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'''Cliff Simon''' (born 7 September 1962 |
'''Cliff Simon''' (born 7 September 1962 – 9 March 2021) was a South African athlete and actor, best known for his portrayal of [[Ba'al (Stargate)|Ba'al]] in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Back in South Africa, Simon entered the [[South African Air Force|air force]] where he continued his swimming and achieved the highest athletic award given in the air force, the [[Victor Ludorum]]. |
Back in South Africa, Simon entered the [[South African Air Force|air force]] where he continued his swimming and achieved the highest athletic award given in the air force, the [[Victor Ludorum]]. |
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Family confirmed online that Cliff had sadly passed away, on March 9th, 2021, in California, USA. |
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Cause of death was a kite boarding accident. |
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==Acting career== |
==Acting career== |
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In 2019, Cliff presented the travelogue documentary Uncharted Mysteries (Into the Unknown) which premiered on The History Channel in the U.K. on 24 February 2020. Part survival, part mystery, part travel documentary, Cliff travelled solo across the globe, into some of the most extreme and forbidding landscapes searching for hidden clues to some of the most nightmarish myths of all time. |
In 2019, Cliff presented the travelogue documentary Uncharted Mysteries (Into the Unknown) which premiered on The History Channel in the U.K. on 24 February 2020. Part survival, part mystery, part travel documentary, Cliff travelled solo across the globe, into some of the most extreme and forbidding landscapes searching for hidden clues to some of the most nightmarish myths of all time. |
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==Death== |
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On March 11, 2021, family confirmed online that Cliff had sadly passed away on March 9, 2021 at Topanga Beach in California. The cause of death was a kite boarding accident.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/03/stargate-actor-cliff-simon-passed-away-age-58/|title=Stargate Actor Cliff Simon Has Passed Away At Age 58|date=March 11, 2021|work=[[GateWorld]]|access-date=March 11, 2021}}</ref> |
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==Filmography== |
==Filmography== |
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Cliff Simon | |
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 Cliff Simon at the SciFi Convention 2012 | |
| Born | 7 September 1962 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Died | 9 March 2021 (aged 58) Topanga, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Athlete, actor, pilot |
| Parent(s) | Emmanuelle and Phylis Simon |
Cliff Simon (born 7 September 1962 – 9 March 2021) was a South African athlete and actor, best known for his portrayal of Ba'al in Stargate SG-1.
Early life
Simon was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the fourth child of Emmanuelle and Phylis Simon. Both of his parents are of Jewish ancestry from Poland and Lithuania.[1] From a very young age, Cliff aspired to be the first South African swimmer to win an Olympic Gold medal. His mother, a swimming teacher, taught him from a very young age, and at age 6 he began to show talent as a gymnast. By age 15, Cliff had reached a national level in South Africa in both swimming and gymnastics, but he decided to discontinue training in gymnastics to better focus on swimming.
In 1975, his parents decided to emigrate to the United Kingdom, due to the then-current turmoil in Africa. It was there that Simon completed his schooling and was chosen to swim in the British International squad. He competed in Olympic trials and qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The University of Houston and Southern Methodist University in Texas offered him scholarships, where he trained with the United States swimming team, the Mustangs. This would have culminated in him competing in the 1984 Olympic Games. However, after three years of intense training, he decided to quit and return to South Africa, due to his concerns that he was missing out on his social life.
Back in South Africa, Simon entered the air force where he continued his swimming and achieved the highest athletic award given in the air force, the Victor Ludorum.
Acting career
In 1982, after serving his two-year term in the air force, he landed a job teaching windsurfing and waterskiing at a resort hotel. As fate would have it, a stage show was in production at the resort and Simon was informed by one of the performers that the choreographer was looking for a gymnast. Simon somehow knew that this was going to be the first step towards a career on stage. Simon subsequently performed all over the world in various stage productions as a dancer/acrobat, culminating in his dream role as a performer at the world famous Moulin Rouge, Paris, in 1989.
On his return to South Africa, Simon pursued his stage career as an actor. Whilst studying drama, Simon secured himself a modelling agent and enjoyed success in ramp, print and television commercials. Simon received recognition as a model in South Africa and was asked to enter the Mr. South Africa talent and action man competition. On winning this competition in 1992, Simon was offered an audition on a successful television series, Egoli: Place of Gold. After guest starring on the show for three months, he accepted a permanent contract for a lead role in the show, which he continued for six years.
In 1997, he married his girlfriend in a game lodge in South Africa. After being personally affected by the high levels of crime in Johannesburg, he decided to immigrate to the USA, hoping for a better quality of life. This also gave him the opportunity to further his acting career.
Arriving in 2000 in Los Angeles, Simon secured an agent, and landed a guest star role with Don Johnson on the hit TV series, Nash Bridges. A short time after that, he acquired the guest star role of Ba'al on Stargate SG-1. Cliff's combination of charming bad guy charisma and wicked sense of humor made him a viewer favorite antagonist, keeping his character recurring for six seasons. In 2008, Simon was brought back to play Ba'al in the Stargate movie Stargate: Continuum.
In 2015, Simon appeared in a video as Ba'al for the conservation group, Sea Shepherd[2]
In July 2015, Cliff was confirmed for a supporting role in the sci-fi/thriller "Project Eden".
In 2019, Cliff presented the travelogue documentary Uncharted Mysteries (Into the Unknown) which premiered on The History Channel in the U.K. on 24 February 2020. Part survival, part mystery, part travel documentary, Cliff travelled solo across the globe, into some of the most extreme and forbidding landscapes searching for hidden clues to some of the most nightmarish myths of all time.
Death
On March 11, 2021, family confirmed online that Cliff had sadly passed away on March 9, 2021 at Topanga Beach in California. The cause of death was a kite boarding accident.[3]
Filmography
- Egoli: Place of Gold – Gregory (Mitch) Mitchel (unknown episodes, 1992–1999)
- Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire – Austin (2000)
- Nash Bridges – Dirk van der Goes (1 episode, 2000)
- Stargate SG-1 – Ba'al (15 episodes, 2001–2007)
- Stargate: Continuum – Ba'al (2008)
- 24 – Russian Sniper (Season 8 Episode 1, 2009)
- Undercovers – (season 1, episode 4: "Jailbreak", 2010)
- NCIS: Los Angeles – Hans Christian Kemp (season 2, episode 13: "Archangel", 2011)
- The Americans – Mossad Agent
- NCIS: New Orleans – Dmitry Babakov (Season 1, Episode 03: "Breaking Brig", 2014) (Credit as Cliff Marc Simon)
- Castle – Polkovnik (Season 7, Episode 04: "Child's Play", 2014) (Credit as Cliff Marc Simon)
- Into the Unknown (Uncharted Mysteries UK title) - Himself (2020)
References
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800101/bio
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFrDEzOvqg
- ^ "Stargate Actor Cliff Simon Has Passed Away At Age 58". GateWorld. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
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