Timothy West

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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

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Dymas (voice)

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Cauchon

EverAfter

King Francis

102 Dalmatians

Judge

The Day of the Jackal

Commissioner Berthier

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Reverend Cottrell

Beyond Borders

Lawrence Bauford

Midsomer Murders

Marcus Devere

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2024	The Big Snow of '47 MOVIE	Self
2022	Bring Back My Bonnie MOVIE	Roger
2022	Night of the Broken MOVIE	Adolf Hitler
2019	Gentleman Jack TV	Jeremy Lister
2018	We the Kings MOVIE	Victor
2018	Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators TV	Johnny Falstaff
2017	Delirium MOVIE	College Bursar
2015	The Vote MOVIE	Fred Norris
2014	Great Canal Journeys TV	Self
2014	Sardines MOVIE	Andrew
2014	Inside No. 9 TV	Andrew
2013	Toast of London TV	Self
2012	Last Tango in Halifax TV	Ted
2012	Run For Your Wife MOVIE	Man in Pub
2012	Titanic TV	Lord Pirrie
2011	Exile TV	Metzler
2010	Going Postal TV	Ridcully
2010	Idle-Hands MOVIE	Spam
2009	Endgame MOVIE	P.W. Botha
2008	A Room with a View TV	Reverend Eager
2007	A Room with a View MOVIE	Mr Eager
2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show TV	Self
2007	Lewis TV	Donald Terry
2006	Not Going Out TV	Geoffrey Adams
2005	Bleak House TV	Sir Leicester Dedlock
2005	Colditz MOVIE	Bunny Warren
2005	Colditz TV	Bunny Warren
2004	London TV	Henry Mayhew
2004	The Alan Clark Diaries TV	Sir Robert Armstrong
2004	New Tricks TV	Professor Mears
2003	Beyond Borders MOVIE	Lawrence Bauford
2003	Martin Luther MOVIE	Martin Luther
2003	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas MOVIE	Dymas (voice)
2002	Dickens TV	John Dickens
2002	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries TV	Andy Maiden
2002	Villa Des Roses MOVIE	Hugh Burrell
2001	Station Jim MOVIE	Sir Christopher Ellis
2001	Iris MOVIE	Older Maurice
2001	Bedtime TV	Andrew Oldfield
2001	The Fourth Angel MOVIE	Jones
2001	Waking the Dead TV	Joe Doyle
2001	Murder in Mind TV	Dr. William Collins
2000	102 Dalmatians MOVIE	Judge
1999	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc MOVIE	Cauchon
1998	EverAfter MOVIE	King Francis
1998	King Lear MOVIE	Gloucester
1998	Animated Epics: Beowulf MOVIE	Hrothgar ( voice )
1997	Midsomer Murders TV	Marcus Devere
1997	The Place of the Dead MOVIE	Chairman of the Inquiry
1996	Over Here TV	Narrator
1995	Eleven Men Against Eleven MOVIE	Sir Bob Luckton
1995	Bramwell TV	Colonel Kindersley
1994	Smokescreen TV	Frank Sheringham
1993	Goodnight Sweetheart TV	Self
1993	The Tempest MOVIE	Prospero
1992	Framed TV	DCI Jimmy McKinnes
1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales TV	Prospero (voice)
1991	Murder Most Horrid TV	Old Doctor Adams
1991	Performance TV	Gloucester
1990	The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story MOVIE	Col. Wilfred Wood
1990	Survival of the Fittest MOVIE	Geoffrey Cowper
1990	Dirty Beasts MOVIE	Narrator
1990	Revolting Rhymes MOVIE	Narrator
1990	Beecham MOVIE	Sir Thomas Beecham
1989	Blore M.P. MOVIE	Derek Blore MP
1989	Campion TV	William Faraday
1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot TV	Reverend Cottrell
1988	Lenin: The Train MOVIE	Parvus
1988	Lenin... The Train TV	Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus
1988	Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun MOVIE	Charles Clutterbuck
1988	Consuming Passions MOVIE	Dr. Rees
1988	After Henry TV	Nigel
1987	When We Are Married MOVIE	Councillor Albert Parker
1987	Breakthrough at Reykjavik MOVIE	Mikhail Gorbachev
1987	Cry Freedom MOVIE	Capt. De Wet
1987	Harry's Kingdom MOVIE	Harry King
1987	What the Butler Saw MOVIE	Dr Rance
1986	The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams MOVIE	Dr John Bodkin Adams
1986	The Monocled Mutineer TV	Self
1986	A Very Peculiar Practice TV	Professor Furie
1985	Tender Is the Night TV	Mr. Morris
1985	Theatre Night TV	Doctor Rance
1985	Theatre Night TV	David Roberts
1985	Theatre Night TV	Ewbank
1985	Florence Nightingale MOVIE	Russell
1985	Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye TV	Rex Fortescue
1984	Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage MOVIE	Self
1983	Brass TV	Bradley Hardacre
1983	Brass TV	Winston Churchill
1982	Oliver Twist MOVIE	Mr. Bumble
1982	Murder Is Easy MOVIE	Lord Gordon Easterfield
1981	Masada TV	Emperor Vespasian
1980	Rough Cut MOVIE	Nigel Lawton
1979	Friday Night, Saturday Morning TV	Self
1979	Churchill and the Generals MOVIE	Winston Churchill
1979	Crime and Punishment TV	Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin
1979	Tales of the Unexpected TV	Albert Taylor
1979	Henry VIII MOVIE	Cardinal Wolsey
1979	Agatha MOVIE	Kenward
1978	The Thirty Nine Steps MOVIE	Porton
1978	An Audience with... TV	Self
1978	News from Nowhere MOVIE	William Morris
1977	The Devil's Advocate MOVIE	Father Anselmo
1977	Hard Times TV	Josiah Bounderby
1977	Joseph Andrews MOVIE	Mr. Tow-Wouse
1975	Hedda MOVIE	Brack
1975	Edward the Seventh TV	Albert Edward 'Bertie'
1975	Edward the Seventh TV	Edward, Prince of Wales
1975	Edward the Seventh TV	King Edward VII
1975	The After Dinner Game MOVIE	Mark Childers
1974	Soft Beds, Hard Battles MOVIE	Self
1973	The Day of the Jackal MOVIE	Commissioner Berthier
1973	Hitler: The Last Ten Days MOVIE	Prof. Gebhardt
1972	Horatio Bottomley MOVIE	Horatio Bottomley
1972	The Edwardians TV	Horatio Bottomley
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra MOVIE	Dr. Botkin
1970	Play for Today TV	Mark Childers
1970	Edward II MOVIE	Young Mortimer
1970	The Tragedy of King Richard II MOVIE	Henry Bolingbroke
1970	The Looking Glass War MOVIE	Taylor
1968	Twisted Nerve MOVIE	Superintendant Dakin
1967	Witch Hunt TV	Dr. Howard Agister
1967	The Deadly Affair MOVIE	Matrvis (in Edward II)
1966	Mystery and Imagination TV	Dr Middleton
1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre TV	Jack Campion
1964	Theatre 625 TV	Jan
1960	Persuasion TV	Charles Hayter
1960	Coronation Street TV	Eric Babbage
1959	No Hiding Place TV	Self
1957	Theatre Night TV	Talky
1956	Armchair Theatre TV	Ralph
	The Book of Water MOVIE	Geiser

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