Biographical note for Simon Callow in programme book for Faust at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 2 July 1988. In 1985, he played Molina in The Kiss of the Spiderwoman at the Bush Theatre, London. BROADWAY SHOWS SUSPENDED THROUGH MAY 30th. He reprised his role as Wolfgang in Shoebox Zoo and voice-acted the wild and action-seeking Hunter as well.[when?]. The Film Production section of Variety, Oct. 20, 1982, announced the movie "Gossip" began filming Oct 25, 1982, in London with director Don Boyd, with actors Anne-Louise Lambert, Anthony Higgins, Leif Garrett, Gary Oldman, Simon Callow. | The Harry Potter at Home project is an initiative developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first installment of the final Harry Potter film will be served in theaters this Friday, stuffed for the holidays with our favourite [sic] character actors. His first television role was in the Carry On Laughing episode "Orgy and Bess" in 1975, but it was cut from the final print. [23] In 1999, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to acting. This week, chapter six is being split between Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Olivier winner and Tony nominee Jamie Parker and current stars James Snyder, Paul Thornley, Diane Davis, Brady Dalton Richards, James Romney, Nadia Brown and more. He voice-acted the sly and traitorous Wolfgang in Shoebox Zoo. Or, at least, iconic to Harry Potter fans. Allison, John. [8], Callow appeared as Verlaine in Total Eclipse (1982), Lord Foppington in The Relapse (1983) and the title role in Faust (1988) at the Lyric Hammersmith, where he also directed The Infernal Machine (with Maggie Smith) in 1986. London, England, UK, 16 October 2020 Professor Amycus Carrow was a Dark Wizard, brother of Alecto Carrow and a Death Eater. Rupert Grint has appeared in a handful of movies outside of "Harry Potter. [11] In 1995, he directed a stage version of the classic French film Les Enfants du Paradis for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). [citation needed][4], Callow's immersion in the theatre began after he wrote a fan letter to Sir Laurence Olivier, the Artistic Director of the National Theatre, and received a response suggesting he join their box office staff. When ... [on Alec Guinness] He wrote to tell me he had just seen A Passage to India (1984), and as the lights had come up he had vomited in shame at his own performance as Professor Godbole. The same year he played the recurring role of the fictional Duke of Sandringham in the Starz period TV series, Outlander.[20]. 4 was commissioned by Callow especially for Cantabile. Callow starred in the three-part original Gold comedy The Rebel in 2016.[22]. Since filming the first Harry Potter film, the 13-year-old has gone onto to star with Simon Callow and Stephen Fry as a young madcap professor in Peter Howitt's "Thunderpants." He is currently one of the patrons of the Michael Chekhov Studio London. Harry Potter stars Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) were joined by acclaimed actor Simon Callow to read chapter five. Simon Phillip Hugh Callow From 11 July to 3 August 2008, Callow appeared at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada in There Reigns Love, a performance of the sonnets of William Shakespeare. ): A Day-to-Day Schedule. : King's Cross premises a far cry from Soho 'hell', but some students fear college will have lost its charm, "Sexual healing: From The Boys in the Band to Brokeback Mountain, gay roles in cinema have come a long way from their tortured beginnings", "Doctor Who: Series 6 – 13. [18], From June to November 2010, he appeared in a national tour of a new one-man play, Shakespeare: the Man from Stratford, written by Jonathan Bate, directed by Tom Cairns and produced by the Ambassador Theatre Group. Callow also directed plays and wrote: his Being An Actor (1984) was a critique of 'director dominated' theatre, in addition to containing autobiographical sections relating to his early career as an actor. [9] The Harry Potter at Home project is an initiative developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Simon Callow. [5], Callow made his stage debut in 1973, appearing in The Thrie Estates at the Assembly Rooms Theatre, Edinburgh. Callow is the reader of the audio book edition of William E. Wallace’s Michelangelo, God’s Architect, published by Princeton University Press. 4) composed by his friend Stephen Oliver. II trittico and The Reluctant Highwayman, The Broomhill Trust. 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Callow appeared with Saeed Jaffrey in the 1994 British television drama series Little Napoleons, playing a scheming Conservative councillor in local government. In December 2004, he hosted the London Gay Men's Chorus Christmas Show, Make the Yuletide Gay at the Barbican Centre in London. Callow, Simon (2000), The Night of the Hunter, BFI film classics., BFI Publishing, ISBN 978-0-85170-822-5, OCLC 59582358; Callow, Simon (2003), Dickens' Christmas: A Victorian Celebration, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 978-0-8109-4534-0, OCLC 51942509; Callow, Simon (2003), Shooting the Actor, Picador, ISBN 978-0-312-42244-8, OCLC 52178208 Wodehouse books that feature, among others, the fictional character Jeeves. Soundtrack | [3] 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. June 13, Writer. | What To Do (Without Broadway! From Daniel Radcliffe himself to Stephen Fry, the Harry Potter at Home series has been filled with some of our favorite celebrities taking to reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s StoneFor chapter five, “Diagon Alley”,. They did not search for Lord Voldemort after his first downfall but were forgiven after Voldemort's return in 1995 and joined the Death Eater ranks in the Second Wizarding War. Stephen Fry, Rufus Wainwright Warn U.K. Risks Becoming ‘Cultural Wasteland’ Without Government Aid, 27 April 2020 Among opera productions directed by Callow are a Così fan tutte in Lucerne, Die Fledermaus for Scottish Opera in 1988,[12] Il tritico for the Broomhill Trust, Kent in August 1995,[13] Menotti's The Consul at Holland Park Opera, London in 1999 and Le roi malgré lui by Chabrier at Grange Park Opera in 2003. He made his first film appearance in 1984 as Schikaneder in Amadeus. 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In 2007, he portrayed the role of Pliny the Elder in CBBC's children's drama series, Roman Mysteries in the episodes The Secrets of Vesuvius. Daniel Radcliffe enchanted fans with chapter one. I don't think any actor had done so voluntarily and I think it helped to change the culture. In March 2014, it returned to the West End, this time at the Harold Pinter Theatre. The Hollywood Reporter 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 the West End). In 2004, he appeared on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain for charity causes. [19], In October 2014, Callow appeared in a comedy sketch made for Channel 4's The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night to raise awareness of testicular cancer. they made sure to get some of the most iconic out there to join in. Callow has also written biographies of Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton and Orson Welles. to Rebecca take a look back at the career of Armie Hammer on and off the screen. From "Veronica Mars" and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Callow was born in Streatham, London, the son of Yvonne Mary (née Guise), a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman. [25][26], I'm not really an activist, although I am aware that there are some political acts one can do that actually make a difference and I think my coming out as a gay man was probably one of the most valuable things I've done in my life.