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Aliases: Simon Phillip Hugh Callow , 사이먼 캘로우 , سایمن کالو

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Streatham, London, England, UK

Homepage: http://simoncallow.com/

Movie Involvements: 69

TV Involvements: 29


Most Famous Work

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+

Most Famous Work

Doctor Who
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8

Doctor Who

(2005) Charles Dickens
NOVA
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7

NOVA

(1974) Galileo
Outlander
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8

Outlander

(2014) Duke of Sandringham
Agatha Christie's Poirot
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8

Agatha Christie's Poirot

(1989) Dr. Lutz
Midsomer Murders
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8

Midsomer Murders

(1997) Dr. Wellow
The Witcher
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8

The Witcher

(2019) Codringher
Inspector Morse
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8

Inspector Morse

(1987) Theodore Kemp
The Sweeney
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8

The Sweeney

(1975) Detective Sergeant

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Cavendish
2023 Archbishop of Canterbury
Self
Richard O'Keefe
N/A
Dr. Sterling
2022 Dick
Gates
Self
Self - Narrator (voice)
Self
Narrator
N/A
2021 Mr. Blunden
Armand Duquesne III
Alexander Pope
Mr. Abahassine
2020 Narrator
2019 Codringher
2018 Aubrey Judd
N/A
Self
Uncle Martin
2017 N/A
Leech
Mr. Puccini
Self
Judge
Self
Cyril Radcliffe
2016 Himself
Self
Royston
2015 Edwin the Magnificent
N/A
2014 Narrator (voice)
N/A
Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
Duke of Sandringham
The Author
Dick
2013 Self
Himself
N/A
2012 Dickie Attenborough
Various
N/A
Dudley
N/A
Godfrey
2011 Self
Larry South
Richard
Guy Witherspoon
Self
Narrator
Himself
Prime Minister
Prime Minister
2010 Self
The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)
Fader Henry
2009 Himself - Presenter
Readings (voice)
Himself
2008 Self
Self - Panellist
Haddo
2007 Father Henry
MI6 liaison officer Elihu
St John
Pliny
Himself
Himself
2006 Narrator (voice)
George Russell
Himself
George Russell
Himself
2005 Dean Bentliffe
Self (archive footage)
Narrator
Cormac Rourke
Big-Time Publisher
Mr. Wroth
Charles Dickens
Mr. Butler
2004 Colonel Melchett
Andre
Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
King Edgar
2003 Prior 2
Prior Walter Ancestor #2
King of Anatolia
N/A
2002 Galileo
Charles Dickens
Bob
Charles Dickens
Sir John Osgood
2001 Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
N/A
Colonel Soft
2000 Rick Spencer
Don Quixote
Phileas Fogg (voice)
1999 Self
Simon Callow (uncredited)
1998 Tilney
Keith
Captain Fairfax
1997 Dr. Wellow
Count Fosco
1996 Zangiacomo
Meneptah (voice)
Meneptah II (voice)
Grasshopper (voice)
Hugo Trenchfoot (voice)
1995 Vincent Cadby
Richard Cosway
Charles II
Major Owens
1994 A.N. Official
Edward Feathers
Gareth
1993 Vicar Ronnie
Eddie Cherdowski
1992 Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
1991 John Mortimer
Inspector Lestrade
John Mortimer
1990 Dr. Alex Sauer
Simon Asquith
Nathanial Quass
1989 Franciscus Palloy
Dr. Lutz
1988 Police Chief Hunt
1987 Dragon (voice)
Mr. Ducie
N/A
Raimondi
Theodore Kemp
1986 Wilkins Micawber
The Reverend Mr. Beebe
Hugo Silver
1985 Mark Varda
George Frideric Handel
1984 Emanuel Schikaneder
Tom Chance
1981 Napoleon
1979 Maximillian
Himself - Panellist
1975 Detective Sergeant
1974 Galileo
Malcolm
N/A
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Creator

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Writer
2009 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing


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