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Byline: By, Anna Willis A popular London hub for actors that provided training and networking opportunities had many of their programmes scrapped in a rebrand in 2019, leaving actors both [...]

Byline: Ethan Croft BROADWAY hit A Strange Loop landed in London last night actors Simon Callow and Toby Jones told us they didn't know what it was about before they [...]

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: By, Sarah Lumley BAFTA nominated actor Simon Callow has sat down for a spooky story time -- to warn Brits about the different types of scams and frauds they [...]

Byline: By, Neil Shaw Millions of Brits have fallen foul of, or been targeted by, fraudsters -with a quarter of those singled out while looking for love online. Phone call [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Joe Bromley ACTOR Simon Callow thinks Boris Johnson is an adrenaline junkie: 'The worst possible thing you can ever be as an actor or a performer.' Fresh off the [...]

Byline: By, Jasmine Allday Kate Garraway was called out by Adil Ray on Good Morning Britain today, as she made a name blunder live on air. The presenting duo were [...]

Byline: Robbie Smith ACTOR Simon Callow has revealed one of the darkest moments in his career. 'They chose Aidan Turner over me for Poldark. I never understood that. I really [...]

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: Ayesha Hazarika BRITISH theatre veterans Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Derek Jacobi and Simon Callow all attended the opening of La Cage aux Folles at Park theatre last night. Jacobi [...]

CALLOW REVISITS STAGE FAVOURITE ACTOR, writer and director Simon Callow is behind a new translation of comedy favourite La Cage aux Folles [The Play]. The story of a nightclub owner [...]

CALLOW REVISITS STAGE FAVOURITE ACTOR, writer and director Simon Callow is behind a new translation of comedy favourite La Cage aux Folles [The Play]. The story of a nightclub owner [...]

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: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent SIMON Callow plans to write a novel next year as 'my present to myself' to mark turning 70. The actor, whose new comedy thriller Blue [...]

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: Alistair Foster'showbiz news and gossip Rashid Razaq Culture Correspondent CALL THE MIDWIFE star Charlotte Ritchie says her new play is a chance to relive her university days but with [...]

Byline: Politics, party and pillow talk. Edited by Guy Pewsey ACTOR Simon Callow and novelist Sally Emerson were at 68 Dean Street last night celebrating the re-launch of Emerson's 1987 [...]

Byline: News and gossip from the world of entertainment by Alistair Foster Robert Dex Arts Correspondent 'RAZOR-SHARP' Lily Cole is making her West End debut alongside a cast of comics [...]

Celebrity Carry on Barging Channel 5, 8pm John Sergeant has barged around Britain for ITV, while Prunella Scales and Timothy West have travelled the UK, as well as a few [...]

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: FIONA MOUNTFORD A CHRISTMAS CAROL Arts Theatre, WC2 IT WOULDN'T be Christmas without a production of Dickens's glorious seasonal fable of hope and redemption, perpetually relevant and entertaining for [...]

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: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent VANESSA REDGRAVE will tread the boards in a special Shakespeare-inspired charity performance this weekend. The star, who recently played Queen Margaret in Richard III at [...]

Byline: Simon Callow 'We that are young,' says the Duke of Albany at the end of King Lear, 'shall never see so much, nor live so long.' But sometimes this [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Politics, party and pillow talk. Edited by Joy Lo Dico THE Bard took residence on Oxford Street last night, as 5 x 15 hosted a Shakespearean bibliotherapy at Selfridges. [...]

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: TOM CARSON Orson Welles. Volume 3: One-Man Band. By Simon Callow.Illustrated. 466 pages. Viking. $40. Citizen Kane. A Filmmaker's Journey. By Harlan Lebo. Illustrated. 362 pages As time marches [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Robert Dex Arts Correspondent FOUR Weddings and a Funeral star Simon Callow is planning a one-man show inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets. The poems, which refer to male and female [...]

Byline: Rachel Mainwaring Having spent the last 30 years researching the American actor, director, writer and producer, you'd be forgiven for thinking thespian Simon Callow might be a little tired [...]

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. [...]