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Simon Callow is an English actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his roles in the films Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, and Amadeus. He has also appeared in numerous stage productions, including the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
Simon has written acclaimed biographies of Charles Laughton and Orson Welles. He is currently at work on the third volume of his life of Welles. He followed up Being an Actor with Shooting the Actor, which tackles the subject of acting for the screen. My Life in Pieces, an alternative journalistic autobiography, incorporates some of his widely ...
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor and author. Callow was born in Streatham, London, to Yvonne Mary Guise and Neil Francis Callow. He attended the London Oratory School. Callow is one of the most prominent gay actors in Britain. For a while Callow lived with director Daniel Kramer.
Nov 27, 2007 · — Variety The first volume of Simon Callow's magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a "splendidly entertaining, definitive work" by Entertainment Weekly. Now, this eagerly anticipated second volume examines the years following Citizen Kane up to the time of Macbeth , in which Welles's Hollywood film career unraveled.
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Apr 8, 2016 · Simon Callow has become the preeminent chronicler of the life and times of Orson Welles. Over three sprawling biographies, Callow has traced Welles’ rise, fall, and years in the Hollywood ...
Jun 10, 2017 · Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will by Simon Callow (Harper Collins, £14.99). To order a copy for £12.74, go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online ...
Aug 17, 2006 · Paperback. $17.00 5 Used from $10.93 4 New from $15.98. A second volume in the biographical series about the legendary director traces the years after Citizen Kane to offer insight into Welles's increasing inability to function within the movie industry's structure, tracing his contributions to such films as The Magnificent Ambersons and The ...
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