Simon McBurney

Simon McBurney

1957-08-25 Cambridge, England, UK 51 Credits

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.​

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The Actor

The Actor

2025

as Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton

5.6
Acting

Paul Cole finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. As bits and pieces of his past slowly emer...

Nosferatu

Nosferatu

2024

as Herr Knock

6.7
Acting

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

A Mistake

A Mistake

2024

as Andrew McGrath

6.1
Acting

In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to clos...

Gardening

Gardening

2024

as Detective Danforth

Acting

In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do 'the right thing', she re...

The Met: Live in HD – Die Zauberflöte

The Met: Live in HD – Die Zauberflöte

2023

Art Direction

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird ...

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

2023

Director

Directing

Based on Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a new work for theatre conc...

The Pale Blue Eye

The Pale Blue Eye

2022

as Captain Hitchcock

6.8
Acting

West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New Y...

Can I Live?

Can I Live?

2021

Co-Director

Directing

Part of the group Global Majority, actor Fehinti Balogun's path and priorities have been changed by what he's learned about planet Earth.

Wolfwalkers

Wolfwalkers

2020

as Lord Protector (voice)

8.2
Acting

In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with h...

Siberia

Siberia

2020

as Magician

5.0
Acting

Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey w...

The Mercy

The Mercy

2018

as Sir Francis Chichester

6.0
Acting

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in t...

The Encounter

The Encounter

2017

as Himself

Acting

In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encou...

The Encounter

The Encounter

2017

Director

Directing

In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encou...

Allied

Allied

2016

as S.O.E. Official

6.8
Acting

In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reuni...

The New Man

2016

as Self

Acting

A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and hi...

John Berger or The Art of Looking

John Berger or The Art of Looking

2016

as Self

5.2
Acting

Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art c...

The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring 2

2016

as Maurice Grosse

7.3
Acting

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

2015

as Atlee

7.2
Acting

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed...

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything

2014

as Frank Hawking

7.8
Acting

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who fall...

Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight

2014

as Howard Burkan

6.5
Acting

Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

2013

as Tim Clancy

4.5
Acting

Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011

as Oliver Lacon

6.6
Acting

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleague...

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

2011

as Mr. Brocklehurst

7.2
Acting

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

as Kreacher (voice)

7.7
Acting

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number

2010

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recent...

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

2010

as Father Tancred

6.4
Acting

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Rober...

Boogie Woogie

Boogie Woogie

2009

as Robert Freign

5.0
Acting

In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his a...

Body of Lies

Body of Lies

2008

as Garland

6.6
Acting

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, sc...

The Duchess

The Duchess

2008

as Charles Fox

7.0
Acting

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass

2007

as Fra Pavel

6.1
Acting

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Mr. Bean's Holiday

2007

Story, Executive Producer

6.4
Writing Producing

Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers Franc...

Friends with Money

Friends with Money

2006

as Aaron

5.1
Acting

As she reaches her mid-thirties and quits her lucrative job, singleton Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her suc...

The Last King of Scotland

The Last King of Scotland

2006

as British Diplomat

7.4
Acting

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in U...

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

2004

as Dr. Atticus Noyle

6.5
Acting

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...

The Reckoning

The Reckoning

2004

as Stephen

6.4
Acting

In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow...

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things

2003

as Sneath

6.3
Acting

During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...

The Elephant Vanishes

The Elephant Vanishes

2003

Director

Directing

Adapted from Haruki Murakami's short stories, The Elephant Vanishes reveals a strange and beautiful world lurking beneath the surface of Tokyo's brigh...

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

2003

as Thomas

6.1
Acting

Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Da...

Eisenstein

Eisenstein

2000

as Sergei Eisenstein

5.5
Acting

A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

Onegin

Onegin

1999

as Triquet

6.2
Acting

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Inside-Out

Inside-Out

1999

as Market researcher

6.2
Acting

Girl cleaning windows of an Oxford St store catches the eye of a guy in the street who larks about much to her amusement.

Cousin Bette

Cousin Bette

1998

as Vauvinet

5.7
Acting

Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her ...

The Ogre

The Ogre

1996

as Brigadier

6.4
Acting

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a s...

Mesmer

Mesmer

1994

as Franz Mesmer junior

6.0
Acting

A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal mag...

Being Human

Being Human

1994

as Hermas

5.1
Acting

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Tom & Viv

Tom & Viv

1994

as Dr. Reginald Miller

6.1
Acting

The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a...

A Business Affair

A Business Affair

1994

as Salesman

4.8
Acting

This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when...

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

1993

as Madman

Acting

Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At th...

The Crying Game

The Crying Game

1992

as Mick

Acting

Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England in the European Cup Final. To add to this he becom...

Kafka

Kafka

1991

as Assistant Oscar

6.4
Acting

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all...

Burning Ambition

Burning Ambition

1988

as Martin

Acting

When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they think they're ...