Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, writer and theatre director.
Callow was born in Streatham, London, UK, to Yvonne Mary Guise, a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. He attended the London Oratory School and then went on to study at the Queen's University of Belfast before giving up his degree course to go into acting at Drama Centre London.
Callow made his stage debut in 1973 with The Thrie Est...
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Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, writer and theatre director.
Callow was born in Streatham, London, UK, to Yvonne Mary Guise, a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. He attended the London Oratory School and then went on to study at the Queen's University of Belfast before giving up his degree course to go into acting at Drama Centre London.
Callow made his stage debut in 1973 with The Thrie Estates, Assembly Hall Theatre, Edinburgh. In the early 1970s he joined the Gay Sweatshop theatre company and performed in Martin Sherman's critically acclaimed Passing By. In 1977 he took various parts in the Joint Stock Theatre Company's production of Epsom Downs and in 1979 he starred in Snoo Wilson's The Soul of the White Ant at the Soho Poly.
He made his first film appearance in Amadeus in 1984 (having played Mozart in the original stage production at the Royal National Theatre). His first television role was in Carry On Laughing episode ...
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