Simon Callow

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Simon Phillip Hugh Callow (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, musician, writer, and theatre director.

Early years

Callow was born on 15 June 1949 in Streatham, 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. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. Callow was educated at the London Oratory School and then went on to study at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, where he was active in the Northern Ireland civil-rights movement, before giving up his degree course to train at the Drama Centre London.

Personal life

Callow was listed 28th in The Independent's 2007 listing of the most influential gay men and women in the UK. In the 1999 Birthday Honours, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to acting. He was one of the first actors to declare their homosexuality publicly, doing so in his 1984 book Being An Actor.

He married Sebastian Fox in June 2016.

In an interview, Callow stated:

In August 2014, Callow was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.

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Career

Callow's involvement in the theatre began after he wrote a fan letter to Sir Laurence Olivier, the National Theatre's artistic director, and got a response suggesting that he join their box-office employees. He realized he wanted to act when hearing actors rehearse.

Callow made his stage debut in 1973 when he appeared in The Three Estates Theatre in Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms. He appeared in Martin Sherman's critically acclaimed Passing By in the early 1970s and joined the Gay Sweatshop theatre company and appeared in Martin Sherman's critically acclaimed Passing By. He appeared in Epsom Downs' production in 1977, and in 1979, he appeared in Snoo Wilson's The Soul of the White Ant at the Soho Poly.

Callow appeared in Total Eclipse (1982), Lord Foppington in The Relapse (1983), and Faust (1988) at the Lyric Hammersmith, where he also directed The Infernal Machine (with Dame Maggie Smith) in 1986. In 1985, he appeared in The Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Bush Theatre in London. In the premiere of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (1979), he appeared in the 1983 BBC original cast radio production.

He later wrote about having "discovered Mozart" early: the operas, the symphonies, the concertos, and wind serenades were all part of my musical landscape when I was invited to perform in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus; perhaps this was one of the reasons I came to work." In As You Like It (1979) and Fulganzio in Galileo (1980), he appeared in the National Theatre as Orlando (1979).

In 1984, Schikaneder in Amadeus made his first film appearance. In A Room with a View the Reverend Mr. Beebe appeared as the Reverend Mr. Beebe the following year. In 1975, his first television appearance was in the Carry On Laughing episode "Orgy and Bess," but it was removed from the final print. As Chance in a Million, an eccentric individual to whom coincidences occurred daily, he appeared in several series of Channel 4 situation comedy Chance in a Million. Roles like this and his participation in Four Weddings and a Funeral brought him to a larger audience.

Callow also directed and wrote about his early life as an actor (1984): his Being An Actor (1984) was a critique of 'director dominated' theater, in addition to including autobiographical sections related to his early career as an actor. In 1992, he directed the play Shades by Sharman MacDonald and the musical My Fair Lady, which featured costumes created by Jasper Conran. He produced a stage adaptation of the classic French film Les Enfants du Paradis for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1995.

A Cos' fan tutte in Lucerne, Die Fledermaus for Scottish Opera in 1988, Il tritico for the Broomhill Trust, Kent, and Menotti's The Consul at the Grange Park Opera in 2003 were among Callow's opera performances. He also directed Carmen Jones at the Old Vic, London in 1991, with Wilhelmenia Fernandez in the lead role.

Love Is Where It Falls, an account of Peggy Ramsay (1908–91), a well-known British theatrical agent from the 1960s to the 1980s, is one of Callow's most popular books. In addition to writing extensively about Charles Dickens, whom he has appeared in several films including "My Life as a Fairytale" by Peter Ackroyd; and Christmas Carol: The Movie; and on television several times, including An Audience with Charles Dickens, a 2005 episode of BBC science fiction series Doctor Who's Doctor Who's "Unquiet Death." Dickens played him again in Doctor Who's 2011 season finale, but he reprised his role as Dickens.

