Simon Callow
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
173
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
The Witcher
Doctor Who
Death in Paradise
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Outlander
NOVA
Agatha Christie's Marple
Loose Women
Hawkeye
Inspector Morse
Omnibus
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Q&A
Inside No. 9
Notting Hill
Question Time
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Parkinson
Amadeus
The Sweeney
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Plebs
The Phantom of the Opera
Performance
Street Fighter
Howards End
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Shakespeare in Love
Ice
Doctor Jekyll
James and the Giant Peach
George and the Dragon
Maurice
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Angels in America
Angels in America
Mindhorn
Victory
Galavant
Eternal Return
Étoile
The Cleaner
Creditors
Chemical Wedding
A Room with a View
Merchant Ivory
The Company
Manifesto
Arn: The Knight Templar
Old Flames
Revisiting Brideshead
Deadly Appearances
Golden Years
Playhouse Presents
The Man Who Invented Christmas
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Shoebox Zoo
Blue Iguana
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
No Man's Land
Moses
Thunderpants
Postcards from the Edge
Femme Fatale
Camp Christmas
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Saturday Review
Bright Young Things
Christmas Carol: The Movie
Bob the Butler
Jefferson in Paris
Carry On Laughing
Rag Tale
Born Silly
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Surprised by Oxford
The Woman In White
Chance in a Million
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Ice
Viceroy's House
Love's Kitchen
The Fringe, Fame and Me
The Good Father
Arn: The Knight Templar
Late Bloomers
Testament: The Bible in Animation
El pasajero clandestino
Victoria & Abdul
The Best Man
There's Something About Romcoms
The Boy That Never Was
Ripley Under Ground
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
The Holiday List
Don't Eat the Neighbours
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
50 Years Legal
The Crucifer of Blood
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
The British Guide to Showing Off
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Surveillance 24/7
Dodger Special: Coronation
David Copperfield
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Bedrooms and Hallways
Around The World In 80 Days
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Acts of Godfrey
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
The Madness of Boy George
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Men of Mystery
Roman Mysteries
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
The Scarlet Tunic
The Christmas Tree
An Audience with Charles Dickens
The Dead Room
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
Orson Welles Over Europe
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
Hampstead
Shakespeare's Sonnets
A Christmas Carol
Cariani and the Courtesans
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
The Trials of Oz
The Man of Destiny
Them From That Thing
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Art of Freedom
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Acting
Theatreland
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
The Rebel
Dead Head
Save Our Bacon
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
Little Napoleons
Jamie's Dream School
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
Miss in Her Teens
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
The Pay Day
England, My England
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
How Gay Sex Changed the World
The Reluctant Dragon
Being Shakespeare
Revolutionary Witness
Reviving Harry Lime
Royal Variety Performance 1984
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
