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.
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Acting History
2024
The Big Snow of '47 as Self
2022Bring Back My Bonnie as Roger
2022Night of the Broken as Adolf Hitler
2019Gentleman Jack as Jeremy Lister
2018We the Kings as Victor
2018Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators as Johnny Falstaff
2017Delirium as College Bursar
2015The Vote as Fred Norris
2014Great Canal Journeys as Self
2014Inside No. 9 as Andrew
2013Toast of London
2012Last Tango in Halifax as Ted
2012Run For Your Wife as Man in Pub
2012Titanic as Lord Pirrie
2011Exile as Metzler
2010Going Postal as Ridcully
2010Idle-Hands as Spam
2009Endgame as P.W. Botha
2007A Room with a View as Mr Eager
2007The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
2007Lewis as Donald Terry
2006Not Going Out as Geoffrey Adams
2005Bleak House as Sir Leicester Dedlock
2005Colditz as Bunny Warren
2005Colditz as Bunny Warren
2004London as Henry Mayhew
2004The Alan Clark Diaries as Sir Robert Armstrong
2004New Tricks as Professor Mears
2003Beyond Borders as Lawrence Bauford
2003Martin Luther as Martin Luther
2003Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas as Dymas (voice)
2002Dickens as John Dickens
2002The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Andy Maiden
2002Villa Des Roses as Hugh Burrell
2001Station Jim as Sir Christopher Ellis
2001Iris as Older Maurice
2001Bedtime as Andrew Oldfield
2001The Fourth Angel as Jones
2001Waking the Dead as Joe Doyle
2001Murder in Mind as Dr. William Collins
2000102 Dalmatians as Judge
1999The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Cauchon
1998EverAfter as King Francis
1998King Lear as Gloucester
1998Animated Epics: Beowulf as Hrothgar ( voice )
1997Midsomer Murders as Marcus Devere
1997The Place of the Dead as Chairman of the Inquiry
1996Over Here as Narrator
1995Eleven Men Against Eleven as Sir Bob Luckton
1995Bramwell as Colonel Kindersley
1994Smokescreen as Frank Sheringham
1993Goodnight Sweetheart
1993The Tempest as Prospero
1992Framed as DCI Jimmy McKinnes
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Prospero (voice)
1991Murder Most Horrid as Old Doctor Adams
1991Performance as Gloucester
1990The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story as Col. Wilfred Wood
1990Survival of the Fittest as Geoffrey Cowper
1990Lenin: The Train as Parvus
1990Dirty Beasts as Narrator
1990Revolting Rhymes as Narrator
1990Beecham as Sir Thomas Beecham
1989Blore M.P. as Derek Blore MP
1989Campion as William Faraday
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Reverend Cottrell
1988Lenin... The Train as Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus
1988Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Charles Clutterbuck
1988Consuming Passions as Dr. Rees
1988After Henry as Nigel
1987When We Are Married as Councillor Albert Parker
1987Breakthrough at Reykjavik as Mikhail Gorbachev
1987Cry Freedom as Capt. De Wet
1987Harry's Kingdom as Harry King
1987What the Butler Saw as Dr Rance
1986The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams as Dr John Bodkin Adams
1986The Monocled Mutineer
1986A Very Peculiar Practice as Professor Furie
1985Tender Is the Night as Mr. Morris
1985Theatre Night as Doctor Rance
1985Theatre Night as David Roberts
1985Theatre Night as Ewbank
1985Florence Nightingale as Russell
1985Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye as Rex Fortescue
1984Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage as Self
1983Brass as Bradley Hardacre
1983Brass as Winston Churchill
1982Oliver Twist as Mr. Bumble
1982Murder Is Easy as Lord Gordon Easterfield
1981Masada as Emperor Vespasian
1980Rough Cut as Nigel Lawton
1979Churchill and the Generals as Winston Churchill
1979Crime and Punishment as Porfiry Petrovich
1979Tales of the Unexpected as Albert Taylor
1979Henry VIII as Cardinal Wolsey
1979Agatha as Kenward
1978The Thirty Nine Steps as Porton
1978An Audience with... as Self
1978News from Nowhere as William Morris
1977The Devil's Advocate as Father Anselmo
1977Hard Times as Josiah Bounderby
1977Joseph Andrews as Mr. Tow-Wouse
1975Hedda as Brack
1975Edward the Seventh as Albert Edward 'Bertie'
1975Edward the Seventh as Edward, Prince of Wales
1975Edward the Seventh as King Edward VII
1975The After Dinner Game as Mark Childers
1973The Day of the Jackal as Commissioner Berthier
1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days as Prof. Gebhardt
1972Horatio Bottomley as Horatio Bottomley
1972The Edwardians as Horatio Bottomley
1971Nicholas and Alexandra as Dr. Botkin
1970Play for Today as Mark Childers
1970Edward II as Young Mortimer
1970The Tragedy of King Richard II as Henry Bolingbroke
1970The Looking Glass War as Taylor
1968Twisted Nerve as Superintendant Dakin
1967Witch Hunt as Dr. Howard Agister
1967The Deadly Affair as Matrvis (in Edward II)
1966Mystery and Imagination
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre as Jack Campion
1964Theatre 625 as Jan
1960Persuasion as Charles Hayter
1960Coronation Street as Eric Babbage
1959No Hiding Place
1956Armchair Theatre as Ralph
—The Book of Water as Geiser