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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Actor
2025
as Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton
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
2024
as Herr Knock
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
2024
as Andrew McGrath
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
2024
as Detective Danforth
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
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
2023
Director
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
2022
as Captain Hitchcock
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?
2021
Co-Director
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
2020
as Lord Protector (voice)
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
2020
as Magician
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
2018
as Sir Francis Chichester
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
2017
as Himself
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
2017
Director
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
2016
as S.O.E. Official
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
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
2016
as Self
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
2016
as Maurice Grosse
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
2015
as Atlee
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
2014
as Frank Hawking
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
2014
as Howard Burkan
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
2013
as Tim Clancy
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
2011
as Oliver Lacon
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
2011
as Mr. Brocklehurst
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
2010
as Kreacher (voice)
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
2010
Director, Writer
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
2010
as Father Tancred
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
2009
as Robert Freign
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
2008
as Garland
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
2008
as Charles Fox
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
2007
as Fra Pavel
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
2007
Story, Executive Producer
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
2006
as Aaron
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
2006
as British Diplomat
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
2004
as Dr. Atticus Noyle
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
2004
as Stephen
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
2003
as Sneath
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
2003
Director
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
2003
as Thomas
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
2000
as Sergei Eisenstein
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

Onegin
1999
as Triquet
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Inside-Out
1999
as Market researcher
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
1998
as Vauvinet
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
1996
as Brigadier
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
1994
as Franz Mesmer junior
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
1994
as Hermas
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Tom & Viv
1994
as Dr. Reginald Miller
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
1994
as Salesman
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
1993
as Madman
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
1992
as Mick
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
1991
as Assistant Oscar
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
1988
as Martin
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 ...