Timothy West

Actor Oct 20 (died age 90) Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK 1956–2024 (68 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

EverAfter

King Francis

Film

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Dymas (voice)

Film

The Day of the Jackal

Commissioner Berthier

Film

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Cauchon

Film

Gentleman Jack

Jeremy Lister

Film

102 Dalmatians

Judge

Film

Beyond Borders

Lawrence Bauford

Film

Going Postal

Ridcully

Filmography

Acting (128)

Movies (66)

The Big Snow of '47

2024

as Self

Night of the Broken

2022

as Adolf Hitler

8.0

Bring Back My Bonnie

2022

as Roger

We the Kings

2018

as Victor

10.0

Delirium

2017

as College Bursar

The Vote

as Fred Norris

Run For Your Wife

as Man in Pub

Idle-Hands

as Spam

Endgame

as P.W. Botha

A Room with a View

as Mr Eager

Colditz

as Bunny Warren

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

as Dymas (voice)

Beyond Borders

as Lawrence Bauford

Martin Luther

as Martin Luther

Villa Des Roses

as Hugh Burrell

Iris

as Older Maurice

Station Jim

as Sir Christopher Ellis

The Fourth Angel

as Jones

102 Dalmatians

as Judge

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

as Cauchon

EverAfter

as King Francis

Animated Epics: Beowulf

1998

as Hrothgar ( voice )

4.3

King Lear

1998

as Gloucester

8.0

The Place of the Dead

1997

as Chairman of the Inquiry

5.3

Eleven Men Against Eleven

as Sir Bob Luckton

The Tempest

as Prospero

Survival of the Fittest

1990

as Geoffrey Cowper

Dirty Beasts

1990

as Narrator

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990

as Col. Wilfred Wood

6.5

Revolting Rhymes

1990

as Narrator

Beecham

1990

as Sir Thomas Beecham

Blore M.P.

as Derek Blore MP

Lenin: The Train

as Parvus

Consuming Passions

as Dr. Rees

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

1988

as Charles Clutterbuck

What the Butler Saw

as Dr Rance

Cry Freedom

as Capt. De Wet

Breakthrough at Reykjavik

1987

as Mikhail Gorbachev

When We Are Married

1987

as Councillor Albert Parker

Harry's Kingdom

1987

as Harry King

The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

1986

as Dr John Bodkin Adams

5.3

Florence Nightingale

1985

as Russell

5.7

Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage

1984

as Self

Oliver Twist

1982

as Mr. Bumble

6.6

Murder Is Easy

1982

as Lord Gordon Easterfield

Rough Cut

as Nigel Lawton

Agatha

as Kenward

Henry VIII

as Cardinal Wolsey

Churchill and the Generals

1979

as Winston Churchill

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978

as Porton

6.7

News from Nowhere

1978

as William Morris

The Devil's Advocate

as Father Anselmo

Joseph Andrews

as Mr. Tow-Wouse

The After Dinner Game

as Mark Childers

Hedda

as Brack

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

1974

4.3

The Day of the Jackal

1973

as Commissioner Berthier

7.5

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

as Prof. Gebhardt

6.1

Horatio Bottomley

1972

as Horatio Bottomley

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Dr. Botkin

6.9

The Looking Glass War

as Taylor

Edward II

as Young Mortimer

The Tragedy of King Richard II

1970

as Henry Bolingbroke

Twisted Nerve

1968

as Superintendant Dakin

6.7

The Deadly Affair

1967

as Matrvis (in Edward II)

6.2

The Book of Water

as Geiser

Television (62)

Sister Boniface Mysteries

as Charles Usher

Gentleman Jack

as Jeremy Lister

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

as Johnny Falstaff

Inside No. 9

as Andrew

Great Canal Journeys

as Self

Toast of London

Last Tango in Halifax

as Ted

Titanic

as Lord Pirrie

Exile

as Metzler

Going Postal

as Ridcully

A Room with a View

as Reverend Eager

Lewis

2007

as Donald Terry

7.6

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

Not Going Out

as Geoffrey Adams

Bleak House

as Sir Leicester Dedlock

Colditz

as Bunny Warren

New Tricks

as Professor Mears

The Alan Clark Diaries

2004

as Sir Robert Armstrong

6.5

London

2004

as Henry Mayhew

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

2002

as Andy Maiden

7.2

Dickens

2002

as John Dickens

Waking the Dead

2001

as Joe Doyle

7.2

Murder in Mind

2001

as Dr. William Collins

Bedtime

as Andrew Oldfield

Midsomer Murders

as Marcus Devere

Over Here

as Narrator

Bramwell

as Colonel Kindersley

3.6

Smokescreen

1994

as Frank Sheringham

Goodnight Sweetheart

1993

7.2

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

1992

as Prospero (voice)

6.3

Framed

1992

as DCI Jimmy McKinnes

Performance

as Gloucester

Murder Most Horrid

as Old Doctor Adams

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Reverend Cottrell

Campion

as William Faraday

After Henry

as Nigel

Lenin... The Train

as Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus

6.0

A Very Peculiar Practice

1986

as Professor Furie

8.0

The Monocled Mutineer

1986

7.0

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

1985

as Rex Fortescue

7.1

Theatre Night

1985

as Doctor Rance

Tender Is the Night

as Mr. Morris

Brass

as Bradley Hardacre

Brass

as Winston Churchill

Masada

as Emperor Vespasian

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Albert Taylor

6.7

Crime and Punishment

1979

as Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin

7.3

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

An Audience with...

as Self

Hard Times

as Josiah Bounderby

Edward the Seventh

as Albert Edward 'Bertie'

The Edwardians

as Horatio Bottomley

Play for Today

as Mark Childers

Witch Hunt

as Dr. Howard Agister

Mystery and Imagination

1966

as Dr Middleton

5.5

Thirty-Minute Theatre

as Jack Campion

Theatre 625

as Jan

Coronation Street

as Eric Babbage

Persuasion

as Charles Hayter

No Hiding Place

1959

3.7

Theatre Night

1957

as Talky

Armchair Theatre

1956

as Ralph

5.8