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Simon Callow
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+.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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April 17th, 2026 | The Man with the Plan | William Beveridge | TBD | |
April 16th, 2026 | Eternal Return | Malcolm | TBD | |
February 25th, 2025 | Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece | Himself | TBD | |
December 14th, 2024 | Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration | Self | 4.5 | |
November 11th, 2024 | It's Christmas! | Samuel | 5 | |
September 3rd, 2024 | Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self | 6 | |
August 30th, 2024 | Merchant Ivory | Self | 7.7 | |
March 26th, 2024 | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 | Cavendish | 5.8 | |
November 29th, 2023 | Dodger Special: Coronation | Archbishop of Canterbury | 10 | |
October 29th, 2023 | Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll | Richard O'Keefe | TBD | |
October 27th, 2023 | Doctor Jekyll | Journalist | 4.9 | |
September 27th, 2023 | Surprised by Oxford | Dr. Sterling | 6.1 | |
November 11th, 2022 | The Pay Day | Gates | 4.3 | |
October 20th, 2022 | American: An Odyssey to 1947 | Self | TBD | |
August 8th, 2022 | The Fringe, Fame and Me | Self | TBD | |
July 23rd, 2022 | The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration | Self | 8 | |
July 15th, 2022 | Judi Dench: Our National Treasure | Narrator | 8 | |
February 9th, 2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye | TBD | 7.1 | |
December 20th, 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Mr. Blunden | 6.3 | |
October 10th, 2021 | Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius | Alexander Pope | TBD | |
December 24th, 2020 | Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet | Narrator | 8 | |
December 24th, 2018 | The Dead Room | Aubrey Judd | 5.7 | |
November 8th, 2018 | A Christmas Carol | TBD | 7.4 | |
August 31st, 2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self | 7.1 | |
August 23rd, 2018 | Blue Iguana | Uncle Martin | 5.7 | |
December 17th, 2017 | Born Silly | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
October 31st, 2017 | Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty | TBD | 4.7 | |
October 12th, 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Leech | 6.8 | |
September 13th, 2017 | Victoria & Abdul | Mr. Puccini | 6.9 | |
June 27th, 2017 | 50 Years Legal | Self | 6 | |
June 23rd, 2017 | Hampstead | Judge | 6 | |
March 3rd, 2017 | Viceroy's House | Cyril Radcliffe | 6.6 | |
October 9th, 2016 | Mindhorn | Himself | 6.1 | |
August 20th, 2016 | There's Something About Romcoms | Self | 6 | |
April 29th, 2016 | Golden Years | Royston | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 2015 | Creditors | TBD | 4.4 | |
December 20th, 2014 | Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule | Narrator (voice) | 7.5 | |
December 18th, 2014 | The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World | Self - Host - Narrator | TBD | |
December 12th, 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer | 6.5 | |
April 15th, 2014 | Miss in Her Teens | The Author | 3 | |
November 11th, 2013 | The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 | Self | TBD | |
October 2nd, 2012 | Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story | Dickie Attenborough | 4.6 | |
July 18th, 2012 | Shakespeare's Sonnets | TBD | TBD | |
January 31st, 2012 | Being Shakespeare | TBD | TBD | |
January 27th, 2012 | Acts of Godfrey | Godfrey | TBD | |
November 11th, 2011 | The British Guide to Showing Off | Self | 6.6 | |
July 13th, 2011 | Late Bloomers | Richard | 5.2 | |
June 24th, 2011 | Love's Kitchen | Guy Witherspoon | 5.3 | |
May 21st, 2011 | Art of Freedom | Self | 9.2 | |
January 2nd, 2011 | Ice | Prime Minister | 5.5 | |
December 20th, 2010 | The Unforgettable Harry Secombe | Self | 8.5 | |
September 25th, 2010 | Save Our Bacon | The Swinesbury's Boss (voice) | TBD | |
December 27th, 2009 | Orson Welles Over Europe | Himself - Presenter | 7 | |
January 1st, 2009 | Theatreland | Self | TBD | |
July 10th, 2008 | Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait | Self | 7.7 | |
May 4th, 2008 | Chemical Wedding | Haddo | 4.2 | |
December 25th, 2007 | Arn: The Knight Templar | Father Henry | 6.3 | |
June 11th, 2007 | Surveillance 24/7 | St John | 3.9 | |
January 1st, 2007 | How Gay Sex Changed the World | Self | 4 | |
