Simon Lowe
Birthday: Born in 1973-10-30 in England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Simon Lowe is a British actor who, among other titles, has played series regulars in Bodies (Dr. Tim Sibley), and The Grimleys (Shane Titley), both of which were written by Jed Mercurio. He also played Derek Evans in EastEnders. In April 2022, he began appearing in the BBC soap opera Doctors as Brian Kiernan. Prior to this, he played Sgt. James Collins in Doctors. As a teenager at the end of the 1980s, he had a regular role in the Central Independent Television soap opera Crossroads, playing Jason Grice. In 2007, he portrayed the survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, Joseph Spah, in the drama from Channel 4, Hindenburg: The Untold Story, directed by Sean Grundy. In 2010, in Channel 4's Bloody Foreigners, he played the role of Jan Zumbach, of 303 squadron. In 2011, he made a single appearance in HBO's Game of Thrones as a wine merchant, and he has portrayed Mr. Bell in the 4 O'Clock Club from 2013 to 2020. He also played Sir Cumference in the "A Knight's Tail" section of Hacker Time. Theatre work includes the portrayal of Dudley Moore in the show, Pete and Dud: Come Again that successfully toured United Kingdom in 2007, alongside actor Gareth Tunley playing Peter Cook. In 2013, Lowe appeared as the monk in Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer, as Dr. Quentin in the adaptation of The Big Four, for the final series of Agatha Christie's Poirot, and as a snobbish maître d' in an episode of Downton Abbey.
TV Credits
Bodies
Character: Tim Sibley
Bodies is an award-winning British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Created by Jed Mercurio, the series began in 2004 and is based on his book Bodies. In December 2009, The Times ranked Bodies in 9th place in its list of "Shows of the Decade". The Guardian has ranked the series among "The Greatest Television Dramas of All-Time"....
The Grimleys
Character:
The Grimleys is a nostalgic comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series. The show was written by Jed Mercurio, who had trained as a doctor and whose first series, Cardiac Arrest - written under the pseudonym 'John MacUre' - had attracted critical plaudits for its dark portrayal of life in a disintegrating British...
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Dr. Quentin
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions....
Game of Thrones
Character: Wine Merchant
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond....
Downton Abbey
Character: Maître d'
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. ...
Ackley Bridge
Character: Darren Critchall
A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community...
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Character: Florian Fortes
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents....
Peep Show
Character: Dom
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician....
Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Character: Mr. Baggot
When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London....
Movie Credits
Dead on Time
Character: Carlisle
It's the last fifteen minutes of 1999 and Steve Armitage plans to leave his mark by becoming the first suicide of the new millennium. However, complications ensue with a busted power card, a homicidal landlord, and a very pregnant neighbor....
The Beat Beneath My Feet
Character: Jonah
Teenage boy Tom lives with his single mum in a flat in South London. Into the flat below moves Steve, an anti-social, former Rock God who faked his death 8 years ago. Tom agrees not to reveal his secret on condition that he teaches him the dark arts of Rock Guitar....
Large
Character: Rob
The son of a '70s rock star has to meet stringent conditions to inherit the family fortune, while his mates and greedy stepmother have other ideas....
Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies
Character: Joseph Späh
The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive interviews with leading historians and engineering experts, the special delves into the political and scientific events that led up to the catastrophe....
The Marker
Character: Nigel Chivvers
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost....
Jack the Giant Slayer
Character: Monk
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance...
Nowhere Boy
Character: Guitar Shop Guy
The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years in Liverpool and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood....
Beyond Fear
Character: Youth
The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a coffin-like box for eight days....
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Character: Resistance Hangar Captain
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order....
Verisimilitude
Character: Matt
A struggling disabled actress gets a job advising a film star how to be disabled for his latest role....