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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 13, 1949
Place of Birth
Streatham, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Simon Phillip Hugh Callow
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Simon Callow
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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+.
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Malcolm
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Crispin Shamblee
Étoile
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4.5
Self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
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5.2
Samuel
The Holiday List
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6.0
self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
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6.0
Cozimo
The Boy That Never Was
2024
7.7
Self
Merchant Ivory
2024
5.9
Cavendish
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
2024
10.0
Archbishop of Canterbury
Dodger Special: Coronation
2023
0.0
Richard O'Keefe
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
2023
Credits
Eternal Return
as Malcolm
2025
0.0
Étoile
as Crispin Shamblee
2025
7.3
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self
2024
4.5
The Holiday List
as Samuel
2024
5.2
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2024
6.0
The Boy That Never Was
as Cozimo
2024
6.0
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
7.7
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
as Cavendish
2024
5.9
Dodger Special: Coronation
as Archbishop of Canterbury
2023
10.0
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
as Richard O'Keefe
2023
0.0
Doctor Jekyll
as Journalist
2023
4.9
Surprised by Oxford
as Dr. Sterling
2023
6.0
The Pay Day
as Gates
2022
4.1
American: An Odyssey to 1947
as Self
2022
0.0
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
0.0
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
2022
0.0
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
as Self
2022
8.0
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
as Narrator
2022
8.0
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022
7.1
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
as Mr. Blunden
2021
6.2
Hawkeye
as Armand Duquesne III
2021
7.8
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Alexander Pope
2021
0.0
The Cleaner
as Mr. Abahassine
2021
7.0
🎬
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
as narrator
2021
0.0
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
as Narrator
2020
8.0
The Witcher
as Codringher
2019
8.0
The Dead Room
as Aubrey Judd
2018
5.7
A Christmas Carol
2018
7.4
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self
2018
7.1
Blue Iguana
as Uncle Martin
2018
5.7
🎬
Born Silly
as Narrator (voice)
2017
0.0
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
2017
4.7
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Leech
2017
6.8
Victoria & Abdul
as Mr. Puccini
2017
6.9
50 Years Legal
as Self
2017
6.0
Hampstead
as Judge
2017
6.0
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
as Self
2017
0.0
Viceroy's House
as Cyril Radcliffe
2017
6.6
Mindhorn
as Himself
2016
6.1
There's Something About Romcoms
as Self
2016
6.0
The Rebel
as Henry Palmer
2016
7.2
Golden Years
as Royston
2016
6.3
Galavant
as Edwin the Magnificent
2015
7.3
Creditors
2015
4.4
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Narrator (voice)
2014
7.5
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
as Self - Host - Narrator
2014
0.0
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
2014
6.5
Outlander
as Duke of Sandringham
2014
8.2
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Miss in Her Teens
as The Author
2014
3.0
Inside No. 9
as Dick
2014
8.0
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
as Self
2013
0.0
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
as Himself
2013
8.3
Plebs
2013
7.3
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
as Dickie Attenborough
2012
4.0
Them From That Thing
as Various
2012
0.0
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
0.0
Playhouse Presents
as Dudley
2012
6.0
Being Shakespeare
2012
0.0
Acts of Godfrey
as Godfrey
2012
0.0
The British Guide to Showing Off
as Self
2011
6.6
Death in Paradise
as Larry South
2011
7.5
Late Bloomers
as Richard
2011
5.2
Love's Kitchen
as Guy Witherspoon
2011
5.3
Art of Freedom
as Self
2011
9.2
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
as Narrator
2011
8.0
Jamie's Dream School
as Himself
2011
0.0
Ice
as Prime Minister
2011
5.5
Ice
as Prime Minister
2011
9.0
🎬
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
as Self
2010
8.5
🎬
Save Our Bacon
as The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)
2010
0.0
Arn: The Knight Templar
as Fader Henry
2010
7.5
Orson Welles Over Europe
as Himself - Presenter
2009
7.0
🎬
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
as Readings (voice)
2009
0.0
Theatreland
as Himself
2009
0.0
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
as Self
2008
7.7
Q&A
as Self - Panellist