December 26th, 2006 | Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask | Self | 5.6 | |
October 17th, 2006 | The Madness of Boy George | Narrator (voice) | 2.7 | |
April 18th, 2006 | Reviving Harry Lime | Himself | TBD | |
April 11th, 2006 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | George Russell | 5.1 | |
January 1st, 2006 | Men of Mystery | Himself | TBD | |
November 6th, 2005 | Ripley Under Ground | Dean Bentliffe | 5.6 | |
October 30th, 2005 | A Tribute To Ismail Merchant | Self (archive footage) | 10 | |
October 15th, 2005 | Revisiting Brideshead | Narrator | 8 | |
October 7th, 2005 | Rag Tale | Cormac Rourke | 3.6 | |
July 9th, 2005 | The Best Man | Big-Time Publisher | 5.3 | |
June 6th, 2005 | The Civilization of Maxwell Bright | Mr. Wroth | 4.5 | |
March 10th, 2005 | Bob the Butler | Mr. Butler | 5.6 | |
December 8th, 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | Andre | 7.3 | |
August 20th, 2004 | Thank You, Doctor Rey | Bob | 5.5 | |
March 28th, 2004 | George and the Dragon | King Edgar | 5.5 | |
October 3rd, 2003 | Bright Young Things | King of Anatolia | 6.3 | |
October 29th, 2002 | Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens | Galileo | TBD | |
October 17th, 2002 | The Mystery of Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens | 8.5 | |
May 24th, 2002 | Thunderpants | Sir John Osgood | 3.5 | |
December 7th, 2001 | Christmas Carol: The Movie | Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) | 5.2 | |
May 12th, 2001 | No Man's Land | Colonel Soft | 7.5 | |
April 23rd, 2000 | Deadly Appearances | Rick Spencer | 7 | |
January 1st, 2000 | Around The World In 80 Days | Phileas Fogg (voice) | TBD | |
January 1st, 2000 | Animated Epics: Don Quixote | Don Quixote | TBD | |
May 21st, 1999 | Notting Hill | Simon Callow (uncredited) | 7.3 | |
December 11th, 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Tilney | 6.8 | |
August 1st, 1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways | Keith | 6.1 | |
June 12th, 1998 | The Scarlet Tunic | Captain Fairfax | 5.1 | |
January 1st, 1997 | The Woman In White | Count Fosco | 6.6 | |
December 13th, 1996 | Victory | Zangiacomo | 5.2 | |
October 15th, 1996 | Moses | Meneptah II (voice) | 6 | |
April 12th, 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Grasshopper (voice) | 6.6 | |
January 1st, 1996 | An Audience with Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens | TBD | |
November 10th, 1995 | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | Vincent Cadby | 6.3 | |
March 31st, 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Richard Cosway | 5.1 | |
January 1st, 1995 | England, My England | Charles II | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 1995 | El pasajero clandestino | Major Owens | 5 | |
December 23rd, 1994 | Street Fighter | A. N. Official | 4.7 | |
March 9th, 1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Gareth | 6.8 | |
December 24th, 1993 | Camp Christmas | TBD | 2.7 | |
February 7th, 1993 | Femme Fatale | Vicar Ronnie | 8 | |
January 15th, 1993 | Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Eddie Cherdowski | 6.3 | |
March 13th, 1992 | Howards End | Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited) | 7 | |
November 9th, 1991 | The Trials of Oz | John Mortimer | 6.3 | |
November 4th, 1991 | The Crucifer of Blood | Inspector Lestrade | 6.6 | |
November 23rd, 1990 | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | Dr. Alex Sauer | 6.1 | |
September 14th, 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Simon Asquith | 6.6 | |
January 14th, 1990 | Old Flames | Nathanial Quass | TBD | |
December 31st, 1989 | Revolutionary Witness | Franciscus Palloy | 10 | |
January 27th, 1988 | Manifesto | Police Chief Hunt | 4 | |
December 31st, 1987 | The Reluctant Dragon | Dragon (voice) | 7 | |
September 18th, 1987 | Maurice | Mr. Ducie | 7.6 | |
August 5th, 1987 | Cariani and the Courtesans | Raimondi | 7 | |
December 21st, 1986 | The Christmas Tree | Jacob Weinberg | 9 | |
March 7th, 1986 | A Room with a View | The Reverend Mr. Beebe | 7 | |
November 1st, 1985 | The Good Father | Mark Varda | 5.6 | |
June 1st, 1985 | Honour, Profit & Pleasure | George Frideric Handel | 10 | |
November 25th, 1984 | Royal Variety Performance 1984 | TBD | TBD | |
September 19th, 1984 | Amadeus | Emanuel Schikaneder | 8 | |
May 5th, 1981 | The Man of Destiny | Napoleon | TBD | |
November 22nd, 1979 | Instant Enlightenment Including VAT | Maximillian | 4.5 | |
TBD | The Reformation of Sister Edith | Abbot Pentecost | TBD |