Simon Bamford

Simon Bamford

Born: May 22, 1961
Simon Bamford Simon is best known for playing the ‘Butterball Cenobite’ in the original 'Hellraiser' and its first sequel 'Hellbound', as well as ‘Ohnaka’ in Clive Barker's 'Nightbreed'. However it was The Who’s 'Quadrophenia' which gave Simon his first film experience at the age of 16.

Discovered playing 'The Fool' in a London production of King Lear by film director Clive Barker, he was invited to join 'The Dog Company' where he worked with Doug Bradley (Pinhead) and Oliver Parker (Film director of 'Johnny English Reborn', 'St Trinians', 'Dad's Army', 'Dorian Gray' & Swimming with Men’). 'Hellraiser' and 'Nightbreed' followed shortly afterwards.

Simon was reunited with Clive whilst playing Derek in 'The Book of Blood' for Matador films. He was reunited with Candyman Tony Todd whilst playing ‘Gary’ in 'Dead of the Nite', and can be heard as the voice of ‘Commander Elgin’ in the animation 'The 11th Hour - Jericho'.

In 2015 he completed four shoots: 'Arcade', 'Roots', 'The Pub Launch' and the auto-cannibalism horror short 'Hunger'. More recently he played the ‘Witchfinder General’ in ‘The Haunting of Margam Castle’ shot in Wales, and in LA, played art gallery owner ‘Mr Peindre’ in ‘14 Ghosts’.

Outside of the horror genre, Simon played the senior consultant in the feature film 'Starfish' starring Tom Riley from 'Da Vinci's Demons' and Golden Globe winner Joanne Froggatt from 'Downton Abbey'. In 2021 he completed production on the award winning feature film ‘You are my Sunshine’ a LGBTQ love story set across several decades.

He has worked in theatre worldwide from Kuala Lumpur to Stockholm, Ohio to Karachi. and has become a much sought after horror convention guest with USA shows in Atlantic City, Florida, Boston, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Indianapolis and LA as well as European shows in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. Simon was invited to play horror legend ‘Peter Vincent’ in the ‘Fright Night’ documentary 'You're so cool Brewster' which won ‘Best Documentary’ at the Top Indie film awards in 2017

He won ‘Best Actor’ for his portrayal of ‘Pip’ in a stage production of ‘Great Expectations’. For the 2022 Sci-Fi movie, ‘Project Skyquake’, he won Best Ensemble at the Las Vegas Movie Awards, and was nominated for Best Supporting actor at the Tietê International Film Awards.

He was awarded the ‘Lifetime of Torment Award’ at Texas Frightmare in 2018

and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 at the ‘Russian International Horror Film Festival.

In 2017 Simon shot the first episode of the ‘Dark Ditties’ series ‘The Offer’, bringing to life the role of smarmy investment banker, ‘Jonathon Brook Davies’.

To date he has appeared in five of the ‘Dark Ditties Presents’ series.

All episodes are available now on Amazon & Amazon Prime in both the UK and USA.

In 2024, the long awaited Horror anthology ‘Mosaic’ is due for release. Simon plays ‘Elliot Foley’, a Detective Inspector, trying to make sense of an increasingly brutal series of bizarre murders. The Hungarian movie ‘Aftermath’ is also due for release this year. Simon plays the voice of ‘Alpha’, a squad leader, in a strange, mysterious world.

He is currently in pre-production for two new films shooting in 2024.

Movies for Simon Bamford...

Aftermath
Title: Aftermath
Character: Alpha
Released: January 29, 2024
Type: Movie
After waking up in the middle of a forest with no memories, a young woman is targeted by mysterious strangers with a motive as unclear as her way back home.
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Mosaic
Title: Mosaic
Character: DI Eliot Foley
Released: January 13, 2024
Type: Movie
A detective investigates a number of both recent and cold case killings; is there a connection?
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Project Skyquake
Title: Project Skyquake
Character: Andrew
Released: October 4, 2022
Type: Movie
After strange trumpet-like sounds in the sky have been reported at locations around the world, a wannabe journalist sets out to investigate with his best friend, but they soon find themselves facing an encounter with terrifying results.
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You Are My Sunshine
Title: You Are My Sunshine
Released: December 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Tom and Joe have been together for years. And to some extent, have been together alone. You Are My Sunshine charts their humble beginnings in a world only just waking up to homosexuality, to present day, and a world facing their elder selves. As present day brings further conflict as well as the potential change in the air, Tom and Joe's story will be shown from its first monumental day all the way to its loving last.
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The Haunting of Margam Castle
Title: The Haunting of Margam Castle
Released: September 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK's most haunted buildings.
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You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Title: You're So Cool, Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
Character: Peter Vincent
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
An extensive look at the making of Fright Night (1985) and Fright Night Part 2 (1988) featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, rare photographs, behind-the-scenes footage and more.
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Starfish
Title: Starfish
Character: Senior Consultant
Released: October 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Based on the real story of Tom and Nicola Ray from Rutland. Their perfect life is totally ruined in a single moment after Tom had developed sepsis. While her husband was in coma, Nicola gave birth to their second child on the other side of the same hospital. Within a matter of days, sepsis would rob Tom of both his arms and legs, and left his face severely disfigured. As an ordinary man, Tom never put himself at risk — he just woke up two months later in a nightmare, a face-off quadruple amputee... This incredible story of survival shows what can be overcome when love is unconditional.
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Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Title: Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Character: Self
Released: June 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II films.
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Hell on Earth: The Story of Hellraiser III
Title: Hell on Earth: The Story of Hellraiser III
Character: Himself
Released: June 18, 2015
Type: Movie
"The Story of Hellrasier III" offers a half-hour discussion of the overhaul involved in the making of the delayed third film in the Hellraiser franchise, in which a cult horror format was consciously transformed into a mass-market product with an eye on the teen market and a sense of disappointment from the British crew of the first two films. - Frank Harrison
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Tribes of the Moon: The Making of Nightbreed
Title: Tribes of the Moon: The Making of Nightbreed
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2014
Type: Movie
On the new Arrow blu release (and on the previous Scream Factory release), this feature-length making of takes a fresh approach to most similar docs by focussing on the actors and the actors alone. New interviews with all the main cast show the tremendous amount of love all had for the project and how it was Barker's wonderful characters that drew them all in. They spend a significant amount of time with each actor exploring their respective characters, delving deep into each, detailing exactly what each wanted to bring to the film.
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Dead of the Nite
Title: Dead of the Nite
Character: Gary
Released: April 3, 2013
Type: Movie
When a group of ghost hunters investigate the infamous Jericho Manor, they soon realise it's not just ghosts that go bump in the night! As people get murdered, the survivors need to discover who or what's killing them before it's too late.
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Book of Blood
Title: Book of Blood
Character: Derek
Released: March 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife.
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Nightbreed
Title: Nightbreed
Character: Ohnaka
Released: February 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, Boone decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates "us" from "them" and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian.
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Title: Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Character: ‘Butterball’ Cenobite
Released: December 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Julia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty, and the sinister Dr. Channard are sent into the dominion of the Cenobites themselves.
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Hellraiser
Title: Hellraiser
Character: 'Butterball' Cenobite
Released: September 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
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The 4th Reich
Title: The 4th Reich
Character: SS-Unterscharführer Kraus
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The chilling realities of Hitler's true intentions are exposed, to create a force that can never be beaten, a 4th Reich - The New World Order. A team of Nazi doctors and scientists were charged with generating a superior race. Their experiments and research would produce unspeakable evil and change the face of humanity forever.