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Simon Callow
Born · June 13, 1949 (75 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Streatham, London, England, UK
Bio
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+
Eternal Return
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2025
Étoile
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0.0
2025
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
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The Holiday List
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5.2
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
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2024
The Boy That Never Was
Cozimo · (4 episodes)
6.6
2024
Merchant Ivory
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7.7
2024
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Cavendish
6.0
2024
Dodger Special: Coronation
Archbishop of Canterbury
10.0
2023
Doctor Jekyll
4.9
2023
Surprised by Oxford
Dr. Sterling
5.8
2023
The Pay Day
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4.1
2022
American: An Odyssey to 1947
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0.0
2022
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
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2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
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2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Narrator
8.0
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
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2022
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
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6.2
2021
Hawkeye
Armand Duquesne III · (1 episode)
7.8
2021
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Alexander Pope
0.0
2021
The Cleaner
Mr. Abahassine · (1 episode)
7.0
2021
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
narrator · (8 episodes)
0.0
2021
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
Narrator
8.0
2020
The Witcher
Codringher · (2 episodes)
8.0
2019
The Dead Room
Aubrey Judd
5.7
2018
A Christmas Carol
7.7
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self
7.1
2018
Blue Iguana
Uncle Martin
5.8
2018
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
6.5
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Leech
6.8
2017
Victoria & Abdul
Mr. Puccini
6.9
2017
50 Years Legal
Self
7.2
2017
Hampstead
Judge
6.0
2017
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2017
Viceroy's House
Cyril Radcliffe
6.7
2017
Mindhorn
Himself
6.1
2016
There's Something About Romcoms
Self
6.0
2016
The Rebel
Henry Palmer · (9 episodes)
7.5
2016
Golden Years
Royston
6.3
2016
Galavant
Edwin the Magnificent · (1 episode)
7.4
2015
Creditors
5.0
2015
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Narrator (voice)
7.5
2014
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
0.0
2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
6.7
2014
Outlander
Duke of Sandringham · (5 episodes)
8.2
2014
Miss in Her Teens
The Author
3.0
2014
Inside No. 9
Dick · (1 episode)
8.0
2014
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
Self
0.0
2013
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
Himself · (3 episodes)
7.0
2013
Plebs
(1 episode)
7.3
2013
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Dickie Attenborough
5.0
2012
Them From That Thing
Various · (2 episodes)
0.0
2012
Shakespeare's Sonnets
0.0
2012
Playhouse Presents
Dudley · (1 episode)
6.0
2012
Being Shakespeare
0.0
2012
Acts of Godfrey
Godfrey
0.0
2012
The British Guide to Showing Off
Self
6.6
2011
Death in Paradise
Larry South · (1 episode)
7.5
2011
Late Bloomers
Richard
5.2
2011
Love's Kitchen
Guy Witherspoon
5.3
2011
Art of Freedom
Self
9.2
2011
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
Narrator · (3 episodes)
8.0
2011
Jamie's Dream School
Himself · (1 episode)
0.0
2011
Ice
Prime Minister
5.6
2011
Ice
Prime Minister · (2 episodes)
10.0
2011
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
Self
8.5
2010
Save Our Bacon
The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)
0.0
2010
Arn: The Knight Templar
Fader Henry · (2 episodes)
7.5
2010
Orson Welles Over Europe
Himself - Presenter
7.0
2009
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
Readings (voice) · (1 episode)
0.0
2009
Theatreland
Himself
0.0
2009
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Self
7.7
2008
Q&A
Self - Panellist · (1 episode)
3.8
2008
Chemical Wedding
Haddo
4.5
2008
Arn: The Knight Templar
Father Henry
6.3
2007
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Tree Blathereen (voice) · (2 episodes)
7.1
2007
The Company
MI6 liaison officer Elihu · (3 episodes)
