{"id":138554,"date":"2019-11-30T06:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-7728727\/Actor-author-Simon-Callow-70-shares-stories-favourite-snaps.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ito=1490&amp;ns_campaign=1490"},"modified":"2019-11-30T06:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T03:48:49","slug":"actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/so\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor and author Simon Callow, 70, shares the stories behind his favourite snaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Celebrities share the stories behind their favourite photographs. This week it&#8217;s actor and author Simon Callow, 70.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f71967401d0fe9a5\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-1.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Actor and author Simon Callow, 70,&nbsp;reveals the stories behind a selection of his favourite photographs\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f71967401d0fe9a5\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-1.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Actor and author Simon Callow, 70,&nbsp;reveals the stories behind a selection of his favourite photographs\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Actor and author Simon Callow, 70,&nbsp;reveals the stories behind a selection of his favourite photographs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-15dde09b691d5c8f\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-2.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1951: Here I am aged two being introduced to Father Christmas at Selfridges \u2013 I look a bit anxious. My mother Yvonne, a secretary, and father Neil, a businessman, split up when I was small. My mother heroically ensured I got the best possible education within our slender means \u2013 my father invariably defaulted on his alimony. My energy was almost uncontrollable and my mercurial moods were tough for her.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-15dde09b691d5c8f\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-2.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1951: Here I am aged two being introduced to Father Christmas at Selfridges \u2013 I look a bit anxious. My mother Yvonne, a secretary, and father Neil, a businessman, split up when I was small. My mother heroically ensured I got the best possible education within our slender means \u2013 my father invariably defaulted on his alimony. My energy was almost uncontrollable and my mercurial moods were tough for her.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">1951: Here I am aged two being introduced to Father Christmas at Selfridges \u2013 I look a bit anxious. My mother Yvonne, a secretary, and father Neil, a businessman, split up when I was small. My mother heroically ensured I got the best possible education within our slender means \u2013 my father invariably defaulted on his alimony. My energy was almost uncontrollable and my mercurial moods were tough for her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-48ad2c99f24d67cc\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-3.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1968: This picture was taken when I was 19 and briefly at university before drama school. My odd beard looks stuck on. My father is here with his French mother Toto (far right) and her sister Titi. Toto moved to England at 18 but retained an Inspector Clouseau accent. Their mother lived here for 30 years but never spoke a word of English. They were very forceful women.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-48ad2c99f24d67cc\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-3.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1968: This picture was taken when I was 19 and briefly at university before drama school. My odd beard looks stuck on. My father is here with his French mother Toto (far right) and her sister Titi. Toto moved to England at 18 but retained an Inspector Clouseau accent. Their mother lived here for 30 years but never spoke a word of English. They were very forceful women.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">1968: This picture was taken when I was 19 and briefly at university before drama school. My odd beard looks stuck on. My father is here with his French mother Toto (far right) and her sister Titi. Toto moved to England at 18 but retained an Inspector Clouseau accent. Their mother lived here for 30 years but never spoke a word of English. They were very forceful women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9d36ee428483d31d\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-4.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1973: I\u2019m playing Bob Cratchit here in A Christmas Carol at Lincoln\u2019s Theatre Royal. It\u2019s important because, after Peter Pan, it was the first play I ever saw. As a young boy it scared the hell out of me and I was put off Dickens for a long time. Dickens has since become an obsession, on stage and in writing, but it wasn\u2019t until four decades after this photograph was taken that I did my one-man version of A Christmas Carol, which I think is the best thing I\u2019ve ever done. We made a film of it for the BBC of which I\u2019m inordinately proud.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9d36ee428483d31d\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-4.