Eternal Return
2026 · Movie
as Malcolm
Simon Callow
1949-06-13
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Streatham, London, England, UK
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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+.
Filmography
The Man with the Plan
2026 · Movie
as William Beveridge
Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece
2025 · Movie
as Himself
Étoile
2025 · TV Show
as Crispin Shamblee
It's Christmas!
2024 · Movie
as Samuel
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
2024 · Movie
as Cavendish
Merchant Ivory
2024 · Movie
as Self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · Movie
as self
Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024 · Movie
as Self
Aguska
2024 · Movie
as Patrick Carter
The Boy That Never Was
2024 · TV Show
as Cozimo
Surprised by Oxford
2023 · Movie
as Dr. Sterling
Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll
2023 · Movie
as Richard O'Keefe
Dodger Special: Coronation
2023 · Movie
as Archbishop of Canterbury
Doctor Jekyll
2023 · Movie
as Journalist
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022 · Movie
American: An Odyssey to 1947
2022 · Movie
as Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022 · Movie
as Self
The Pay Day
2022 · Movie
as Gates
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022 · Movie
as Narrator
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022 · Movie
as Self
Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
2022 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021 · Movie
as Mr. Blunden
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021 · Movie
as Alexander Pope
The Cleaner
2021 · TV Show
as Mr. Abahassine
Hawkeye
2021 · TV Show
as Armand Duquesne III
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Classical Destinations: The Great Composers
2021 · TV Show
as narrator
Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet
2020 · Movie
as Narrator
The Witcher
2019 · TV Show
as Codringher
Blue Iguana
2018 · Movie
as Uncle Martin
The Dead Room
2018 · Movie
as Aubrey Judd
A Christmas Carol
2018 · Movie
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018 · Movie
as Self
Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty
2017 · Movie
Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Movie
as Mr. Puccini
Viceroy's House
2017 · Movie
as Cyril Radcliffe
Hampstead
2017 · Movie
as Judge
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · Movie
as Leech
50 Years Legal
2017 · Movie
as Self
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Born Silly
2017 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017 · TV Show
as Self
There's Something About Romcoms
2016 · Movie
as Self
Golden Years
2016 · Movie
as Royston
Mindhorn
2016 · Movie
as Himself
The Rebel
2016 · TV Show
as Henry Palmer
Creditors
2015 · Movie
Galavant
2015 · TV Show
as Edwin the Magnificent
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
2014 · Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Miss in Her Teens
2014 · Movie
as The Author
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014 · Movie
as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer
The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World
2014 · Movie
as Self - Host - Narrator
Outlander
2014 · TV Show
as Duke of Sandringham
Inside No. 9
2014 · TV Show
as Dick
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
2013 · Movie
as Self
Plebs
2013 · TV Show
A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
2013 · TV Show
as Self
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
2012 · Movie
as Dickie Attenborough
Acts of Godfrey
2012 · Movie
as Godfrey
Being Shakespeare
2012 · Movie
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012 · Movie
Them From That Thing
2012 · TV Show
as Various
Playhouse Presents
2012 · TV Show
as Dudley
Ice
2011 · Movie
as Prime Minister
Late Bloomers
2011 · Movie
as Richard
The British Guide to Showing Off
2011 · Movie
as Self
Art of Freedom
2011 · Movie
as Self
Love's Kitchen
2011 · Movie
as Guy Witherspoon
Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags
2011 · TV Show
as Narrator
Ice
2011 · TV Show
as Prime Minister
Death in Paradise
2011 · TV Show
as Larry South
Jamie's Dream School
2011 · TV Show
as Himself
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Save Our Bacon
2010 · Movie
as The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)
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The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
2010 · Movie
as Self
Arn: The Knight Templar
2010 · TV Show
as Fader Henry
Theatreland
2009 · Movie
as Self
Orson Welles Over Europe
2009 · Movie
as Self - Presenter
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The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2009 · TV Show
as Readings (voice)
Chemical Wedding
2008 · Movie
as Haddo
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
2008 · Movie
as Self
Q&A
2008 · TV Show
as Self - Panellist
Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 · Movie
as Father Henry
Surveillance 24/7
2007 · Movie
as St John
How Gay Sex Changed the World
2007 · Movie
as Self
The Company
2007 · TV Show
as MI6 liaison officer Elihu
Roman Mysteries
2007 · TV Show
as Pliny
Derren Brown: Trick or Treat
2007 · TV Show
as Himself
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007 · TV Show
as Tree Blathereen (voice)
British Film Forever
2007 · TV Show
Lewis
2007 · TV Show
as Vernon Oxe
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006 · Movie
as George Russell
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Men of Mystery
2006 · Movie
as Himself
