
Simon Callow
Born June 13, 1949 · Streatham, London, England, UK
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+.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Notting Hill

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Amadeus

Street Fighter

The Phantom of the Opera

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Shakespeare in Love

James and the Giant Peach

A Room with a View

Victoria & Abdul

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Howards End

Arn: The Knight Templar

Jefferson in Paris

Maurice

Merchant Ivory

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

Postcards from the Edge

George and the Dragon

No Man's Land

Viceroy's House

Christmas Carol: The Movie

The Best Man

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Hampstead

The Man with the Plan

Thunderpants

Ice

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Love's Kitchen

Mindhorn

Bright Young Things

The Amazing Maurice: The Waters of Life

Ripley Under Ground

Blue Iguana

There's Something About Romcoms

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

The Crucifer of Blood

Eternal Return

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Royal Variety Performance 1984

The Woman In White

The Fringe, Fame and Me

Bob the Butler

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

Bedrooms and Hallways

Golden Years

The Trials of Oz

Doctor Jekyll

The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
TV Shows

Outlander

NOVA

Screen Two

The Witcher

Question Time

Loose Women

Lewis

Agatha Christie's Marple

Omnibus

Parkinson

Inside No. 9

Inspector Morse

The Sweeney

Hawkeye

Performance

Great British Menu

Q&A

The Sarah Jane Adventures

ScreenPlay

Playhouse Presents

Trial & Retribution

Bookish

Plebs

A Ghost Story for Christmas

Shoebox Zoo

Galavant

The Cleaner

Angels in America

Étoile

The Company

Carry On Laughing

Don't Eat the Neighbours

Victorian Scandals

British Film Forever

Testament: The Bible in Animation

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

Arn: The Knight Templar

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

Chance in a Million

David Copperfield

Them From That Thing

The Boy That Never Was

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat

Roman Mysteries

Little Napoleons

A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley

Dead Head

The Woman In White

Ice

Jamie's Dream School

The Rebel

Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags

Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
More Movies

Femme Fatale

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Cariani and the Courtesans

The Good Father

American: An Odyssey to 1947

Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask

Late Bloomers

Surprised by Oxford

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

Moses

Animated Epics: Don Quixote

Revisiting Brideshead

It's Christmas!

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Manifesto

Miss in Her Teens

Orson Welles Over Europe

The British Guide to Showing Off

Rag Tale

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait

Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll

Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece

Thank You, Doctor Rey

Victory

Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

50 Years Legal

The Madness of Boy George

How Gay Sex Changed the World

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Theatreland

The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World

Around The World In 80 Days

The Man of Destiny

Chemical Wedding

The Dead Room

Acts of Godfrey

Old Flames

Dodger Special: Coronation

Camp Christmas

Art of Freedom

England, My England

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

The Pay Day

Revolutionary Witness

An Audience with Charles Dickens

Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet

Deadly Appearances

The Scarlet Tunic

El pasajero clandestino

Aguska

Creditors

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens

Surveillance 24/7

A Christmas Carol

The Reluctant Dragon




