Simon Callow - biography

“He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks.  It’s just such a curious thing.”

“When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.”

“I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.”

“He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him.  It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.”

“Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work.  There’s huge, visionary poetry in it.”

“He always describes his characters’ voices and their physique so brilliantly.  As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures.  They’re grotesques really.”

Simon Callow has appeared in the following films:
Amadeus (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
The Good Father (1985)
Maurice (1987)
Manifesto (1988)
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Howards End (1992)
Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1993)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Street Fighter (1994)
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
England, My England (1995)
Victory (1995)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Scarlet Tunic (1998)
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Notting Hill (1999)
Junk (1999)
Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)
No Man’s Land (2001)
Thunderpants (2002)
Bright Young Things (2003)
George and the Dragon (2004)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Rag Tale (2005)
Ripley Under Ground (2005)
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005)
Bob the Butler (2005)
The Best Man (2005)
Arn – Tempelriddaren (2007)
Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
Surveillance (2007)
Chemical Wedding (2008)
The Mr. Men Movie (2010)
Late Bloomers (2011)
Love’s Kitchen (2011)
Acts of Godfrey (2012)
Miss in Her Teens (2012)