Simon McBurney
Highest Rated: 93% Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015)
Lowest Rated: 20% A Business Affair (1995)
Birthday: Aug 25, 1957
Birthplace: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Englishman Simon McBurney enjoyed two distinct phases of his screen career; he began as a character player, who excelled at playing ruddy-faced, wizened, vaguely sinister types, often of a European or Eastern European origin. His resumé -- in this capacity -- includes such films as Kafka (1991), Eisenstein (as the famous Russian director), and Jonathan Demme's political thriller remake The Manchurian Candidate (2004). As of 2007, however, McBurney shifted gears somewhat by stepping behind the camera, when he executive produced and authored the screen story of the Rowan Atkinson vehicle Mr. Bean's Holiday.

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Filmography

MOVIES

CREDIT
80% The Conjuring 2 Maurice Grosse $102.5M 2016
No Score Yet The Casual Vacancy Colin Wall — 2015
93% Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Atlee $155M 2015
79% The Theory of Everything Frank Hawking $35.9M 2014
51% Magic in the Moonlight Howard Burkan — 2014
No Score Yet For Those Who Can Tell No Tales Actor — 2014
83% Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Oliver Lacon $20.3M 2011
84% Jane Eyre Mr. Brocklehurst — 2011
77% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 Kreacher $295M 2010
43% Robin Hood Father Tancred $105.3M 2010
33% Boogie Woogie Robert Friegn — 2010
55% Body of Lies Garland $39.4M 2008
62% The Duchess Charles Fox $13.9M 2008
42% The Golden Compass Fra Pavel $70.2M 2007
52% Mr. Bean's Holiday Executive Producer $32.6M 2007
87% The Last King of Scotland Nigel Stone $17.5M 2006
72% Friends With Money Aaron $13.3M 2006
No Score Yet Human Touch Bernard — 2004
65% Bright Young Things Sneath/Photo Rat $0.9M 2004
80% The Manchurian Candidate Atticus Noyle $65.8M 2004
39% The Reckoning Stephen — 2004
No Score Yet Skagerrak Actor — 2003
64% Eisenstein Sergei Eisenstein — 2002
48% Onegin Triquet — 1999
89% Der Unhold (The Ogre) Brigadier — 1999
41% Cousin Bette Vauvinet — 1998
20% A Business Affair Salesman — 1995
31% Tom & Viv Dr. Reginald Miller — 1994
54% Being Human Hermas — 1994
No Score Yet Mesmer Franz — 1994
52% Kafka Assistant Oscar — 1991

TV

CREDIT
52% The Loudest Voice
2019
Rupert Murdoch
  • 2019
56% The Casual Vacancy
2015
Colin Wall
  • 2015
No Score Yet Rev
2010-2015
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
85% The Borgias
2011-2013
Johannes Burchard
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011

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