Simon Callow
Acting
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+.
Born: June 13, 1949
Place of Birth: Streatham, London, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Malcolm
as Crispin Shamblee
as Samuel
as self
as Cozimo
as Self
as Cavendish
as Archbishop of Canterbury
as Richard O'Keefe
as Journalist
as Dr. Sterling
as Gates
as Self
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Narrator
as Mr. Blunden
as Armand Duquesne III
as Alexander Pope
as Mr. Abahassine
as Narrator
as Codringher
as Aubrey Judd
as Uncle Martin
as Leech
as Mr. Puccini
as Self
as Judge
as Cyril Radcliffe
as Himself
as Henry Palmer
as Royston
as Edwin the Magnificent
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
as Duke of Sandringham
as Dick
as Himself
as Dickie Attenborough
as Various
as Dudley
as Godfrey
as Larry South
as Richard
as Guy Witherspoon
as Self
as Narrator
as Himself
as Prime Minister
as Prime Minister
as Fader Henry
as Himself - Presenter
as Himself
as Self - Panellist
as Haddo
as Father Henry
as Tree Blathereen (voice)
as MI6 liaison officer Elihu
as St John
as Pliny
as Himself
as Narrator (voice)
as George Russell
as George Russell
as Dean Bentliffe
as Self (archive footage)
as Narrator
as Cormac Rourke
as Big-Time Publisher
as Mr. Wroth
as Charles Dickens
as Mr. Butler
as Colonel Melchett
as Andre
as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
as Bob
as King Edgar
as Prior 2
as Prior Walter Ancestor #2
as King of Anatolia
as Galileo
as Charles Dickens
as Charles Dickens
as Sir John Osgood
as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
as Colonel Soft
as Rick Spencer
as Phileas Fogg (voice)
as Don Quixote
as Self
as Simon Callow (uncredited)
as Tilney
as Keith
as Self
as Dr. Wellow
as Count Fosco
as Zangiacomo
as Meneptah (voice)
as Grasshopper (voice)
as Hugo Trenchfoot (voice)
as Charles Dickens
as Vincent Cadby
as Richard Cosway
as Charles II
as Major Owens
as A. N. Official
as Edward Feathers
as Gareth
as Vicar Ronnie
as Eddie Cherdowski
as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
as John Mortimer
as Inspector Lestrade
as John Mortimer
as Dr. Alex Sauer
as Simon Asquith
as Nathanial Quass
as Franciscus Palloy
as Dr. Lutz
as Police Chief Hunt
as Dragon (voice)
as Mr. Ducie
as Raimondi
as Theodore Kemp
as Wilkins Micawber
as The Reverend Mr. Beebe
as Hugo Silver
as Mark Varda
as George Frideric Handel
as Emanuel Schikaneder
as Tom Chance
as Napoleon
as Maximillian
as Himself - Panellist
as Crew Member
as Detective Sergeant
as Galileo
as Self