
Timothy West
Known for Acting · 130 credits
- Born
- 1934-10-20
- Died
- 2024-11-12
- Place of birth
- Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Tim West · Timothy Lancaster West · Timothy West CBE
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
TV Shows (63)

Midsomer Murders
1997
as Marcus Devere

Coronation Street
1960
as Eric Babbage

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Reverend Cottrell

Play for Today
1970
as Mark Childers

Waking the Dead
2001
as Joe Doyle

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Albert Taylor

Inside No. 9
2014
as Andrew

New Tricks
2004
as Professor Mears

Lewis
2007
as Donald Terry

Theatre 625
1964
as Jan

No Hiding Place
1959

Not Going Out
2006
as Geoffrey Adams

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002
as Andy Maiden
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self

An Audience with...
1978
as Self

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Jack Campion

Performance
1991
as Gloucester

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018
as Johnny Falstaff

Murder in Mind
2001
as Dr. William Collins

Gentleman Jack
2019
as Jeremy Lister

Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Old Doctor Adams

Campion
1989
as William Faraday

Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Dr Middleton

Bramwell
1995
as Colonel Kindersley

Screen One
1989
as Derek Blore / Geoffrey Cowper

Toast of London
2013

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Prospero (voice)

Goodnight Sweetheart
1993

Bleak House
2005
as Sir Leicester Dedlock

Titanic
2012
as Lord Pirrie

A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
as Professor Furie

Great Canal Journeys
2014
as Self

Last Tango in Halifax
2012
as Ted

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985
as Rex Fortescue

Colditz
2005
as Bunny Warren

The Edwardians
1972
as Horatio Bottomley

Going Postal
2010
as Ridcully

Brass
1983
as Bradley Hardacre / Winston Churchill

After Henry
1988
as Nigel

Theatre Night
1957
as Talky

Masada
1981
as Emperor Vespasian

Theatre Night
1985
as Doctor Rance / David Roberts / Ewbank

Bedtime
2001
as Andrew Oldfield

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Ralph

Tender Is the Night
1985
as Mr. Morris

Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979

The Alan Clark Diaries
2004
as Sir Robert Armstrong

Hard Times
1977
as Josiah Bounderby
London
2004
as Henry Mayhew

Edward the Seventh
1975
as Albert Edward 'Bertie' / Edward, Prince of Wales / King Edward VII

The Monocled Mutineer
1986

Exile
2011
as Metzler

Framed
1992
as DCI Jimmy McKinnes

Dickens
2002
as John Dickens

Villains
1972
as Benny

Persuasion
1960
as Charles Hayter

Lenin... The Train
1988
as Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus

Smokescreen
1994
as Frank Sheringham
A Room with a View
2008
as Reverend Eager

Crime and Punishment
1979
as Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin
Movies (67)

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2003
as Dymas (voice)

The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Commissioner Berthier

EverAfter
1998
as King Francis

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
as Cauchon

102 Dalmatians
2000
as Judge

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Dr. Botkin

Iris
2001
as Older Maurice

Beyond Borders
2003
as Lawrence Bauford

Cry Freedom
1987
as Capt. De Wet

Murder Is Easy
1982
as Lord Gordon Easterfield

The Place of the Dead
1997
as Chairman of the Inquiry

Endgame
2009
as P.W. Botha

Rough Cut
1980
as Nigel Lawton
Station Jim
2001
as Sir Christopher Ellis

The Vote
2015
as Fred Norris

Twisted Nerve
1968
as Superintendant Dakin

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Prof. Gebhardt

The Deadly Affair
1967
as Matrvis (in Edward II)

Colditz
2005
as Bunny Warren

The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
as Porton

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Charles Clutterbuck

Florence Nightingale
1985
as Russell

The Fourth Angel
2001
as Jones

Oliver Twist
1982
as Mr. Bumble

Edward II
1970
as Young Mortimer

Run For Your Wife
2012
as Man in Pub

A Room with a View
2007
as Mr Eager

The Looking Glass War
1970
as Taylor

Agatha
1979
as Kenward

Dirty Beasts
1990
as Narrator

The Devil's Advocate
1977
as Father Anselmo

The Tragedy of King Richard II
1970
as Henry Bolingbroke

Consuming Passions
1988
as Dr. Rees

Lenin: The Train
1988
as Parvus

Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
as Hrothgar ( voice )

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
as Col. Wilfred Wood

Hedda
1975
as Brack

When We Are Married
1987
as Councillor Albert Parker

Joseph Andrews
1977
as Mr. Tow-Wouse

Henry VIII
1979
as Cardinal Wolsey

Churchill and the Generals
1979
as Winston Churchill

Harry's Kingdom
1987
as Harry King

King Lear
1998
as Gloucester

The Big Snow of '47
2024
as Self

Blore M.P.
1989
as Derek Blore MP

Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995
as Sir Bob Luckton

Revolting Rhymes
1990
as Narrator

Martin Luther
2003
as Martin Luther

The Tempest
1993
as Prospero
Beecham
1990
as Sir Thomas Beecham

Delirium
2017
as College Bursar

Survival of the Fittest
1990
as Geoffrey Cowper

The After Dinner Game
1975
as Mark Childers

Villa Des Roses
2002
as Hugh Burrell
Idle-Hands
2010
as Spam

Sardines
2014
as Andrew

We the Kings
2018
as Victor

The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
1986
as Dr John Bodkin Adams
The Book of Water
as Geiser

Night of the Broken
2022
as Adolf Hitler
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
1987
as Mikhail Gorbachev

Bring Back My Bonnie
2022
as Roger

What the Butler Saw
1987
as Dr Rance
News from Nowhere
1978
as William Morris

Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984
as Self

Horatio Bottomley
1972
as Horatio Bottomley
About Timothy West
Timothy Lancaster West, CBE was an English film, stage, presenter and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business. With 130 credits spanning from 1956 to 2024, Timothy West has appeared in 67 films and 63 TV shows.
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Most Popular Timothy West Movies
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) — as Dymas (voice)
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) — as Commissioner Berthier
- EverAfter (1998) — as King Francis
- The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) — as Cauchon
- 102 Dalmatians (2000) — as Judge
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