Simon graduated from
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 1981. At the Young Vic in London, he played Ernst Robel in
Spring Awakening, At the Chichester Festival Theatre he played opposite
Nicholas Parsons and
Ruthie Henshall as 'Gabby' in
Follow the Star, In
Cairo and
Bucharest he performed in
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and played Roy in ''Neville's Island''. He played the
Butterball Cenobite in the first two Hellraiser films. He also created and played the role of Ohnaka in
Clive Barker's film
Nightbreed (1990). In 2009, he played Derek in
Book of Blood (2009), and has also designed and directed several international tours including
The Big Day in
Sofia,
Qatar and
Dubai as well as
Educating Rita in
Kuala Lumpur. Mountview was executive proucer and actor in the Dark Ditties series (2017 - 2019) on
Amazon Prime. ==Other work==