Simon McBurney

ActorDirectorArtDirectingWriter Aug 25 (age 68) Cambridge, England, UK 1979–2025 (46 year career)

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Biography

Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Théâtre de Complicité in England, now called Complicite. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon McBurney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Kreacher (voice)

Film

The Theory of Everything

Frank Hawking

Film

The Conjuring 2

Maurice Grosse

Film

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Atlee

Film

Wolfwalkers

Lord Protector (voice)

Film

Allied

S.O.E. Official

Film

The Last King of Scotland

British Diplomat

Film

Carnival Row

Runyan Millworthy

Filmography

Acting (55)

Movies (44)

The Actor

2025

as Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton

Nosferatu

as Herr Knock

Gardening

as Detective Danforth

A Mistake

as Andrew McGrath

The Pale Blue Eye

as Captain Hitchcock

Siberia

as Magician

Wolfwalkers

as Lord Protector (voice)

8.2

The Mercy

2018

as Sir Francis Chichester

5.9

The Encounter

2017

as Himself

The Conjuring 2

as Maurice Grosse

Allied

as S.O.E. Official

John Berger or The Art of Looking

2016

as Self

5.2

The New Man

2016

as Self

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

2015

as Atlee

7.2

The Theory of Everything

2014

as Frank Hawking

7.8

Magic in the Moonlight

2014

as Howard Burkan

6.5

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

2013

as Tim Clancy

4.5

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as Oliver Lacon

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Brocklehurst

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

as Kreacher (voice)

Robin Hood

as Father Tancred

Boogie Woogie

as Robert Freign

The Duchess

as Charles Fox

Body of Lies

as Garland

The Golden Compass

as Fra Pavel

The Last King of Scotland

as British Diplomat

Friends with Money

as Aaron

The Manchurian Candidate

as Dr. Atticus Noyle

The Reckoning

as Stephen

Bright Young Things

as Sneath

Sweet Dreams

as Thomas

Eisenstein

as Sergei Eisenstein

Inside-Out

as Market researcher

Onegin

as Triquet

Cousin Bette

as Vauvinet

The Ogre

as Brigadier

Tom & Viv

as Dr. Reginald Miller

Being Human

as Hermas

Mesmer

as Franz Mesmer junior

5.9

A Business Affair

1994

as Salesman

4.6

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

1993

as Madman

The Crying Game

1992

as Mick

Kafka

1991

as Assistant Oscar

6.4

Burning Ambition

1988

as Martin

Television (11)

Hijack

as Edgar Janssen

Carnival Row

as Runyan Millworthy

The Loudest Voice

as Rupert Murdoch

The Casual Vacancy

as Colin Wall

Utopia

as Professor Donaldson

The Borgias

as Johannes Burchart

Rev.

as Robert

Midsomer Murders

as Henry Carstairs

Absolutely Fabulous

as Conductor (uncredited)

7.5

Performance

1991

as Pistol

6.0

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

1979

6.0

Crew (10)

Movies (10)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

2023

Director

The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

2023

Art Direction

Can I Live?

2021

Co-Director

The Encounter

2017

Director

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number

2010

Director

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number

2010

Writer

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Executive Producer

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Story

Lenny Henry Live - So Much Things To Say

2005

Creative Consultant

The Elephant Vanishes

2003

Director