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Reviving Harry Lime
2006 · Movie
as Himself
The Madness of Boy George
2006 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask
2006 · Movie
as Self
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006 · TV Show
as George Russell
Great British Menu
2006 · TV Show
as Self - Guest Judge
The Best Man
2005 · Movie
as Big-Time Publisher
Revisiting Brideshead
2005 · Movie
as Narrator
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005 · Movie
as Mr. Wroth
Bob the Butler
2005 · Movie
as Mr. Butler
Rag Tale
2005 · Movie
as Cormac Rourke
Ripley Under Ground
2005 · Movie
as Dean Bentliffe
Doctor Who
2005 · TV Show
as Charles Dickens
George and the Dragon
2004 · Movie
as King Edgar
The Phantom of the Opera
2004 · Movie
as Andre
Shoebox Zoo
2004 · TV Show
as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
as Colonel Melchett
Bright Young Things
2003 · Movie
as King of Anatolia
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003 · Movie
as Bob
Angels in America
2003 · TV Show
as Prior 2, Prior Walter Ancestor #2 (uncredited)
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
2002 · Movie
as Charles Dickens
Thunderpants
2002 · Movie
as Sir John Osgood
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
2002 · Movie
as Galileo
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
2002 · TV Show
as Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol: The Movie
2001 · Movie
as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
No Man's Land
2001 · Movie
as Colonel Soft
Don't Eat the Neighbours
2001 · TV Show
Around The World In 80 Days
2000 · Movie
as Phileas Fogg (voice)
Deadly Appearances
2000 · Movie
as Rick Spencer
Animated Epics: Don Quixote
2000 · Movie
as Don Quixote
Notting Hill
1999 · Movie
as Simon Callow (uncredited)
Loose Women
1999 · TV Show
as Self
Shakespeare in Love
1998 · Movie
as Tilney
The Scarlet Tunic
1998 · Movie
as Captain Fairfax
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998 · Movie
as Keith
Parkinson
1998 · TV Show
as Self
The Woman In White
1997 · Movie
as Count Fosco
Midsomer Murders
1997 · TV Show
as Dr. Wellow
Trial & Retribution
1997 · TV Show
as Rupert Halliday
The Woman In White
1997 · TV Show
as Count Fosco
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Movie
as Grasshopper (voice)
Victory
1996 · Movie
as Zangiacomo
Moses
1996 · Movie
as Meneptah II (voice)
An Audience with Charles Dickens
1996 · Movie
as Charles Dickens
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
1996 · TV Show
as Hugo Trenchfoot (voice)
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · TV Show
as Meneptah (voice)
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · Movie
as Vincent Cadby
Jefferson in Paris
1995 · Movie
as Richard Cosway
England, My England
1995 · Movie
as Charles II
El pasajero clandestino
1995 · Movie
as Major Owens
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 · Movie
as Gareth
Street Fighter
1994 · Movie
as A. N. Official
Little Napoleons
1994 · TV Show
as Edward Feathers
Femme Fatale
1993 · Movie
as Vicar Ronnie
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993 · Movie
as Eddie Cherdowski
Camp Christmas
1993 · Movie
Howards End
1992 · Movie
as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)
The Trials of Oz
1991 · Movie
as John Mortimer
The Crucifer of Blood
1991 · Movie
as Inspector Lestrade
Performance
1991 · TV Show
as John Mortimer
Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Movie
as Simon Asquith
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1990 · Movie
as Dr. Alex Sauer
Old Flames
1990 · Movie
as Nathanial Quass
Revolutionary Witness
1989 · Movie
as Franciscus Palloy
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV Show
as Dr. Lutz
Manifesto
1988 · Movie
as Police Chief Hunt
Maurice
1987 · Movie
as Mr. Ducie
Cariani and the Courtesans
1987 · Movie
as Raimondi
The Reluctant Dragon
1987 · Movie
as Dragon (voice)
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Acting
1987 · TV Show
Inspector Morse
1987 · TV Show
as Theodore Kemp
A Room with a View
1986 · Movie
as The Reverend Mr. Beebe
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The Christmas Tree
1986 · Movie
as Jacob Weinberg
Dead Head
1986 · TV Show
as Hugo Silver
David Copperfield
1986 · TV Show
as Wilkins Micawber
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV Show
as Raimondi
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Split Screen
1986 · TV Show
The Good Father
1985 · Movie
as Mark Varda
Honour, Profit & Pleasure
1985 · Movie
as George Frideric Handel
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
as Nathanial Quass
Amadeus
1984 · Movie
as Emanuel Schikaneder
Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984 · Movie
Chance in a Million
1984 · TV Show
as Tom Chance
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Saturday Review
1984 · TV Show
as Self
The Man of Destiny
1981 · Movie
as Napoleon
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
1979 · Movie
as Maximillian
Question Time
1979 · TV Show
as Himself - Panellist
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The Sunday Drama
1977 · TV Show
as The Prince
Victorian Scandals
1976 · TV Show
as Duval
The Sweeney
1975 · TV Show
as Detective Sergeant
Carry On Laughing
1975 · TV Show
as Crew Member
NOVA
1974 · TV Show
as Galileo
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971 · TV Show
as Aubrey Judd
Omnibus
1967 · TV Show
as Self
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The Reformation of Sister Edith
· Movie
as Abbot Pentecost
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The Northumbria Mysteries
· TV Show
as David
