Acting • AGE 68
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 Complic...


The Actor
Doctor Croft / Doctor Edgarton
2025

Nosferatu
Herr Knock
2024

Gardening
Detective Danforth
2024

A Mistake
Andrew McGrath
2023

Hijack
Edgar Janssen
2023

The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
Art Direction
2023

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Director
2023

The Pale Blue Eye
Captain Hitchcock
2022

Can I Live?
Co-Director
2021

Wolfwalkers
Lord Protector (voice)
2020

Siberia
Magician
2020

Carnival Row
Runyan Millworthy
2019

The Loudest Voice
Rupert Murdoch
2019

The Mercy
Sir Francis Chichester
2018

The Encounter
Himself
2017

Allied
S.O.E. Official
2016

John Berger or The Art of Looking
Self
2016

The Conjuring 2
Maurice Grosse
2016

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Atlee
2015

The Casual Vacancy
Colin Wall
2015

The Theory of Everything
Frank Hawking
2014

Magic in the Moonlight
Howard Burkan
2014

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
Tim Clancy
2013

Utopia
Professor Donaldson
2013

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Oliver Lacon
2011

The Borgias
Johannes Burchart
2011

Jane Eyre
Mr. Brocklehurst
2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Kreacher (voice)
2010

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number
Director
2010

Rev.
Robert
2010

Robin Hood
Father Tancred
2010

Boogie Woogie
Robert Freign
2010

Body of Lies
Garland
2008

The Duchess
Charles Fox
2008

The Golden Compass
Fra Pavel
2007

Mr. Bean's Holiday
Story
2007

The Last King of Scotland
British Diplomat
2006

Friends with Money
Aaron
2006

Lenny Henry Live - So Much Things To Say
Creative Consultant
2005

The Manchurian Candidate
Dr. Atticus Noyle
2004

The Reckoning
Stephen
2004

Bright Young Things
Sneath
2003

The Elephant Vanishes
Director
2003

Sweet Dreams
Thomas
2003

Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
2000

Onegin
Triquet
1999

Inside-Out
Market researcher
1999

Cousin Bette
Vauvinet
1998

Midsomer Murders
Henry Carstairs
1997

The Ogre
Brigadier
1996

Mesmer
Franz Mesmer junior
1994

Being Human
Hermas
1994

Tom & Viv
Dr. Reginald Miller
1994

A Business Affair
Salesman
1994

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Madman
1993

The Crying Game
Mick
1992

Kafka
Assistant Oscar
1991

Performance
Pistol
1991

Burning Ambition
Martin
1988

ScreenPlay
Martin
1986

Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979