Callow appeared in the British television drama series Little Napoleons in 1994, playing a scheming Conservative councillor in local government. Callow conducted Cantabile in three musical works (Commuting, The Waiter's Revenge, Ricercare No. 004) in 1996. Stephen Oliver, his friend, made 4) based on his friendship Stephen Oliver. Ricercare No. 1: Ricercare is no. Cantabile's four members were specially commissioned by Callow for Cantabile. In Shoebox Zoo, he portrayed a sly and traitorious Wolfgang. In 2004, he appeared on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain to support charitable causes. He wrote an article for the BBC1 programme This Week bemoaning the lack of characters in contemporary politics. In film (1997) and on stage (2005, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in the West End), he appeared as Count Fosco, the villain of Wilkie Collins' book The Woman in White.

Make the Yuletide Gay at the Barbican Centre in London in December 2004. He is now one of the Michael Chekhov Studio London patrons.

The London Oratory School Schola announced Callow as one of their new clients in July 2006. In November 2007, he threatened to resign from the office due to controversies surrounding the Terrence Higgins Trust (an AIDS charity for which Callow is also a patron). The Catholic choir's other patrons include Princess Michael of Kent and James MacMillan, the best Scottish composer. He reprised his role as Wolfgang in Shoebox Zoo, and acted as both the wild and action-seeking Hunter.

In the episode "The Secrets of Vesuvius," he played Pliny the Elder in CBBC's children's drama series, Roman Mysteries.

Callow appeared at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada from 11 July to August 2008, a tribute to William Shakespeare's sonnets There Reigns Love. He appeared at the Edinburgh Festival the same year as "Dr. Marigold" and "Mr. Gregor." Charles Dickens' Chops was adapted and directed by Patrick Garland, who repeated them at the Riverside Studios from December 2009 to January 2010, as well as on tour in 2011.

He appeared in Peter Shaffer's Equus' production in February 2008.

He appeared in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett between March and August 2009, with Ian McKellen as Estragon, Patrick Stewart as Vladimir, and Ronald Pickup as Lucky. The production toured Britain ahead of a run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.

Hyperion Records released "Mini Stories," a recording by the Caput Ensemble of Daniil Kharms' settings of Daniil Kharms' surreal poetry of Daniil Kharms, starring Callow as the narrator, in November 2009.

He appeared in a national tour of a one-man play Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford, written by Jonathan Bate, directed by Tom Cairns, and produced by the Ambassador Theatre Company from June to November 2010. Being Shakespeare was renamed for its West End debut at the Trafalgar Studios, where it opened on June 15th, 2011. In March 2012, it was revived at the same theater before a run in New York City and Chicago. It returned to the West End in March 2014, this time at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

In October 2014, Callow appeared in a comedy sketch produced for Channel 4's The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night to raise the profile of testicular cancer. He appeared in the Starz period television series Outlander for the same year.

Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton, Orson Welles, and Richard Wagner have all written biographies. In addition, he has written an anthology of Shakespeare passages, Shakespeare on Love, and appeared in Cambridge's Actors on Shakespeare.

He has contributed to Gramophone as a devotee of classical music.

Callow was the reader of The Twits and The Witches in the Puffin Roald Dahl Audio Books Collection (ISBN 978-0-140-92255-4), and he has produced audio versions of several abridged P.G. titles. The fictional character Jeeves appears in Wodehouse books, among other things. They include very good, Jeeves, and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Callow is the reader of William E. Wallace's Michelangelo, God's Architect, published by Princeton University Press. The audiobook of Robert Fagles' 2006 translation of Virgil's The Aeneid was narrated by Callow.

In 2016, Callow appeared in the three-part original Gold comedy The Rebel.

In Marvel's Hawkeye on Disney+, he plays Armand Duquesne.

Elisha Whitney appeared in 2022 on Cole Porter's Anything Goes, replacing Gary Wilmot as Elisha Whitney. The show will conclude with a run at the Barbican Centre before concluding with a tour of the United Kingdom.

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