Simon Callow
Acting
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+.
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
as Vincent Cadby
Age 46 (now 76)
Christmas Carol: The Movie
as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Age 52 (now 76)
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
as Cavendish
Age 74 (now 76)
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
as Himself
Age 75 (now 76)
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
as Self
Age 75 (now 76)
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
as Cavendish
Age 74 (now 76)
Dodger Special: Coronation
as Archbishop of Canterbury
Age 74 (now 76)
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
as Richard O'Keefe
Age 74 (now 76)
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
as Self
Age 73 (now 76)
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
as Narrator
Age 73 (now 76)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Alexander Pope
Age 72 (now 76)
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
as Narrator
Age 71 (now 76)
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
as Narrator (voice)
Age 65 (now 76)
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
as Self - Host - Narrator
Age 65 (now 76)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
Age 65 (now 76)
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
as Self
Age 64 (now 76)
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
as Dickie Attenborough
Age 63 (now 76)
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
as Self
Age 59 (now 76)
Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
as Self
Age 57 (now 76)
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as George Russell
Age 56 (now 76)
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
Age 56 (now 76)
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
as Mr. Wroth
Age 55 (now 76)
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
as Charles Dickens
Age 53 (now 76)
Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
Director
Age 52 (now 76) Christmas Carol: The Movie
as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
Age 52 (now 76)
Around The World In 80 Days
as Phileas Fogg (voice)
Age 50 (now 76)
An Audience with Charles Dickens
as Charles Dickens
Age 46 (now 76) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
as Vincent Cadby
Age 46 (now 76)
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
as George Frideric Handel
Age 35 (now 76)
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
as Maximillian
Age 30 (now 76)
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Age 73 (now 76)
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
as narrator
Age 71 (now 76)
Secrets of Britain's Great Cathedrals
Creator
Age 69 (now 76)
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
as Self
Age 64 (now 76)
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
as Narrator
Age 61 (now 76)
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
as Readings (voice)
Age 59 (now 76)
The Sarah Jane Adventures
as Tree Blathereen (voice)
Age 58 (now 76)
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
as George Russell
Age 56 (now 76)
Shoebox Zoo
as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
Age 55 (now 76)
Angels in America
as Prior Walter Ancestor #2 (uncredited)
Age 54 (now 76)
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
as Charles Dickens
Age 53 (now 76)
Testament: The Bible in Animation
as Meneptah (voice)
Age 47 (now 76)
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
as Hugo Trenchfoot (voice)
Age 46 (now 76)
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Aubrey Judd
Age 22 (now 76)
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Also Known As
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, 사이먼 캘로우, سایمن کالو
IMDB
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