Simon Chandler

Known for ActingBorn 1953-06-04 (age 73)Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK

Simon Chandler (born Simon Timothy Chandler, 4 June 1953 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England) – British film, television, and theatre actor, educated at Bedford School, active since 1976. Often cast as senior establishment figures such as Members of Parliament, civil servants, and officials. His most notable film roles include Private Simmonds in A Bridge Too Far (1977), Merry Brandybuck (voice) in The Lord of the Rings (1978), David Nelson in The Bounty (1984), Hawkins in The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), Mr. Wells in Vera Drake (2004), Mayor of Grasse in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), Lord Dawson in The King's Speech (2010), a Cabinet Minister in The Iron Lady (2011), Sir Augustus Wall Callcott in Mr. Turner (2014), John Taylor in The Theory of Everything (2014), and Sidney Rawle in The Mercy (2018). On television he is best known for Clement Attlee in The Crown (2016), Septon Eustace in House of the Dragon (2022), Mr. Hobbs in Jonny Briggs (1985, 28 episodes), and appearances in Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003), The Thick of It (2009), Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street (2008), and The Diplomat (2023). On stage he has appeared in Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and High Noon (2025, West End).Read more

Movies & web series

Dear Sarah

RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service

House of the Dragon

The Crown

Life Force

Slow Horses

The Thick of It

The Taming of the Shrew

The Theory of Everything

Foyle's War

Confessional

The Diplomat

The Peripheral

The King's Speech

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Friends and Other Lovers

The Taming of the Shrew

Land Girls

The Winslow Boy

The Duchess of Duke Street

The Bletchley Circle

Middlemarch

Brideshead Revisited

The Imitation Game

Call the Midwife

Silk

The Gold

Shine on Harvey Moon

Vera

ShakespeaRe-Told

Midsomer Murders

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

The Singing Detective

Teachers

The Old Guard

Vera Drake

So You Think You've Got Troubles

Victor/Victoria

Lace

Heartbeat

Antony & Cleopatra

Identity

A Bridge Too Far

The Vanishing Man

Screen Two

The Politician's Husband

Letters from Baghdad

Judge John Deed