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Profile of Simon Callow
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13th June 1949 |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Simon Philip Hugh Callow, CBE (born June 13, 1949 in London, England) is a highly-regarded British actor of stage, film and television, and a biographer of Orson Welles and Charles Laughton.
Callow studied at Queen's University, Belfast before giving up his degree course to go into acting. He was already a successful stage actor before making his film debut in a minor role in Amadeus in 1984 (having played Mozart in the original stage production at the Royal National Theatre).
By his thirties, Callow was playing character and often comic parts. He starred in several series of the Channel 4 sitcom, Chance in a Million, as Tom Chance, an eccentric individual to whom coincidences happened regularly. Ironically, roles like this and his part in Four Weddings and a Funeral brought him a wider audience than his many critically-acclaimed stage appearances. At the same time, he was successful both as a director and as a writer — mostly of works about acting.
One of Callow's best-known works is Love Is Where It Falls, a poignant analysis of his eleven-year relationship with Peggy Ramsay, a prominent theatrical agent. He has also written extensively about Charles Dickens, whom he has played in a one-man show on stage, reading from Dickens' work, and on television several times, including in The Unquiet Dead, a 2005 episode of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.
Callow is also one of the most prominent openly gay actors in Brittain.
In 1999, he was awarded the CBE for his services to acting.
His first TV role was in Carry On Laughing episode Orgy and Bess, in 1975, but it was apparently cut from the final print.
He appeared with Saeed Jaffrey in 1994 British television series Little Napoleons.
In 2004, he appeared on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain for charity causes.
Selected filmography
- Flushed Away (2006) (voice)
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
- Shoebox Zoo (2004) (TV series) (voice)
- Angels in America (2003) (TV)
- Bright Young Things (2003)
- Thunderpants (2002)
- No Man's Land (2001)
- Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) (voice)
- Notting Hill (1999) (uncredited)
- Shakespeare in Love (1998)
- James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice)
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
- Jefferson in Paris (1995)
- Street Fighter (1994)
- Little Napoleons (1994) (miniseries)
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
- Howards End (1992) (uncredited)
- Postcards from the Edge (1990)
- Maurice (1987)
- A Room with a View (1985)
- Amadeus (1984)
- Chance in a Million (1984) (TV series)
External link
- Simon Callow at the Internet Movie Database
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