Simon Callow

ActorWriterDirector Jun 13 (age 76) Streatham, London, England, UK 1967–2026 (59 year career)

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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, …

Known For

Film

Amadeus

Emanuel Schikaneder

Film

Notting Hill

Simon Callow (uncredited)

Film

Shakespeare in Love

Tilney

Film

The Phantom of the Opera

Andre

Film

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Gareth

Film

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Vincent Cadby

Film

Victoria & Abdul

Mr. Puccini

Film

Maurice

Mr. Ducie

Filmography

Acting (178)

Movies (120)

Eternal Return

2026 Upcoming

as Malcolm

Apr 16

The Man with the Plan

2026 Upcoming

as William Beveridge

Apr 17

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

2024

as Self

4.5

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

as Cavendish

Merchant Ivory

as Self

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

as self

It's Christmas!

as Samuel

Dodger Special: Coronation

2023

as Archbishop of Canterbury

Surprised by Oxford

as Dr. Sterling

Doctor Jekyll

as Journalist

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

2023

as Richard O'Keefe

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

2022

as Self

8.0

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

2022

7.1

The Fringe, Fame and Me

2022

as Self

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

as Narrator

The Pay Day

as Gates

American: An Odyssey to 1947

2022

as Self

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

2021

as Mr. Blunden

6.2

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

2021

as Alexander Pope

Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet

as Narrator

Blue Iguana

as Uncle Martin

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

as Self

A Christmas Carol

The Dead Room

as Aubrey Judd

50 Years Legal

as Self

The Man Who Invented Christmas

as Leech

Viceroy's House

as Cyril Radcliffe

Victoria & Abdul

as Mr. Puccini

Hampstead

as Judge

Born Silly

as Narrator (voice)

Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty

Mindhorn

as Himself

There's Something About Romcoms

as Self

Golden Years

as Royston

Creditors

Miss in Her Teens

as The Author

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

2014

as Self - Host - Narrator

Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

2014

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

2014

as Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer

6.5

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

2013

as Self

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2012

Acts of Godfrey

2012

as Godfrey

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

2012

as Dickie Attenborough

Being Shakespeare

Ice

as Prime Minister

Art of Freedom

as Self

Love's Kitchen

as Guy Witherspoon

Late Bloomers

as Richard

The British Guide to Showing Off

2011

as Self

6.6

The Unforgettable Harry Secombe

2010

as Self

8.5

Save Our Bacon

2010

as The Swinesbury's Boss (voice)

Orson Welles Over Europe

2009

as Himself - Presenter

7.0

Theatreland

2009

as Himself

Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait

as Self

Chemical Wedding

as Haddo

Arn: The Knight Templar

as Father Henry

Surveillance 24/7

as St John

How Gay Sex Changed the World

2007

as Self

4.0

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

2006

as George Russell

5.1

Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask

2006

as Self

5.6

Men of Mystery

2006

as Himself

The Madness of Boy George

2006

as Narrator (voice)

2.7

Reviving Harry Lime

2006

as Himself

Bob the Butler

2005

as Mr. Butler

5.6

Revisiting Brideshead

2005

as Narrator

Ripley Under Ground

2005

as Dean Bentliffe

5.5

The Best Man

2005

as Big-Time Publisher

5.3

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

as Mr. Wroth

Rag Tale

as Cormac Rourke

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

2005

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

The Phantom of the Opera

2004

as Andre

7.3

George and the Dragon

2004

as King Edgar

5.5

Thank You, Doctor Rey

as Bob

Bright Young Things

as King of Anatolia

The Mystery of Charles Dickens

as Charles Dickens

Thunderpants

as Sir John Osgood

Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens

2002

as Galileo

No Man's Land

2001

as Colonel Soft

7.5

Christmas Carol: The Movie

2001

as Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

5.2

Deadly Appearances

2000

as Rick Spencer

5.0

Around The World In 80 Days

2000

as Phileas Fogg (voice)

Animated Epics: Don Quixote

2000

as Don Quixote

Notting Hill

1999

as Simon Callow (uncredited)

7.3

Shakespeare in Love

1998

as Tilney

6.8

Bedrooms and Hallways

as Keith

The Scarlet Tunic

as Captain Fairfax

The Woman In White

as Count Fosco

James and the Giant Peach

1996

as Grasshopper (voice)

