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Byline: Interview by Nick McGrath Actor, director and writer, 73 BEST of TIMES WORST of TIMES Born in Streatham, south London, Simon Callow spent three years of his childhood in [...]

Byline: Nick McGrath Born in Streatham, south London, Simon Callow spent three years of his childhood in Africa before returning to the capital to attend the London Oratory School. From [...]

Byline: Nick McGrath Born in Streatham, south London, Simon Callow spent three years of his childhood in Africa before returning to the capital to attend the London Oratory School. From [...]

The Amazing Mr Blunden SKY MAX, 7PM ? Mark Gatiss ensures none of us sleep tonight with another classic ghost story, this one for children. A mysterious old man (Simon [...]

Tamsin Greig is telling me about the first time the actor Simon Callow met the theatre agent Peggy Ramsay. 'He went to her flat and she was wearing this diaphanous [...]

Byline: Claire Allfree Tamsin Greig is telling me about the first time the actor Simon Callow met the theatre agent Peggy Ramsay. 'He went to her flat and she was [...]

Byline: Chris Harvey 'I'm sure Four Weddings and a Funeral wouldn't be made today, because society has changed,' says Simon Callow. I've just asked the prolific actor and author what [...]

Byline: Craig Simpson DOMESTIC violence in Oliver Twist was toned down in later drafts to leave 'more to the imagination', experts have revealed, as the original manuscript is published for [...]

Byline: Chris Harvey 'I'm sure Four Weddings and a Funeral wouldn't be made today, because society has changed,' says Simon Callow. I've just asked the prolific actor and author what [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Biopics have a great deal to answer for. Lawrence of Arabia, famously, presents an extremely dubious view of the history of the Middle East and a ludicrously [...]

The Dead Room BBC FOUR, 10.00PM ? Nothing says Christmas Eve like a good spinetingler; who better than Mark Gatiss to provide one? Simon Callow plays Aubrey Judd, a veteran [...]

Byline: Michael SimkinsThe recent controversy surrounding Bryan Cranston's casting as a billionaire quadriplegic in new film The Upside has shone a stark light on the shifting attitudes towards casting roles [...]

Byline: Anita Singh Arts And EntErtAinmEnt Editor ASK a child to name their favourite author, and Charles Dickens is unlikely to top the list. But Simon Callow, the actor, believes [...]

Byline: Anita Singh ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR ASK a child to name their favourite author, and Charles Dickens is unlikely to top the list. But Simon Callow, the actor, believes [...]

Byline: Tristram Fane Saunders FOR many, Simon Callow has become the face of Christmas - but while he was growing up he could not stand it, the actor has told [...]

SKY ARTS, 9.00PM ? Don't expect a relaxed instalment of this affable series, as Simon Callow, all sonorous bonhomie, and cultural historian Gus Casely-Hayford head to the races at Epsom [...]

Byline: BEING WAGNER by Simon Callow As this newspaper's opera critic, I am frequently solicited by nervous readers for advice on the vexed topic of Wagner. What is the best [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish A Christmas Carol Arts Theatre **** Christmas without Dickens is like the Alps without snow - unthinkable. With one novella - first published in 1843 - he [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish There's an arresting photograph in the stalls bar of Richmond Theatre showing Simon Callow preparing to go on stage as Captain Hook. This must have been for [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish, Theatre Critic Some 21 years ago, Simon Callow told me that Oscar Wilde was his 'absolute hero in every possible regard. The more I found out about [...]

This heart-stopping series follows the volunteers of the RNLI as The Rebel: Simon Callow they rescue those who suddenly find themselves in danger. This week, two students decide to jump [...]

Simon Callow, the actor, has married his partner on a Greek island. The Four Weddings and a Funeral actor, 67, tied the knot with Sebastian Fox, 33, a management consultant, [...]

Plum House Radio 4, 11.30am Simon Callow, Jane Horrocks and Miles Jupp star in Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna's new comedy. Plum House is a crumbling Lake District museum, dedicated [...]

Byline: Simon Callow 1 Engraving This is by my great-great-grandfather Henry Otto Fleiss, who came from Dusseldorf to England in the mid-1860s to become art master at Marlborough College. My [...]

On a school trip to see Die Walkure at Covent Garden, Simon Callow recalls he was so moved by Wagner's opera that hot, sticky tears trickled down his face and [...]

Byline: THE HARRY WALLOP INTERVIEW It's a bit of a mystery how Simon Callow, all bass-baritone bonhomie, goes from sipping Darjeeling in his private members' club to suggesting that blackingup [...]