2008
3.2
Chemical Wedding
as Haddo
2008
4.2
Arn: The Knight Templar
as Father Henry
2007
6.3
The Sarah Jane Adventures
as Tree Blathereen (voice)
2007
7.1
The Company
as MI6 liaison officer Elihu
2007
7.3
Surveillance 24/7
as St John
2007
3.9
Roman Mysteries
as Pliny
2007
5.0
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
as Himself
2007
8.1
How Gay Sex Changed the World
as Self
2007
4.0
Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
as Self
2006
5.6
The Madness of Boy George
as Narrator (voice)
2006
2.7
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as George Russell
2006
2.5
🎬
Reviving Harry Lime
as Himself
2006
0.0
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as George Russell
2006
5.1
🎬
Men of Mystery
as Himself
2006
0.0
Ripley Under Ground
as Dean Bentliffe
2005
5.5
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
2005
10.0
Revisiting Brideshead
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Rag Tale
as Cormac Rourke
2005
3.0
The Best Man
as Big-Time Publisher
2005
5.3
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
as Mr. Wroth
2005
4.1
Doctor Who
as Charles Dickens
2005
7.6
Bob the Butler
as Mr. Butler
2005
5.6
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Colonel Melchett
2004
7.8
The Phantom of the Opera
as Andre
2004
7.3
Shoebox Zoo
as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
2004
7.8
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as Bob
2004
5.0
George and the Dragon
as King Edgar
2004
5.5
Angels in America
as Prior 2
2003
7.6
Angels in America
as Prior Walter Ancestor #2
2003
7.6
Bright Young Things
as King of Anatolia
2003
6.2
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
as Galileo
2002
0.0
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
as Charles Dickens
2002
8.0
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
as Charles Dickens
2002
7.2
Thunderpants
as Sir John Osgood
2002
3.4
Christmas Carol: The Movie
as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
2001
5.2
🎬
Don't Eat the Neighbours
2001
4.5
No Man's Land
as Colonel Soft
2001
7.5
Deadly Appearances
as Rick Spencer
2000
5.0
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
as Don Quixote
2000
0.0
Around The World In 80 Days
as Phileas Fogg (voice)
2000
0.0
Loose Women
as Self
1999
3.2
Notting Hill
as Simon Callow (uncredited)
1999
7.3
Shakespeare in Love
as Tilney
1998
6.8
Bedrooms and Hallways
as Keith
1998
6.0
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The Scarlet Tunic
as Captain Fairfax
1998
4.5
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Midsomer Murders
as Dr. Wellow
1997
7.5
The Woman In White
as Count Fosco
1997
6.6
Victory
as Zangiacomo
1996
4.8
Testament: The Bible in Animation
as Meneptah (voice)
1996
6.4
🎬
Moses
as Meneptah II (voice)
1996
6.0
James and the Giant Peach
as Grasshopper (voice)
1996
6.6
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Hugo Trenchfoot (voice)
1996
6.2
An Audience with Charles Dickens
as Charles Dickens
1996
0.0
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
as Vincent Cadby
1995
6.3
Jefferson in Paris
as Richard Cosway
1995
5.0
El pasajero clandestino
as Major Owens
1995
5.0
England, My England
as Charles II
1995
5.0
Street Fighter
as A. N. Official
1994
4.7
Little Napoleons
as Edward Feathers
1994
0.0
Four Weddings and a Funeral
as Gareth
1994
6.8
Camp Christmas
1993
2.7
Femme Fatale
as Vicar Ronnie
1993
0.0
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
as Eddie Cherdowski
1993
6.2
Howards End
as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
1992
7.0
The Trials of Oz
as John Mortimer
1991
6.0
The Crucifer of Blood
as Inspector Lestrade
1991
6.5
Performance
as John Mortimer
1991
6.0
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
as Dr. Alex Sauer
1990
6.0
Postcards from the Edge
as Simon Asquith
1990
6.6
Old Flames
as Nathanial Quass
1990
0.0
Revolutionary Witness
as Franciscus Palloy
1989
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Dr. Lutz
1989
8.2
Manifesto
as Police Chief Hunt
1988
3.7
The Reluctant Dragon
as Dragon (voice)
1987
6.0
Maurice
as Mr. Ducie
1987
7.6
🎬
Acting
1987
0.0
Cariani and the Courtesans
as Raimondi
1987
0.0
Inspector Morse
as Theodore Kemp
1987
7.8
🎬
The Christmas Tree
as Jacob Weinberg
1986
0.0
David Copperfield
as Wilkins Micawber
1986
4.8
A Room with a View
as The Reverend Mr. Beebe
1986
6.9
Dead Head
as Hugo Silver
1986
4.3
The Good Father
as Mark Varda
1985
5.4
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
as George Frideric Handel
1985
0.0
Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984
0.0
Amadeus
as Emanuel Schikaneder
1984
8.0
Chance in a Million
as Tom Chance
1984
6.7
🎬
Saturday Review
as Self
1984
0.0
The Man of Destiny
as Napoleon
1981
0.0
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
as Maximillian
1979
4.5
Question Time
as Himself - Panellist
1979
5.5
Carry On Laughing
as Crew Member
1975
5.2
The Sweeney
as Detective Sergeant
1975
7.8
NOVA
as Galileo
1974
7.0
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Aubrey Judd
1971
7.4
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2