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1973: I\u2019m playing Bob Cratchit here in A Christmas Carol at Lincoln\u2019s Theatre Royal. It\u2019s important because, after Peter Pan, it was the first play I ever saw. As a young boy it scared the hell out of me and I was put off Dickens for a long time. Dickens has since become an obsession, on stage and in writing, but it wasn\u2019t until four decades after this photograph was taken that I did my one-man version of A Christmas Carol, which I think is the best thing I\u2019ve ever done. We made a film of it for the BBC of which I\u2019m inordinately proud.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">1973: I&#8217;m playing Bob Cratchit here in A Christmas Carol at Lincoln&#8217;s Theatre Royal. It&#8217;s important because, after Peter Pan, it was the first play I ever saw. As a young boy it scared the hell out of me and I was put off Dickens for a long time. Dickens has since become an obsession, on stage and in writing, but it wasn&#8217;t until four decades after this photograph was taken that I did my one-man version of A Christmas Carol, which I think is the best thing I&#8217;ve ever done. We made a film of it for the BBC of which I&#8217;m inordinately proud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8e92372f1d177ced\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-5.jpg\" height=\"854\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1980: I had many encounters with Princess Margaret, a very witty, sharp, bossy, sexy, outspoken woman of the kind my mother would like to have been. This was at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards where I was nominated as Best Supporting Actor. The editor said, \u2018This is one of our most promising young actors, Ma\u2019am.\u2019 Princess Margaret replied, \u2018What are you promising for?\u2019 I told her I was in the play Amadeus and she said, \u2018Oh, I\u2019ve heard it\u2019s terrible. I won\u2019t be coming to see it.\u2019\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8e92372f1d177ced\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-5.jpg\" height=\"854\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1980: I had many encounters with Princess Margaret, a very witty, sharp, bossy, sexy, outspoken woman of the kind my mother would like to have been. This was at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards where I was nominated as Best Supporting Actor. The editor said, \u2018This is one of our most promising young actors, Ma\u2019am.\u2019 Princess Margaret replied, \u2018What are you promising for?\u2019 I told her I was in the play Amadeus and she said, \u2018Oh, I\u2019ve heard it\u2019s terrible. I won\u2019t be coming to see it.\u2019\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">1980: I had many encounters with Princess Margaret, a very witty, sharp, bossy, sexy, outspoken woman of the kind my mother would like to have been. This was at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards where I was nominated as Best Supporting Actor. The editor said, &#8216;This is one of our most promising young actors, Ma&#8217;am.&#8217; Princess Margaret replied, &#8216;What are you promising for?&#8217; I told her I was in the play Amadeus and she said, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;ve heard it&#8217;s terrible. I won&#8217;t be coming to see it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b03036f463f13fd7\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-6.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1994: Here I am in Four Weddings And A Funeral. I knew Hugh Grant, James Fleet and Charlotte Coleman a bit, but didn\u2019t know John Hannah or Andie MacDowell, yet within seconds we were a team. We rehearsed for a week before filming started and got to know each other really well. This publicity photo was taken before we\u2019d shot a single frame.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-b03036f463f13fd7\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-6.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1994: Here I am in Four Weddings And A Funeral. I knew Hugh Grant, James Fleet and Charlotte Coleman a bit, but didn\u2019t know John Hannah or Andie MacDowell, yet within seconds we were a team. We rehearsed for a week before filming started and got to know each other really well. This publicity photo was taken before we\u2019d shot a single frame.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">1994: Here I am in Four Weddings And A Funeral. I knew Hugh Grant, James Fleet and Charlotte Coleman a bit, but didn&#8217;t know John Hannah or Andie MacDowell, yet within seconds we were a team. We rehearsed for a week before filming started and got to know each other really well. This publicity photo was taken before we&#8217;d shot a single frame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-955076f43d162867\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-7.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1995: Filming Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was hell. Jim Carrey didn\u2019t want to make it. He was off sick a lot, so I was kicking my heels in South Carolina. I had work in London, so I flew home regularly. My contract said I had to have first-class flights, but I didn\u2019t know they were being deducted from my salary. I remember thinking, \u2018Here I am on my 46th birthday acting with a man who has asparagus hanging from his lip. Something has gone seriously wrong.\u2019\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-955076f43d162867\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-7.