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Simon Callow

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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.


— Simon Callow


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He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.


— Simon Callow


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He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.


— Simon Callow


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He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.


— Simon Callow


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I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.


— Simon Callow


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When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.


— Simon Callow


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Roles like this and his part in Four Weddings and a Funeral brought him a wider audience than his many critically acclaimed stage appearances. 4) composed by his friend Stephen Oliver. It was while watching actors rehearse that he realised he wanted to act.

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor musician writer and theatre director.

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