Simon Callow — Actor (26)
Surprised by Oxford (2022) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
Surprised by Oxford
director: Ryan Whitaker actor: Phyllis Logan / Simon Callow
other title: 牛津的惊喜 / Coup de Foudre à Oxford
Brilliant but emotionally guarded Caro Drake arrives in Oxford with the singular goal of attaining her PhD - but through a turbulent friendship with a charming young man, Caro begins to open herself up to mystery, vulnerability, and love.
Étoile (2025) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Étoile
director: Amy Sherman-Palladino / Daniel Palladino actor: Luke Kirby / Charlotte Gainsbourg
other title: Estrella / Étoile (serie televisiva)
In an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions, two world-renowned ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their most talented stars.
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) [Movie] TMDB
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
director: Morgan Neville actor: Alan Cumming / Peter Bogdanovich
other title: Mi ameranno quando sarò morto / Ils m'aimeront quand je serai mort
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story (2012) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
director: James Strong actor: Oliver Lansley / Katherine Kelly
Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station, changing his name to Kenny Everett. Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and marries Lee Middleton, who not only sticks by him through his career lows but is sympathetic when, following a drugs over-dose, he admits to being gay. She even helps him find a boyfriend though, unlike his friend Freddie Mercury, he is reluctant to come out. Following their divorce Kenny is best man when Lee marries actor John Alkin and, in 1985, in typically flamboyant style comes out, owing to having not one but two 'husbands'. However, in 1989 he is diagnosed as HIV+ and, in 1995, a year after winning the prestigious Sony award, dies of AIDS aged fifty.
The Dead Room (2018) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Dead Room
director: Mark Gatiss actor: Simon Callow / Anjli Mohindra
Set and filmed at the iconic Maida Vale studios, The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter and national treasure Aubrey Judd. But times are changing. Tastes are shifting. There’s a new young producer. Whatever happened to the classic ghost stories? The good old days? Aubrey soon discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped…
Hampstead (2017) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hampstead
director: Joel Hopkins actor: Diane Keaton / Brendan Gleeson
other title: Appuntamento al parco / Mit hjem i Hampstead
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.