7.1
2007
Surveillance 24/7
St John
4.1
2007
Roman Mysteries
Pliny · (2 episodes)
5.0
2007
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
Himself · (1 episode)
8.5
2007
How Gay Sex Changed the World
Self
5.5
2007
The Madness of Boy George
Narrator (voice)
3.5
2006
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
George Russell · (2 episodes)
2.5
2006
Reviving Harry Lime
Himself
0.0
2006
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
George Russell
5.1
2006
Men of Mystery
Himself
0.0
2006
Ripley Under Ground
Dean Bentliffe
5.6
2005
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Self (archive footage)
10.0
2005
Revisiting Brideshead
Narrator
0.0
2005
Rag Tale
Cormac Rourke
3.8
2005
The Best Man
Big-Time Publisher
5.4
2005
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Mr. Wroth
4.4
2005
Doctor Who
Charles Dickens · (3 episodes)
7.5
2005
Bob the Butler
Mr. Butler
5.6
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Colonel Melchett · (1 episode)
7.6
2004
The Phantom of the Opera
Andre
7.3
2004
Shoebox Zoo
Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice) · (26 episodes)
7.8
2004
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Bob
5.7
2004
George and the Dragon
King Edgar
5.3
2004
Angels in America
Prior 2 · (0 episode)
7.6
2003
Angels in America
Prior Walter Ancestor #2 · (2 episodes)
7.6
2003
Bright Young Things
King of Anatolia
6.3
2003
Little Britain
(1 episode)
7.1
2003
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
Galileo
0.0
2002
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
8.0
2002
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
Charles Dickens · (2 episodes)
7.2
2002
Thunderpants
Sir John Osgood
3.5
2002
Christmas Carol: The Movie
Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
5.1
2001
Don't Eat the Neighbours
(26 episodes)
4.5
2001
No Man's Land
Colonel Soft
7.5
2001
Deadly Appearances
Rick Spencer
5.0
2000
Around The World In 80 Days
Phileas Fogg (voice)
0.0
2000
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
Don Quixote
0.0
2000
Loose Women
Self · (1 episode)
3.2
1999
Notting Hill
Simon Callow (uncredited)
7.3
1999
Shakespeare in Love
Tilney
6.9
1998
Bedrooms and Hallways
Keith
6.2
1998
The Scarlet Tunic
Captain Fairfax
4.5
1998
Parkinson
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1998
Midsomer Murders
Dr. Wellow · (1 episode)
7.5
1997
The Woman In White
Count Fosco
6.7
1997
Victory
Zangiacomo
5.1
1996
Testament: The Bible in Animation
Meneptah (voice) · (1 episode)
6.0
1996
Moses
Meneptah II (voice)
0.0
1996
James and the Giant Peach
Grasshopper (voice)
6.6
1996
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
Hugo Trenchfoot (voice) · (1 episode)
4.8
1996
An Audience with Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
0.0
1996
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Vincent Cadby
6.3
1995
Jefferson in Paris
Richard Cosway
5.2
1995
England, My England
Charles II
5.0
1995
El pasajero clandestino
Major Owens
5.0
1995
Street Fighter
A. N. Official
4.6
1994
Little Napoleons
Edward Feathers · (4 episodes)
0.0
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Gareth
6.8
1994
Camp Christmas
3.5
1993
Femme Fatale
Vicar Ronnie
0.0
1993
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Eddie Cherdowski
6.2
1993
Howards End
Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
7.0
1992
The Trials of Oz
John Mortimer
6.0
1991
The Crucifer of Blood
Inspector Lestrade
6.5
1991
Performance
John Mortimer · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Dr. Alex Sauer
6.0
1990
Postcards from the Edge
Simon Asquith
6.6
1990
Old Flames
Nathanial Quass
0.0
1990
Revolutionary Witness
Franciscus Palloy
0.0
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Lutz · (1 episode)
8.1
1989
Manifesto
Police Chief Hunt
4.0
1988
The Reluctant Dragon
Dragon (voice)
6.0
1987
Maurice
Mr. Ducie
7.6
1987
Acting
(1 episode)
0.0
1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
Raimondi
0.0
1987
Inspector Morse
Theodore Kemp · (1 episode)
7.8
1987
David Copperfield
Wilkins Micawber · (10 episodes)
4.8
1986
A Room with a View
The Reverend Mr. Beebe
7.0
1986
Dead Head
Hugo Silver · (4 episodes)
5.3
1986
The Good Father
Mark Varda
5.7
1985
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
George Frideric Handel
0.0
1985
Amadeus
Emanuel Schikaneder
8.0
1984
Chance in a Million
Tom Chance · (18 episodes)
6.7
1984
The Man of Destiny
Napoleon
0.0
1981
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
Maximillian
4.5
1979
Question Time
Himself - Panellist · (1 episode)
5.1
1979
The Sweeney
Detective Sergeant · (1 episode)
7.7
1975
NOVA
Galileo · (1 episode)
6.9
1974