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