Simon Callow
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
172
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
Outlander
Doctor Who
Death in Paradise
The Witcher
Agatha Christie's Poirot
NOVA
Loose Women
Agatha Christie's Marple
Question Time
Inside No. 9
Q&A
Parkinson
Inspector Morse
Hawkeye
The Sweeney
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Omnibus
Performance
Notting Hill
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Hampstead
Étoile
Arn: The Knight Templar
Plebs
Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
George and the Dragon
Amadeus
Galavant
The Cleaner
Shoebox Zoo
Bright Young Things
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Angels in America
Angels in America
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
James and the Giant Peach
The Phantom of the Opera
Street Fighter
The Company
A Room with a View
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Mindhorn
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Playhouse Presents
Bob the Butler
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Surveillance 24/7
Howards End
Chemical Wedding
There's Something About Romcoms
The Holiday List
Old Flames
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Woman In White
Revisiting Brideshead
Arn: The Knight Templar
Christmas Carol: The Movie
The Christmas Tree
The Pay Day
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Manifesto
Surprised by Oxford
Postcards from the Edge
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Ice
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Shakespeare in Love
No Man's Land
Being Shakespeare
Viceroy's House
Deadly Appearances
Victory
Eternal Return
Acts of Godfrey
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Blue Iguana
Carry On Laughing
The Dead Room
The Crucifer of Blood
Jefferson in Paris
Maurice
Ice
The Best Man
Victoria & Abdul
Moses
The Scarlet Tunic
Dodger Special: Coronation
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
The Good Father
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
Saturday Review
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Thank You, Doctor Rey
David Copperfield
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Thunderpants
Doctor Jekyll
Creditors
Love's Kitchen
Don't Eat the Neighbours
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
The Man of Destiny
The Boy That Never Was
50 Years Legal
Around The World In 80 Days
Merchant Ivory
Them From That Thing
Camp Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Chance in a Million
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
The Madness of Boy George
Cariani and the Courtesans
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Femme Fatale
Rag Tale
Golden Years
The Rebel
An Audience with Charles Dickens
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
El pasajero clandestino
Roman Mysteries
Ripley Under Ground
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Born Silly
Little Napoleons
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
The British Guide to Showing Off
Orson Welles Over Europe
Dead Head
Bedrooms and Hallways
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
Save Our Bacon
The Trials of Oz
Theatreland
Acting
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
Men of Mystery
A Christmas Carol
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Jamie's Dream School
Art of Freedom
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Late Bloomers
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
England, My England
The Reluctant Dragon
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Revolutionary Witness
Miss in Her Teens
How Gay Sex Changed the World
Reviving Harry Lime
