Simon Callow

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 13, 1949 (75 years old)

Simon Callow

Known For

Eternal Return
Movie 2025

Eternal Return

The film follows Cass, a young woman who has resigned herself to a life of emotional invulnerability until she meets Virgil, a cartographer who makes maps to imaginary places. Along with his partner Malcolm, a vibrant renaissance man, the pair relentlessly attempts to travel back in time to awaken Cass to love again.

Étoile
TV Show 2025

Étoile

In an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions, two world-renowned ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their most talented stars. From the Executive Producers of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel comes a bold new series celebrating the beauty, humor, and unpredictability of a life devoted to the arts, both on stage and off.

The Holiday List
1h 26m
Movie 2024

The Holiday List

A woman sets out a well-intentioned plan of bringing her dysfunctional family together in the wake of the family's matriarch, her mother-in-law.

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.

The Boy That Never Was
0h 51m
TV Show 2024

The Boy That Never Was

When Dillon’s father Harry races back to their tiny apartment to rescue his child, the apartment is in rubble and there is no sign of his son. Three years later, thousands of miles away in Dublin, Harry spots a six-year-old boy in a crowd and is convinced he is Dillon. Desperate to find his son, Harry’s obsession tears apart his marriage to Robin, exposing shameful secrets that lead to the truth of what happened to their son on the night he went missing.

Merchant Ivory
1h 51m
Movie 2024

Merchant Ivory

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and intelligence. With six Oscar winners among the notable artists participating, these close and often long-term collaborators intimately detail the transformational cinematic creativity and personal and professional drama of the wandering company that left an indelible impact on film culture.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
1h 33m
Movie 2024

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Five months following the murders, Christopher Robin struggles to maintain a regular life while dealing with PTSD. However, deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after their existence is revealed.

Dodger Special: Coronation
0h 54m
Movie 2023

Dodger Special: Coronation

Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.

Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
1h 37m
Movie 2023

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

The rapid rise and violent fall of rock band Stack of Corpses whose attempt to jump start their career by stealing another singer’s song ends up with bloody and unexpected consequences. Told through 6 chapters of the band's life.

Doctor Jekyll
1h 29m
Movie 2023

Doctor Jekyll

Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.

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+

Acting

2025
Eternal Return
2025
Étoile
2024
The Holiday List
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
The Boy That Never Was
2024
Merchant Ivory
2024
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
2023
Dodger Special: Coronation
2023
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
2023
Doctor Jekyll
2023
Surprised by Oxford
2022
The Pay Day
2022
American: An Odyssey to 1947
2022
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2021
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
2020
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
2018
The Dead Room
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
Blue Iguana
2017
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Victoria & Abdul
2017
50 Years Legal
2017
Hampstead
2017
Viceroy's House
2016
Mindhorn
2016
There's Something About Romcoms
2016
The Rebel
2016
Golden Years
2015
Creditors
2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2013
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
2012
Them From That Thing
2011
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
2011
Ice
2009
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2007
The Company
2006
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2004
Shoebox Zoo
2002
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
2001
Don't Eat the Neighbours
1994
Little Napoleons
1986
David Copperfield
1986
Dead Head
1985
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
1984
Amadeus

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