Simon Callow

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.

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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).

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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.

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Callow, who is openly gay, also wrote about a former relationship in his partial autobiography, Love Is Where It Falls (1998). 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.

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In 1999, he was awarded the CBE for his services to acting.

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His first TV role was in Carry On Laughing episode Orgy and Bess, in 1975, but it was apparently cut from the final print.

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He appeared with Saeed Jaffrey in 1994 British television series Little Napoleons.

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In 2004, he appeared on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain for charity causes.

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