Callow the clown Simon Callow, the actor, made a surprise appearance dressed as a clown (left, seated) at the 70th anniversary of the Clown Church Service at All Saints Church [...]

Simon Callow, the actor, made a surprise appearance dressed as a clown (left, seated) at the 70th anniversary of the Clown Church Service at All Saints Church in Haggerston, London. [...]

Byline: Tim Robey ORSON WELLES: ONE MAN BAND by Simon Callow 496pp, Jonathan Cape, PS25, ebook PS12.99 **** Simon Callow's epic Life of Orson Welles, the first quartercentury of which [...]

Byline: Simon Callow I was born in 1949, four years after the end of the Second World War, and was therefore raised by a family for whom it was a [...]

Byline: Gillian Reynolds The Essay: Being Orson RADIO 3, 10.45PM Simon Callow, actor and Orson Welles biographer, launches this week's five Essays on Welles (1915-1985), actor, director, radio producer and [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The theatre is bringing me into a much closer acquaintance with Jesus and his family. After Fiona Shaw brought his mother so movingly to life in The [...]

Byline: Laura Barnett SIMON CALLOW IN JUVENALIA ASSEMBLY HALL, EDINBURGH In 1976, a fresh–faced Simon Callow performed this monologue at London's Bush Theatre. It was, he recently recalled, a script [...]

Beloved star of stage and screen, Simon Callow reprises his critically acclaimed performance in Being Shakespeare, written by pre–eminent Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate and directed by Tom Cairns. This extraordinary [...]

Beloved star of stage and screen, Simon Callow reprises his critically acclaimed performance in Being Shakespeare, written by pre–eminent Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate and directed by Tom Cairns. This extraordinary [...]

Beloved star of stage and screen, Simon Callow reprises his critically acclaimed performance in Being Shakespeare, written by pre–eminent Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate and directed by Tom Cairns. This extraordinary [...]

Byline: Simon Callow It's Christmas 2013, and Dickens, who died in 1870, is, as usual at this time of year, everywhere; above all, of course, in his little book, A [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Celebrity casting has long been the bane of Sir Jonathan Miller's life - don't get him started on 'that man from Doctor Who' - but he now [...]

Byline: Rupert Christiansen INSIDE WAGNER'S HEAD LINBURY STUDIO THEATRE Although I greatly admire Simon Callow's occasional journalism, I am generally irritated by his fruity and orotund, actorly manner, as well [...]

Byline: Tim Walker The Queen's birthday honours coincided with Simon Callow's 64th birthday, but a knighthood is proving an elusive gift for the amiable actor. John Hannah, who played Callow's [...]

Byline: Dominic Cavendish THE MAN JESUS LYRIC THEATRE, BELFAST I was afraid Simon Callow might get crucified for undertaking a one-man show about Jesus in Belfast. Not literally, of course, [...]

Byline: Simon Callow I was, as they used to say, a cradle Catholic. Memories of childhood are indissolubly linked with the images of Jesus and his mother, from my very [...]

Byline: Tim Walker No actor has done more to bring the work of Charles Dickens alive on stage than Simon Callow. Still, he was not altogether surprised that an academic [...]

Byline: Jane Shilling A CHRISTMAS CAROL ARTS THEATRE The Platonic ideal of Christmas - holly-wreathed, turkey-haunted, lit by the plum pudding that is the incandescent pinnacle of an indigestible festive [...]

Byline: Richard Alleyne EVERY Shakespearean actor may dream of playing the Prince of Denmark, but for his latest role Simon Callow is making do with another Great Dane. The actor [...]

Byline: Charles Spencer A CHRISTMAS CAROL ARTS THEATRE WORDS even worse than 'Bah, humbug!' may have crossed my lips as I fought my way through the West End crowds – [...]

RAMAZ CHKHIKVADZE, who has died aged 83, caused a sensation when he appeared on stage as Richard III at the 1979 Edinburgh Festival in a production of Shakespeare's play by [...]

Byline: Simon Callow 1 SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL, London Very few people know that Shakespeare paid for his brother Edmund, who was an apprentice in the Lord Chamberlain's Men, to be buried [...]

Byline: Charles Spencer DR MARIGOLD AND MR CHOPS YVONNE ARNAUD, GUILDFORD, AND TOURING WHAT a glorious evening this proves. Simon Callow can sometimes seem an excessively stagey actor, with his [...]

Byline: Charles Spencer DR MARIGOLD AND MR CHOPS YVONNE ARNAUD, GUILDFORD, AND TOURING WHAT a glorious evening this proves. Simon Callow can sometimes seem an excessively stagey actor, with his [...]