Simon McBurney

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1957-08-25 (68 years old)

Place of Birth

Cambridge, England, UK

Simon McBurney

Biography

Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE (born 25 August 1957) is an English Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Théâtre de Complicité in England, now called Complicite. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon McBurney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting

2006

The Last King of Scotland

as British Diplomat

2007

The Golden Compass

as Fra Pavel

2008

Body of Lies

as Garland

2006

2008

The Duchess

as Charles Fox

2004

The Manchurian Candidate

as Dr. Atticus Noyle

2022

The Pale Blue Eye

as Captain Hitchcock

2003

2011

Jane Eyre

as Mr. Brocklehurst

2011

2003

Sweet Dreams

as Thomas

2000

Eisenstein

as Sergei Eisenstein

1994

2014

Magic in the Moonlight

as Howard Burkan

2009

Boogie Woogie

as Robert Freign

2004

The Reckoning

as Stephen

1992

2014

The Theory of Everything

as Frank Hawking

1988

2025

The Actor

as Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton

1999

Inside-Out

as Market researcher

1994

Mesmer

as Franz Mesmer junior

2016

The Conjuring 2

as Maurice Grosse

2010

Robin Hood

as Father Tancred

2016

2016

Allied

as S.O.E. Official

1994

Being Human

as Hermas

2017

The Encounter

as Himself

1994

Tom & Viv

as Dr. Reginald Miller

2018

The Mercy

as Sir Francis Chichester

1996

The Ogre

as Brigadier

1998

Cousin Bette

as Vauvinet

1991

Kafka

as Assistant Oscar

2020

Siberia

as Magician

2020

Wolfwalkers

as Lord Protector (voice)

1999

Onegin

as Triquet

2024

A Mistake

as Andrew McGrath

2024

Nosferatu

as Herr Knock

2024

Gardening

as Detective Danforth

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