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Timothy West

Timothy West

Actor · 1934–2024 · Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

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Biography

Timothy Lancaster West, CBE was an English film, stage, presenter and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.

Acted in 121

2020s

  1. 2026

    20 Years of Not Going Out

    Geoffrey (archive footage)

  2. 2022

    Bring Back My Bonnie

    Roger

  3. Night of the Broken

    Adolf Hitler

2010s

  1. 2019

    Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes

    Pte. Charles Godfrey · 3 episodes

  2. 2018

    We the Kings

    Victor

  3. 2017

    Delirium

    College Bursar

  4. 2015

    The Vote

    Fred Norris

  5. 2014

    Sardines

    Andrew

  6. 2013
  7. 2012

    Last Tango in Halifax

    Ted · 4 episodes

  8. Run For Your Wife

    Man in Pub

  9. Titanic

    Lord Pirrie · 4 episodes

  10. 2011

    Going Postal 2in1

    Ridcully

  11. Exile

    Metzler · 2 episodes

  12. 2010

2000s

  1. 2009

    Endgame

    P.W. Botha

  2. 2007

    A Room with a View

    Mr Eager

  3. 2006
  4. 2005
  5. Colditz

    Bunny Warren

  6. Colditz

    Bunny Warren · 2 episodes

  7. 2004

    The Alan Clark Diaries

    Sir Robert Armstrong · 1 episode

  8. 2003
  9. Martin Luther

    Martin Luther

  10. 2002

    Dickens

    John Dickens · 1 episode

  11. Villa Des Roses

    Hugh Burrell

  12. 2001

    Station Jim

    Sir Christopher Ellis

  13. Bedtime

    Andrew Oldfield · 15 episodes

  14. 2000

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1998
  3. King Lear

    Gloucester

  4. Animated Epics: Beowulf

    Hrothgar ( voice )

  5. 1997
  6. 1996

    Cuts

    Lord Mellow

  7. 1995

    Eleven Men Against Eleven

    Sir Bob Luckton

  8. 1994

    Smokescreen

    Frank Sheringham · 6 episodes

  9. 1993
  10. The Tempest

    Prospero

  11. 1992

    Framed

    DCI Jimmy McKinnes · 4 episodes

  12. 1991
  13. 1990

    The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

    Col. Wilfred Wood

  14. Survival of the Fittest

    Geoffrey Cowper

1980s

  1. 1989

    Blore M.P.

    Derek Blore MP

  2. 1988

    Lenin: The Train

    Parvus

  3. Lenin... The Train

    Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus · 2 episodes

  4. After Henry

    Nigel · 1 episode

  5. 1987

    When We Are Married

    Councillor Albert Parker

  6. Harry's Kingdom

    Harry King

  7. What the Butler Saw

    Dr Rance

  8. 1986

    The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

    Dr John Bodkin Adams

  9. The Monocled Mutineer

    TV

  10. A Very Peculiar Practice

    Professor Furie · 1 episode

  11. 1985

    Tender Is the Night

    Mr. Morris · 1 episode

  12. Florence Nightingale

    William Russell

  13. 1984

    Miss Marple

    Rex Fortescue · 1 episode

  14. The Last Bastion

    Winston Churchill · 3 episodes

  15. 1983

    Brass

    Bradley Hardacre, Winston Churchill · 32 episodes

  16. 1982

    Oliver Twist

    Mr. Bumble

  17. Murder Is Easy

    Lord Gordon Easterfield

  18. 1981
  19. 1980

1970s

  1. 1979
  2. Churchill and the Generals

    Winston Churchill

  3. Crime and Punishment

    Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin · 2 episodes

  4. Henry VIII

    Cardinal Wolsey

  5. 1978
  6. 1977

    The Devil's Advocate

    Father Anselmo

  7. Hard Times

    Josiah Bounderby · 4 episodes

  8. Joseph Andrews

    Mr. Tow-Wouse

  9. 1975

    Hedda

    Brack

  10. Edward the Seventh

    Albert Edward 'Bertie', Edward, Prince of Wales, King Edward VII · 1 episode

  11. The After Dinner Game

    Mark Childers

  12. 1974

    Soft Beds, Hard Battles

    Movie

  13. 1973
  14. 1972

    Horatio Bottomley

    Horatio Bottomley

  15. 1971
  16. 1970
  17. Edward II

    Young Mortimer

  18. The Tragedy of King Richard II

    Henry Bolingbroke

  19. The Looking Glass War

    Taylor

1960s

  1. 1969

    Big Breadwinner Hog

    Lennox · 8 episodes

  2. 1968

    Twisted Nerve

    Superintendant Dakin

  3. 1967

    The Deadly Affair

    Matrvis (in Edward II)

  4. 1966
  5. 1965
  6. 1964
  7. 1960

    Persuasion

    Charles Hayter · 2 episodes

1950s

  1. 1959
  2. 1957

    Theatre Night

    Talky · 1 episode

  3. 1956

    Armchair Theatre

    Ralph · 1 episode

Appearances7

2020s

  1. 2024

    The Big Snow of '47

    Self

2010s

  1. 2014

    Great Canal Journeys

    Self · 34 episodes

1990s

  1. 1996

    Over Here

    Narrator · 2 episodes

  2. 1990

    Dirty Beasts

    Narrator

  3. Revolting Rhymes

    Narrator

1980s

  1. 1984

    Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage

    Self