Timothy West

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 121

Gender Male

Birthday October 20, 1934

Day of Death November 12, 2024 (90 years old)

Place of Birth Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Tim West
Timothy Lancaster West
Timothy West CBE

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Timothy West

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

Acting

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as Geiser

2024

as Self

2022		Bring Back My Bonnie as Roger
2022		Night of the Broken as Adolf Hitler
2022		Sister Boniface Mysteries (1 episode) as Charles Usher

2019		Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes (3 episodes) as Private Godfrey
2019		Gentleman Jack (16 episodes) as Jeremy Lister

2018		We the Kings as Victor
2018		Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators (1 episode) as Johnny Falstaff

2017

as College Bursar

2015

as Fred Norris

2014		Great Canal Journeys (34 episodes) as Self
2014		Inside No. 9 (1 episode) as Andrew

2013

(1 episode)

2012		Last Tango in Halifax (4 episodes) as Ted
2012		Run For Your Wife as Man in Pub
2012		Titanic (4 episodes) as Lord Pirrie

2011

(3 episodes)

2010		Going Postal (2 episodes) as Ridcully
2010		Idle-Hands as Spam

2009

as P.W. Botha

2007		A Room with a View as Mr Eager
2007		The Alan Titchmarsh Show (1 episode) as Self
2007		Lewis (1 episode) as Donald Terry

2006

(3 episodes) as Geoffrey Adams

2005		Bleak House (12 episodes) as Sir Leicester Dedlock
2005		Colditz (2 episodes) as Bunny Warren
2005		Colditz as Bunny Warren

2004		London (3 episodes) as Henry Mayhew
2004		The Alan Clark Diaries (1 episode)
2004		New Tricks (1 episode) as Professor Mears

2003		Beyond Borders as Lawrence Bauford
2003		Martin Luther as Martin Luther
2003		Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas as Dymas (voice)

2002		Dickens (3 episodes)
2002		The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (1 episode) as Andy Maiden
2002		Villa Des Roses as Hugh Burrell

2001		Station Jim as Sir Christopher Ellis
2001		Iris as Older Maurice
2001		Bedtime (15 episodes) as Andrew Oldfield
2001		The Fourth Angel as Jones
2001		Waking the Dead (2 episodes) as Joe Doyle
2001		Murder in Mind (1 episode) as Dr. William Collins

2000

as Judge

1999

as Cauchon

1998		EverAfter as King Francis
1998		King Lear as Gloucester
1998		Animated Epics: Beowulf as Hrothgar ( voice )

1997		Midsomer Murders (1 episode) as Marcus Devere
1997		The Place of the Dead as Chairman of the Inquiry

1996

(2 episodes) as Narrator

1995		Eleven Men Against Eleven as Sir Bob Luckton
1995		Bramwell (1 episode) as Colonel Kindersley

1994

(6 episodes) as Frank Sheringham

1993

(2 episodes)

1992		Framed (4 episodes) as DCI Jimmy McKinnes
1992		Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 episode) as Prospero (voice)

1991

(1 episode) as Old Doctor Adams

1990		The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Col. Wilfred Wood
1990		Survival of the Fittest as Geoffrey Cowper
1990		Lenin: The Train as Parvus
1990		Revolting Rhymes as Narrator
1990		Dirty Beasts as Narrator
1990		Beecham as Sir Thomas Beecham

1989		Blore M.P. as Derek Blore MP
1989		Campion (2 episodes) as William Faraday
1989		Agatha Christie's Poirot (1 episode) as Reverend Cottrell

1988		Lenin... The Train (2 episodes) as Parvus
1988		Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Charles Clutterbuck
1988		Consuming Passions
1988		After Henry (1 episode)

1987		When We Are Married as Councillor Albert Parker
1987		Breakthrough at Reykjavik as Mikhail Gorbachev
1987		Cry Freedom as Capt. De Wet
1987		What the Butler Saw as Dr Rance

1986		The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams as Dr John Bodkin Adams
1986		The Monocled Mutineer (4 episodes)
1986		A Very Peculiar Practice (1 episode)

1985		Tender Is the Night (6 episodes) as Mr. Morris
1985		Theatre Night (1 episode) as Ewbank (1 episode) as David Roberts (1 episode) as Doctor Rance
1985		Florence Nightingale as Russell
1985		Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (2 episodes) as Rex Fortescue

1984

(2 episodes) as Rex Fortescue

1983

(32 episodes)

1982		Oliver Twist as Mr. Bumble
1982		Murder Is Easy as Lord Gordon Easterfield

1981

(4 episodes) as Emperor Vespasian

1980

as Nigel Lawton

1979		Churchill and the Generals as Winston Churchill
1979		Crime and Punishment (3 episodes) as Porfiry Petrovich
1979		Tales of the Unexpected (1 episode) as Albert Taylor
1979		Henry VIII as Cardinal Wolsey
1979		Agatha as Kenward

1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare (1 episode) as Cardinal Wolsey
1978		The Thirty Nine Steps as Porton
1978		An Audience with... (3 episodes) as Self
1978		News from Nowhere as William Morris

1977		The Devil's Advocate as Father Anselmo
1977		Hard Times (4 episodes) as Josiah Bounderby
1977		Joseph Andrews as Mr. Tow-Wouse

1975		Hedda as Brack
1975		Edward the Seventh (13 episodes) as Edward VII
1975		The After Dinner Game as Mark Childers

1973		The Day of the Jackal as Commissioner Berthier
1973		Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Prof. Gebhardt

1972		Horatio Bottomley as Horatio Bottomley
1972		The Edwardians (1 episode) as Horatio Bottomley

1971

as Dr. Botkin

1970		Play for Today (1 episode) as Mark Childers
1970		Edward II as Young Mortimer
1970		The Tragedy of King Richard II as Henry Bolingbroke
1970		The Looking Glass War as Taylor

1968

as Superintendant Dakin

1967		Witch Hunt (5 episodes) as Dr. Howard Agister
1967		The Deadly Affair as Matrvis (in Edward II)

1966

(1 episode)

1965

(1 episode) as Jack Campion

1960		Persuasion (4 episodes) as Charles Hayter
1960		Coronation Street (7 episodes) as Eric Babbage

1959

(1 episode)

1956

(1 episode) as Ralph

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