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+.

Simon Callow

Simon Callow

Biography

The Phantom of the Opera

Notting Hill

Amadeus

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Shakespeare in Love

Street Fighter

James and the Giant Peach

A Room with a View

Maurice

Howards End

Arn: The Knight Templar

Postcards from the Edge

Victoria & Abdul

Ice

Thunderpants

Love's Kitchen

The Man with the Plan

Merchant Ivory

Bright Young Things

The Man Who Invented Christmas

George and the Dragon

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Ripley Under Ground

Hampstead

Viceroy's House

No Man's Land

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Jefferson in Paris

Femme Fatale

The Woman In White

Christmas Carol: The Movie

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

Eternal Return

Thank You, Doctor Rey

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

The Man of Destiny

There's Something About Romcoms

Moses

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

El pasajero clandestino

Art of Freedom

The Reformation of Sister Edith

Late Bloomers

The Crucifer of Blood

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

Mindhorn

Blue Iguana

Bedrooms and Hallways

The Fringe, Fame and Me

Animated Epics: Don Quixote

Rag Tale

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Victory

Orson Welles Over Europe

Golden Years

Bob the Butler

Theatreland

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait

It's Christmas!

Doctor Jekyll

Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

Born Silly

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

The Good Father

Miss in Her Teens

Manifesto

Surprised by Oxford

The Trials of Oz

England, My England

How Gay Sex Changed the World

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

The Best Man

Alec Guinness: A Class Act