
Timothy West
Known for Acting · 135 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 (67)

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

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Albert Taylor

New Tricks
2004
as Professor Mears

Theatre 625
1964
as Jan

Lewis
2007
as Donald Terry

Waking the Dead
2001
as Joe Doyle

Inside No. 9
2014
as Andrew

No Hiding Place
1959

An Audience with...
1978
as Self

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Jack Campion
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
as Self

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002
as Andy Maiden

Murder in Mind
2001
as Dr. William Collins

Not Going Out
2006
as Geoffrey Adams

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
2018
as Johnny Falstaff

Performance
1991
as Gloucester

Bleak House
2005
as Sir Leicester Dedlock

Gentleman Jack
2019
as Jeremy Lister

Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Old Doctor Adams

Screen One
1989
as Derek Blore / Geoffrey Cowper

Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Dr Middleton

Goodnight Sweetheart
1993

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Prospero (voice)

Last Tango in Halifax
2012
as Ted

Bramwell
1995
as Colonel Kindersley

After Henry
1988
as Nigel

Toast of London
2013

Theatre Night
1957
as Talky

Campion
1989
as William Faraday

Brass
1983
as Bradley Hardacre / Winston Churchill

Titanic
2012
as Lord Pirrie

Masada
1981
as Emperor Vespasian

Theatre Night
1985
as Doctor Rance / David Roberts / Ewbank

A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
as Professor Furie

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
1985
as Rex Fortescue

The Edwardians
1972
as Horatio Bottomley

Going Postal
2010
as Ridcully

Villains
1972
as Benny

Tender Is the Night
1985
as Mr. Morris
Sunday Premiere
1986
as Harry King

Exile
2011
as Metzler
Cottage to Let
1977
as David Weston

Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979

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

Colditz
2005
as Bunny Warren

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Ralph

Great Canal Journeys
2014
as Self

Dickens
2002
as John Dickens

Framed
1992
as DCI Jimmy McKinnes

Hard Times
1977
as Josiah Bounderby
A Room with a View
2008
as Reverend Eager
Trapped
1967
as Ossie

Bedtime
2001
as Andrew Oldfield
London
2004
as Henry Mayhew

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

The Alan Clark Diaries
2004
as Sir Robert Armstrong

Persuasion
1960
as Charles Hayter
Movies (68)

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

Iris
2001
as Older Maurice

Consuming Passions
1988
as Dr. Rees

Cuts
1996
as Lord Mellow

Beyond Borders
2003
as Lawrence Bauford

The Deadly Affair
1967
as Matrvis (in Edward II)

Rough Cut
1980
as Nigel Lawton

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974

Oliver Twist
1982
as Mr. Bumble

Cry Freedom
1987
as Capt. De Wet

Sardines
2014
as Andrew

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Dr. Botkin

The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
as Porton

Dirty Beasts
1990
as Narrator

The Place of the Dead
1997
as Chairman of the Inquiry

Twisted Nerve
1968
as Superintendant Dakin

Lenin: The Train
1988
as Parvus

Colditz
2005
as Bunny Warren

The Fourth Angel
2001
as Jones

The Looking Glass War
1970
as Taylor

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Prof. Gebhardt

Revolting Rhymes
1990
as Narrator

When We Are Married
1987
as Councillor Albert Parker

Martin Luther
2003
as Martin Luther

Delirium
2017
as College Bursar

The Devil's Advocate
1977
as Father Anselmo

Endgame
2009
as P.W. Botha

Murder Is Easy
1982
as Lord Gordon Easterfield

Florence Nightingale
1985
as William Russell

Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
as Hrothgar ( voice )

Run For Your Wife
2012
as Man in Pub

Agatha
1979
as Kenward

Joseph Andrews
1977
as Mr. Tow-Wouse

Harry's Kingdom
1987
as Harry King

Night of the Broken
2022
as Adolf Hitler

Villa Des Roses
2002
as Hugh Burrell

A Room with a View
2007
as Mr Eager

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

Bring Back My Bonnie
2022
as Roger

Henry VIII
1979
as Cardinal Wolsey

The Tempest
1993
as Prospero
Station Jim
2001
as Sir Christopher Ellis

The Big Snow of '47
2024
as Self

Edward II
1970
as Young Mortimer

The Vote
2015
as Fred Norris

Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995
as Sir Bob Luckton

The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
1986
as Dr John Bodkin Adams

Churchill and the Generals
1979
as Winston Churchill

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

King Lear
1998
as Gloucester
The Book of Water
as Geiser

What the Butler Saw
1987
as Dr Rance

The Tragedy of King Richard II
1970
as Henry Bolingbroke

The After Dinner Game
1975
as Mark Childers

Hedda
1975
as Brack
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
1987
as Mikhail Gorbachev
News from Nowhere
1978
as William Morris

Survival of the Fittest
1990
as Geoffrey Cowper

We the Kings
2018
as Victor

Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984
as Self

Blore M.P.
1989
as Derek Blore MP

Horatio Bottomley
1972
as Horatio Bottomley
Idle-Hands
2010
as Spam
Beecham
1990
as Sir Thomas Beecham
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 135 credits spanning from 1956 to 2024, Timothy West has appeared in 68 films and 67 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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