Simon Callow

Simon Callow is one of Britain's foremost stage and film actors. He has written acclaimed biographies of Charles Laughton and Charles Dickens, and a three volume biography of Orson Welles, as well as the memoir Love Is Where It Falls. He has written on acting in Being an Actor and 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 read journalism with memoir. He has also written several shorter books: Shakespeare on Love, Oscar Wilde and His Circle and Dickens' Christmas. He was awarded CBE for Services to Acting in 1999.