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Biography

Callow studied at Queen's University, Belfast before giving up his degree course to go into acting at the Drama Centre, London. 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). Queens University, Belfast - or officially The Queens University of Belfast (QUB; in Irish, Ollscoil na Banríona, Béal Feirste) - is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... Amadeus is the title of both a stage play and a film written in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, both loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... W. A. Mozart, 1790, portrait by Johann Georg Edlinger, see also: face only Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly popular composers of European classical music. ... The Royal National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain is a building and theatre company on Londons South Bank, located immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. ...

By his thirties, Callow was playing character and often comic parts. He starred in several series of the Channel 4 situation comedy, 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. Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ... Chance in a Million was a British sitcom broadcast in 1984 and 1986 with Simon Callow as the hapless Tom Chance, and Brenda Blethyn as his long-suffering girlfriend Alison Little. ... Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. ...

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, The Mystery of Charles Dickens and 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. Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new instalment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... The Unquiet Dead is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 9, 2005. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor. It is also the title of a 1996 television movie featuring the same character. ...

Callow is also one of the most prominent openly gay actors in Britain.

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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. The Carry On films were a long-running series of British popular low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

He appeared with Saeed Jaffrey in 1994 British television series Little Napoleons. Saeed Jaffrey (born 8 January 1929) is an Indian actor. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Little Napoleons was a 1994 British television serial starring Saeed Jaffrey, Norman Beaton, Simon Callow and Lesley Manville as four politicians involved in local council elections. ...

In 2004, he appeared on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain for charity causes. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ... Little Britain is a BBC radio and television sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ...

He has starred as Count Fosco, the villain of Wilkie Collins's novel The Woman in White, in film (1997) and on stage (2005, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in West End). Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. ... The Woman in White is a novel written by Wilkie Collins and published in 1860. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. ...

Selected filmography

Cinema

• Amadeus (1984)
• A Room with a View (1985)
• Maurice (1987)
• Postcards from the Edge (1990)
• Howards End (1992) (uncredited)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
• Street Fighter (1994)
• Jefferson in Paris (1995)
• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
• James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• Notting Hill (1999) (uncredited)
• Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) (voice)
• No Man's Land (2001)
• Thunderpants (2002)
• Bright Young Things (2003)
• The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
• Flushed Away (2006) (voice)

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Television

• Chance in a Million (1984)
• Little Napoleons (1994)
• Angels in America (2003)
• Shoebox Zoo (2004) (voice)

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External link

• Simon Callow at the Internet Movie Database