Simon Callow: movies and TV shows
Simon Callow has 194 credits in the archive: 127 films and 67 TV series, from 1967 to 2026. Highest rated: Outlander (8.2/10).
Career timeline
1967 – 2026 · busiest year: 2007 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Man with the Plan | William Beveridge | Film | — | 77 |
| 2026 | Eternal Return | Malcolm | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 2025 | Étoile | Crispin Shamblee | TV | 7.1 | 76 |
| 2025 | Amadeus: The Making of a Masterpiece | Himself | Film | — | 76 |
| 2024 | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 | Cavendish | Film | 5.8 | 75 |
| 2024 | Merchant Ivory | Self | Film | 7.7 | 75 |
| 2024 | The Boy That Never Was | Cozimo | TV | 6.1 | 75 |
| 2024 | Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration | Self | Film | 4.5 | 75 |
| 2024 | It's Christmas! | Samuel | Film | 5.0 | 75 |
| 2024 | Aguska | Patrick Carter | Film | — | 75 |
| 2024 | Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self | Film | 6.0 | 75 |
| 2023 | Surprised by Oxford | Dr. Sterling | Film | 6.1 | 74 |
| 2023 | Doctor Jekyll | Journalist | Film | 4.6 | 74 |
| 2023 | Dodger Special: Coronation | Archbishop of Canterbury | Film | 10.0 | 74 |
| 2023 | Murder Ballads: How to Make It in Rock 'n' Roll | Richard O'Keefe | Film | — | 74 |
| 2022 | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye | Film | 7.2 | 73 | |
| 2022 | The Fringe, Fame and Me | Self | Film | — | 73 |
| 2022 | Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | — | 73 |
| 2022 | Judi Dench: Our National Treasure | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 73 |
| 2022 | American: An Odyssey to 1947 | Self | Film | — | 73 |
| 2022 | The Pay Day | Gates | Film | 4.2 | 73 |
| 2022 | The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration | Self | Film | 8.0 | 73 |
| 2021 | Hawkeye | Armand Duquesne III | TV | 7.8 | 72 |
| 2021 | The Cleaner | Mr. Abahassine | TV | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Mr. Blunden | Film | 6.3 | 72 |
| 2021 | Classical Destinations: The Great Composers | narrator | TV | — | 72 |
| 2021 | Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius | Alexander Pope | Film | — | 72 |
| 2020 | Nutcracker Delights: English National Ballet | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 71 |
| 2019 | The Witcher | Codringher | TV | 7.9 | 70 |
| 2018 | Blue Iguana | Uncle Martin | Film | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Self | Film | 7.1 | 69 |
| 2018 | The Dead Room | Aubrey Judd | Film | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2018 | A Christmas Carol | Film | 7.4 | 69 | |
| 2018 | A Christmas Carol | Film | 7.4 | 69 | |
| 2018 | Secrets of Britain's Great Cathedrals | TV | — | 69 | |
| 2017 | Victoria & Abdul | Mr. Puccini | Film | 6.9 | 68 |
| 2017 | Hampstead | Judge | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Leech | Film | 6.8 | 68 |
| 2017 | Viceroy's House | Cyril Radcliffe | Film | 6.6 | 68 |
| 2017 | Tate Britain's Great Art Walks | Self | TV | — | 68 |
| 2017 | Born Silly | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 68 |
| 2017 | Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty | Film | 4.7 | 68 | |
| 2017 | 50 Years Legal | Self | Film | 6.0 | 68 |
| 2016 | Golden Years | Royston | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 2016 | There's Something About Romcoms | Self | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 2016 | Mindhorn | Himself | Film | 6.1 | 67 |
| 2016 | The Rebel | Henry Palmer | TV | 7.2 | 67 |
| 2015 | Galavant | Edwin the Magnificent | TV | 7.3 | 66 |
| 2015 | Creditors | Film | 4.4 | 66 | |
| 2014 | Outlander | Duke of Sandringham | TV | 8.2 | 65 |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Dick | TV | 8.1 | 65 |
| 2014 | Miss in Her Teens | The Author | Film | 3.0 | 65 |
| 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actor and Welles' Biographer | Film | 6.5 | 65 |
| 2014 | Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 65 |
| 2014 | The First Silent Night: The Christmas Carol That United the World | Self - Host - Narrator | Film | — | 65 |
| 2013 | Plebs | TV | 7.3 | 64 | |
| 2013 | A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley | Self | TV | 7.6 | 64 |
| 2013 | The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 | Self | Film | — | 64 |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents | Dudley | TV | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2012 | Them From That Thing | Various | TV | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2012 | Shakespeare's Sonnets | Film | — | 63 | |
| 2012 | Acts of Godfrey | Godfrey | Film | — | 63 |
| 2012 | Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story | Dickie Attenborough | Film | 4.6 | 63 |
