performance 1984

Old Flames
as Nathanial Quass

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
as Narrator

Late Bloomers
as Richard

Merchant Ivory
as Self

The Man of Destiny
as Napoleon

Dodger Special: Coronation
as Archbishop of Canterbury

Thank You, Doctor Rey
as Bob

The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self

Victory
as Zangiacomo

Revisiting Brideshead
as Narrator

Deadly Appearances
as Rick Spencer

Orson Welles Over Europe
as Himself - Presenter

Creditors

Surprised by Oxford
as Dr. Sterling

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Alexander Pope

El pasajero clandestino
as Major Owens

Miss in Her Teens
as The Author

It's Christmas!
as Samuel

Theatreland
as Self

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Narrator (voice)

Soft Top Hard Shoulder
as Eddie Cherdowski

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)

England, My England
as Charles II

The Scarlet Tunic
as Captain Fairfax

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self

Art of Freedom
as Self

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
as Dickie Attenborough

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
as Self

A Christmas Carol

The Trials of Oz
as John Mortimer

Surveillance 24/7
as St John

Moses
as Meneptah II (voice)

How Gay Sex Changed the World
as Self

Acts of Godfrey
as Godfrey

The Pay Day
as Gates

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self

Around The World In 80 Days
as Phileas Fogg (voice)

Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty

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

The Madness of Boy George
as Narrator (voice)

American: An Odyssey to 1947
as Self

Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
as Maximillian

The British Guide to Showing Off
as Self

Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
as Self

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
as Self

The Reformation of Sister Edith
as Abbot Pentecost

The Dead Room
as Aubrey Judd

Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
as Richard O'Keefe

Animated Epics: Don Quixote
as Don Quixote

Camp Christmas

Honour, Profit & Pleasure
as George Frideric Handel

50 Years Legal
as Self

The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
as Self - Host - Narrator

Being Shakespeare

Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
as Narrator

Save Our Bacon
as The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)

The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
as Self

The Reluctant Dragon
as Dragon (voice)

The Christmas Tree
as Jacob Weinberg

The Mystery of Charles Dickens
as Charles Dickens

Reviving Harry Lime
as Himself

Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Himself

An Audience with Charles Dickens
as Charles Dickens

Aguska
as Patrick Carter

Born Silly
as Narrator (voice)

Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
as Galileo

Men of Mystery
as Himself