Simon Callow
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
174
Gender
Male
Birthday
1949-06-13 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Streatham, London, England, UK
Simon Callow
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+.
Known For
Midsomer Murders
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Witcher
Death in Paradise
Agatha Christie's Marple
Outlander
NOVA
Inside No. 9
Hawkeye
Inspector Morse
Parkinson
The Sweeney
Omnibus
Question Time
Q&A
Performance
Shakespeare in Love
Revisiting Brideshead
Loose Women
Notting Hill
Moses
Blue Iguana
Doctor Jekyll
Old Flames
El pasajero clandestino
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Amadeus
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Merchant Ivory
Maurice
Angels in America
Angels in America
The Phantom of the Opera
Plebs
Thunderpants
Bedrooms and Hallways
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Men of Mystery
Chemical Wedding
Ripley Under Ground
Love's Kitchen
Galavant
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Femme Fatale
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
The Cleaner
Shoebox Zoo
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
The Company
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Street Fighter
The Holiday List
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
The Dead Room
The Boy That Never Was
Creditors
James and the Giant Peach
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Carry On Laughing
Deadly Appearances
The Scarlet Tunic
Born Silly
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
Manifesto
Arn: The Knight Templar
Viceroy's House
Playhouse Presents
Étoile
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
Theatreland
A Room with a View
Chance in a Million
Howards End
Camp Christmas
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
Arn: The Knight Templar
Cariani and the Courtesans
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Ice
Saturday Review
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Hampstead
Postcards from the Edge
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Don't Eat the Neighbours
Bright Young Things
Victoria & Abdul
Mindhorn
Ice
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
There's Something About Romcoms
The Man Who Invented Christmas
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Bob the Butler
George and the Dragon
No Man's Land
Roman Mysteries
Acting
Eternal Return
Christmas Carol: The Movie
Them From That Thing
Jefferson in Paris
David Copperfield
Save Our Bacon
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Golden Years
Surprised by Oxford
Victory
Orson Welles Over Europe
The Best Man
Dead Head
The Rebel
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
An Audience with Charles Dickens
Miss in Her Teens
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
How Gay Sex Changed the World
Little Napoleons
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
The Woman In White
The British Guide to Showing Off
The Good Father
The Man of Destiny
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Art of Freedom
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Rag Tale
The Pay Day
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
The Crucifer of Blood
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Late Bloomers
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
Acts of Godfrey
Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
A Christmas Carol
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Surveillance 24/7
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Revolutionary Witness
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
50 Years Legal
Jamie's Dream School
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
The Trials of Oz
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
England, My England
The Madness of Boy George
The Christmas Tree
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
Around The World In 80 Days
Dodger Special: Coronation
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
Reviving Harry Lime
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
Being Shakespeare
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
The Reluctant Dragon