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1995: Filming Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was hell. Jim Carrey didn\u2019t want to make it. He was off sick a lot, so I was kicking my heels in South Carolina. I had work in London, so I flew home regularly. My contract said I had to have first-class flights, but I didn\u2019t know they were being deducted from my salary. I remember thinking, \u2018Here I am on my 46th birthday acting with a man who has asparagus hanging from his lip. Something has gone seriously wrong.\u2019\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">1995: Filming Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was hell. Jim Carrey didn&#8217;t want to make it. He was off sick a lot, so I was kicking my heels in South Carolina. I had work in London, so I flew home regularly. My contract said I had to have first-class flights, but I didn&#8217;t know they were being deducted from my salary. I remember thinking, &#8216;Here I am on my 46th birthday acting with a man who has asparagus hanging from his lip. Something has gone seriously wrong.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d207c3800497e112\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-8.jpg\" height=\"826\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1999: When I was invited to receive my CBE from the Queen, I decided to do it in style. I ordered a posh car to take me to the Palace but it didn\u2019t turn up, so I lumbered up in a run-down local cab just in time. The man at the door said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry, just do what the chap in front of you does.\u2019 He added, \u2018Not always a reliable method. A man arrived later than you once and I told him the same. Trouble was the chap in front was a Gurkha, and they prostrate themselves on the floor in front of the Queen then back away on their knees. This elderly JP felt obliged to do the same.\u2019\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d207c3800497e112\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-8.jpg\" height=\"826\" width=\"634\" alt=\"1999: When I was invited to receive my CBE from the Queen, I decided to do it in style. I ordered a posh car to take me to the Palace but it didn\u2019t turn up, so I lumbered up in a run-down local cab just in time. The man at the door said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry, just do what the chap in front of you does.\u2019 He added, \u2018Not always a reliable method. A man arrived later than you once and I told him the same. Trouble was the chap in front was a Gurkha, and they prostrate themselves on the floor in front of the Queen then back away on their knees. This elderly JP felt obliged to do the same.\u2019\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">1999: When I was invited to receive my CBE from the Queen, I decided to do it in style. I ordered a posh car to take me to the Palace but it didn&#8217;t turn up, so I lumbered up in a run-down local cab just in time. The man at the door said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry, just do what the chap in front of you does.&#8217; He added, &#8216;Not always a reliable method. A man arrived later than you once and I told him the same. Trouble was the chap in front was a Gurkha, and they prostrate themselves on the floor in front of the Queen then back away on their knees. This elderly JP felt obliged to do the same.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-bb5fbb99a129434d\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-9.jpg\" height=\"699\" width=\"634\" alt=\"2004: This is me as Charles Dickens, with Christopher Eccleston, on the set of Doctor Who. When I was first asked to take the role I thought it was a terrible idea, I feared they would mock Dickens. Then I read the brilliant script by Mark Gatiss and realised it was a wonderful evocation of the writer, bringing him to life and showing what a visionary he was.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-bb5fbb99a129434d\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/actor-and-author-simon-callow-70-shares-the-stories-behind-his-favourite-snaps-9.jpg\" height=\"699\" width=\"634\" alt=\"2004: This is me as Charles Dickens, with Christopher Eccleston, on the set of Doctor Who. When I was first asked to take the role I thought it was a terrible idea, I feared they would mock Dickens. Then I read the brilliant script by Mark Gatiss and realised it was a wonderful evocation of the writer, bringing him to life and showing what a visionary he was.\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">2004: This is me as Charles Dickens, with Christopher Eccleston, on the set of Doctor Who. When I was first asked to take the role I thought it was a terrible idea, I feared they would mock Dickens. Then I read the brilliant script by Mark Gatiss and realised it was a wonderful evocation of the writer, bringing him to life and showing what a visionary he was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span class=\"mol-style-italic mol-style-bold\">London&#8217;s Great Theatres, Simon&#8217;s new book with the photographer Derry Moore, is out now.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities share the stories behind their favourite photographs. This week it&#8217;s actor and author Simon Callow, 70.&nbsp; Actor and author Simon Callow, 70,&nbsp;reveals the stories behind a selection of his favourite photographs 1951: Here I am aged two being introduced to Father Christmas at Selfridges \u2013 I look a bit anxious. 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