| 2012 | Being Shakespeare | Film | — | 63 | |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise | Larry South | TV | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2011 | Love's Kitchen | Guy Witherspoon | Film | 5.3 | 62 |
| 2011 | Ice | Prime Minister | Film | 5.5 | 62 |
| 2011 | Art of Freedom | Self | Film | 9.2 | 62 |
| 2011 | Late Bloomers | Richard | Film | 5.2 | 62 |
| 2011 | Lily Allen: From Riches to Rags | Narrator | TV | 8.0 | 62 |
| 2011 | Ice | Prime Minister | TV | 8.0 | 62 |
| 2011 | The British Guide to Showing Off | Self | Film | 6.6 | 62 |
| 2011 | Jamie's Dream School | Himself | TV | — | 62 |
| 2010 | Arn: The Knight Templar | Fader Henry | TV | 7.6 | 61 |
| 2010 | Save Our Bacon | The Swinesbury's Boss (voice) | Film | — | 61 |
| 2010 | The Unforgettable Harry Secombe | Self | Film | 8.5 | 61 |
| 2009 | Orson Welles Over Europe | Himself - Presenter | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 2009 | Orson Welles Over Europe | Film | 7.0 | 60 | |
| 2009 | Theatreland | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 2009 | The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words | Readings (voice) | TV | — | 60 |
| 2008 | Q&A | Self - Panellist | TV | 3.2 | 59 |
| 2008 | Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait | Self | Film | 7.7 | 59 |
| 2008 | Chemical Wedding | Haddo | Film | 4.2 | 59 |
| 2007 | Lewis | Vernon Oxe | TV | 7.6 | 58 |
| 2007 | The Sarah Jane Adventures | Tree Blathereen (voice) | TV | 7.1 | 58 |
| 2007 | The Company | MI6 liaison officer Elihu | TV | 7.2 | 58 |
| 2007 | Roman Mysteries | Pliny | TV | 5.0 | 58 |
| 2007 | Arn: The Knight Templar | Father Henry | Film | 6.3 | 58 |
| 2007 | British Film Forever | TV | 5.5 | 58 | |
| 2007 | How Gay Sex Changed the World | Self | Film | 4.0 | 58 |
| 2007 | Derren Brown: Trick or Treat | Himself | TV | 8.1 | 58 |
| 2007 | Surveillance 24/7 | St John | Film | 3.9 | 58 |
| 2006 | Great British Menu | Self - Guest Judge | TV | 6.5 | 57 |
| 2006 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | George Russell | TV | 3.7 | 57 |
| 2006 | The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | George Russell | Film | 5.1 | 57 |
| 2006 | Reviving Harry Lime | Himself | Film | — | 57 |
| 2006 | The Madness of Boy George | Narrator (voice) | Film | 2.7 | 57 |
| 2006 | Phantom of the Opera: Behind the Mask | Self | Film | 5.6 | 57 |
| 2006 | Men of Mystery | Himself | Film | — | 57 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Charles Dickens | TV | 7.6 | 56 |
| 2005 | Rag Tale | Cormac Rourke | Film | 3.6 | 56 |
| 2005 | The Civilization of Maxwell Bright | Mr. Wroth | Film | 4.5 | 56 |
| 2005 | Ripley Under Ground | Dean Bentliffe | Film | 5.6 | 56 |
| 2005 | The Best Man | Big-Time Publisher | Film | 5.4 | 56 |
| 2005 | Bob the Butler | Mr. Butler | Film | 5.6 | 56 |
| 2005 | Revisiting Brideshead | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 2005 | A Tribute To Ismail Merchant | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 56 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Colonel Melchett | TV | 7.8 | 55 |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | Andre | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2004 | Shoebox Zoo | Wolfgang the Wolf (voice) / Hunter the Horse (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 55 |
| 2004 | George and the Dragon | King Edgar | Film | 5.5 | 55 |
| 2003 | Angels in America | Prior 2 | TV | 7.6 | 54 |
| 2003 | Angels in America | Prior Walter Ancestor #2 (uncredited) | TV | 7.6 | 54 |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | King of Anatolia | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 2003 | Thank You, Doctor Rey | Bob | Film | 5.5 | 54 |
| 2002 | Thunderpants | Sir John Osgood | Film | 3.4 | 53 |
| 2002 | Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale | Charles Dickens | TV | 7.1 | 53 |
| 2002 | Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening | Film | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 2002 | The Mystery of Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens | Film | 8.5 | 53 |
| 2002 | Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens | Galileo | Film | — | 53 |
| 2001 | Don't Eat the Neighbours | TV | 6.3 | 52 | |
| 2001 | No Man's Land | Colonel Soft | Film | 7.5 | 52 |
| 2001 | Christmas Carol: The Movie | Charles Dickens / Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) | Film | 5.2 | 52 |
| 2000 | Animated Epics: Don Quixote | Don Quixote | Film | — | 51 |
| 2000 | Deadly Appearances | Rick Spencer | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 2000 | Around The World In 80 Days | Phileas Fogg (voice) | Film | — | 51 |
| 1999 | Loose Women | Self | TV | 3.4 | 50 |