6.6

An Audience with Charles Dickens

1996

as Charles Dickens

Moses

1996

as Meneptah II (voice)

6.0

Victory

1996

as Zangiacomo

4.8

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

as Vincent Cadby

Jefferson in Paris

as Richard Cosway

El pasajero clandestino

as Major Owens

England, My England

as Charles II

Four Weddings and a Funeral

as Gareth

Street Fighter

as A. N. Official

Femme Fatale

as Vicar Ronnie

Camp Christmas

1993

2.7

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

1993

as Eddie Cherdowski

6.2

Howards End

1992

as Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited)

7.0

The Crucifer of Blood

1991

as Inspector Lestrade

6.5

The Trials of Oz

1991

as John Mortimer

6.0

Postcards from the Edge

as Simon Asquith

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

as Dr. Alex Sauer

Old Flames

as Nathanial Quass

Revolutionary Witness

1989

as Franciscus Palloy

Manifesto

as Police Chief Hunt

Maurice

as Mr. Ducie

Cariani and the Courtesans

1987

as Raimondi

The Reluctant Dragon

1987

as Dragon (voice)

6.0

The Christmas Tree

1986

as Jacob Weinberg

A Room with a View

1986

as The Reverend Mr. Beebe

6.9

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

1985

as George Frideric Handel

The Good Father

1985

as Mark Varda

5.4

Amadeus

1984

as Emanuel Schikaneder

8.0

Royal Variety Performance 1984

1984

The Man of Destiny

1981

as Napoleon

Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

1979

as Maximillian

4.5

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble

as Cavendish

Television (58)

Étoile

2025

as Crispin Shamblee

7.1

The Boy That Never Was

2024

as Cozimo

6.1

Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors

2022

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Hawkeye

2021

as Armand Duquesne III

7.8

The Cleaner

2021

as Mr. Abahassine

7.0

Classical Destinations: The Great Composers

2021

as narrator

The Witcher

2019

as Codringher

7.9

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

2017

as Self

The Rebel

2016

as Henry Palmer

7.2

Galavant

2015

as Edwin the Magnificent

7.3

Outlander

2014

as Duke of Sandringham

Inside No. 9

as Dick

Plebs

A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley

as Himself

Playhouse Presents

as Dudley

Them From That Thing

as Various

Death in Paradise

2011

as Larry South

7.5

Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags

as Narrator

Ice

as Prime Minister

Jamie's Dream School

as Himself

Arn: The Knight Templar

2010

as Fader Henry

7.5

The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words

2009

as Readings (voice)

Q&A

2008

as Self - Panellist

3.2

The Sarah Jane Adventures

2007

as Tree Blathereen (voice)

7.1

The Company

2007

as MI6 liaison officer Elihu

7.3

Roman Mysteries

2007

as Pliny

5.0

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat

2007

as Himself

8.1

Great British Menu

2006

as Self - Guest Judge

6.5

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

as George Russell

Doctor Who

as Charles Dickens

A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

as Aubrey Judd

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Colonel Melchett

7.8

Shoebox Zoo

2004

as Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice)

Little Britain

Angels in America

as Prior Walter Ancestor #2

7.6

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

2002

as Charles Dickens

7.2

Don't Eat the Neighbours

Loose Women

as Self

Parkinson

as Self

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Dr. Wellow

7.5

Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

1996

as Hugo Trenchfoot (voice)

6.2

Testament: The Bible in Animation

1996

as Meneptah (voice)

6.4

Little Napoleons

1994

as Edward Feathers

Performance

1991

as John Mortimer

6.0

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Dr. Lutz

Inspector Morse

as Theodore Kemp

Acting

David Copperfield

as Wilkins Micawber

Dead Head

as Hugo Silver

Saturday Review

as Self

Chance in a Million

1984

as Tom Chance

6.7

Question Time

1979

as Himself - Panellist

5.5

Victorian Scandals

1976

as Duval

The Sweeney

1975

as Detective Sergeant

Carry On Laughing

as Crew Member

NOVA

as Galileo

A Ghost Story for Christmas

as Aubrey Judd

Omnibus

as Self

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

A Christmas Carol

2018

Writer

7.4

Orson Welles Over Europe

2009

Writer

7.0

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

2002

Director

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

1991

Director

5.5