| 1999 | Notting Hill | Simon Callow (uncredited) | Film | 7.3 | 50 |
| 1998 | Parkinson | Self | TV | — | 49 |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Tilney | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways | Keith | Film | 6.1 | 49 |
| 1998 | The Scarlet Tunic | Captain Fairfax | Film | 5.1 | 49 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Dr. Wellow | TV | 7.5 | 48 |
| 1997 | Trial & Retribution | Rupert Halliday | TV | 6.8 | 48 |
| 1997 | The Woman In White | Count Fosco | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 1997 | The Woman In White | Count Fosco | TV | — | 48 |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Grasshopper (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 47 |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Meneptah (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1996 | Dennis the Menace and Gnasher | Hugo Trenchfoot (voice) | TV | 6.3 | 47 |
| 1996 | Moses | Meneptah II (voice) | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1996 | An Audience with Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens | Film | 4.0 | 47 |
| 1996 | Victory | Zangiacomo | Film | 5.2 | 47 |
| 1995 | Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls | Vincent Cadby | Film | 6.3 | 46 |
| 1995 | El pasajero clandestino | Major Owens | Film | 5.0 | 46 |
| 1995 | Jefferson in Paris | Richard Cosway | Film | 5.1 | 46 |
| 1995 | England, My England | Charles II | Film | 6.5 | 46 |
| 1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Gareth | Film | 6.8 | 45 |
| 1994 | Street Fighter | A. N. Official | Film | 4.7 | 45 |
| 1994 | Little Napoleons | Edward Feathers | TV | 9.0 | 45 |
| 1993 | Femme Fatale | Vicar Ronnie | Film | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1993 | Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Eddie Cherdowski | Film | 6.3 | 44 |
| 1993 | Camp Christmas | Film | 2.7 | 44 | |
| 1992 | Howards End | Music and Meaning Lecturer (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1991 | Performance | John Mortimer | TV | 6.3 | 42 |
| 1991 | The Crucifer of Blood | Inspector Lestrade | Film | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1991 | The Trials of Oz | John Mortimer | Film | 6.3 | 42 |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Film | 5.8 | 42 | |
| 1990 | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | Dr. Alex Sauer | Film | 6.1 | 41 |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Simon Asquith | Film | 6.6 | 41 |
| 1990 | Old Flames | Nathanial Quass | Film | — | 41 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Dr. Lutz | TV | 8.2 | 40 |
| 1989 | Revolutionary Witness | Franciscus Palloy | Film | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1988 | Manifesto | Police Chief Hunt | Film | 4.0 | 39 |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Theodore Kemp | TV | 7.9 | 38 |
| 1987 | Maurice | Mr. Ducie | Film | 7.6 | 38 |
| 1987 | Acting | TV | — | 38 | |
| 1987 | Cariani and the Courtesans | Raimondi | Film | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1987 | The Reluctant Dragon | Dragon (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1986 | ScreenPlay | Raimondi | TV | 6.0 | 37 |
| 1986 | Split Screen | TV | — | 37 | |
| 1986 | A Room with a View | The Reverend Mr. Beebe | Film | 6.9 | 37 |
| 1986 | David Copperfield | Wilkins Micawber | TV | 5.2 | 37 |
| 1986 | Dead Head | Hugo Silver | TV | 5.8 | 37 |
| 1986 | The Christmas Tree | Jacob Weinberg | Film | 9.0 | 37 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Nathanial Quass | TV | 7.1 | 36 |
| 1985 | Honour, Profit & Pleasure | George Frideric Handel | Film | 10.0 | 36 |
| 1985 | The Good Father | Mark Varda | Film | 5.6 | 36 |
| 1984 | Amadeus | Emanuel Schikaneder | Film | 8.0 | 35 |
| 1984 | Chance in a Million | Tom Chance | TV | 7.1 | 35 |
| 1984 | Saturday Review | Self | TV | — | 35 |
| 1984 | Royal Variety Performance 1984 | Film | — | 35 | |
| 1981 | The Man of Destiny | Napoleon | Film | — | 32 |
| 1979 | Question Time | Himself - Panellist | TV | 5.9 | 30 |
| 1979 | Instant Enlightenment Including VAT | Maximillian | Film | 4.5 | 30 |
| 1977 | The Sunday Drama | The Prince | TV | 5.0 | 28 |
| 1976 | Victorian Scandals | Duval | TV | 10.0 | 27 |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Detective Sergeant | TV | 8.1 | 26 |
| 1975 | Carry On Laughing | Crew Member | TV | 5.7 | 26 |
| 1974 | NOVA | Galileo | TV | 7.0 | 25 |
| 1971 | A Ghost Story for Christmas | Aubrey Judd | TV | 7.4 | 22 |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Self | TV | 7.2 | 18 |
| The Reformation of Sister Edith | Abbot Pentecost | Film | — | — | |
| About A Bell | Film | — | — | ||
| The Northumbria Mysteries | David | TV | — | — |