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

Midsomer Murders

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Coronation Street

New Tricks

Play for Today

Tales of the Unexpected

Waking the Dead

Lewis

All Movies (67)

• The Big Snow of '472024 · as Self
• Bring Back My Bonnie2022 · as Roger
• Night of the Broken2022 · as Adolf Hitler
• We the Kings2018 · as Victor
• Delirium2017 · as College Bursar
• The Vote2015 · as Fred Norris
• Sardines2014 · as Andrew
• Run For Your Wife2012 · as Man in Pub
• Idle-Hands2010 · as Spam
• Endgame2009 · as P.W. Botha
• A Room with a View2007 · as Mr Eager
• Colditz2005 · as Bunny Warren
• Beyond Borders2003 · as Lawrence Bauford
• Martin Luther2003 · as Martin Luther
• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas2003 · as Dymas (voice)
• Villa Des Roses2002 · as Hugh Burrell
• Station Jim2001 · as Sir Christopher Ellis
• Iris2001 · as Older Maurice
• The Fourth Angel2001 · as Jones
• 102 Dalmatians2000 · as Judge
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc1999 · as Cauchon
• EverAfter1998 · as King Francis
• King Lear1998 · as Gloucester
• Animated Epics: Beowulf1998 · as Hrothgar ( voice )
• The Place of the Dead1997 · as Chairman of the Inquiry
• Eleven Men Against Eleven1995 · as Sir Bob Luckton
• The Tempest1993 · as Prospero
• The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story1990 · as Col. Wilfred Wood
• Survival of the Fittest1990 · as Geoffrey Cowper
• Dirty Beasts1990 · as Narrator
• Revolting Rhymes1990 · as Narrator
• Beecham1990 · as Sir Thomas Beecham
• Blore M.P.1989 · as Derek Blore MP
• Lenin: The Train1988 · as Parvus
• Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun1988 · as Charles Clutterbuck
• Consuming Passions1988 · as Dr. Rees
• When We Are Married1987 · as Councillor Albert Parker
• Breakthrough at Reykjavik1987 · as Mikhail Gorbachev
• Cry Freedom1987 · as Capt. De Wet
• Harry's Kingdom1987 · as Harry King
• What the Butler Saw1987 · as Dr Rance
• The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams1986 · as Dr John Bodkin Adams
• Florence Nightingale1985 · as William Russell
• Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage1984 · as Self
• Oliver Twist1982 · as Mr. Bumble
• Murder Is Easy1982 · as Lord Gordon Easterfield
• Rough Cut1980 · as Nigel Lawton
• Churchill and the Generals1979 · as Winston Churchill
• Henry VIII1979 · as Cardinal Wolsey
• Agatha1979 · as Kenward
• The Thirty Nine Steps1978 · as Porton
• News from Nowhere1978 · as William Morris
• The Devil's Advocate1977 · as Father Anselmo
• Joseph Andrews1977 · as Mr. Tow-Wouse
• Hedda1975 · as Brack
• The After Dinner Game1975 · as Mark Childers
• Soft Beds, Hard Battles1974
• The Day of the Jackal1973 · as Commissioner Berthier
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days1973 · as Prof. Gebhardt
• Horatio Bottomley1972 · as Horatio Bottomley
• Nicholas and Alexandra1971 · as Dr. Botkin
• Edward II1970 · as Young Mortimer
• The Tragedy of King Richard II1970 · as Henry Bolingbroke
• The Looking Glass War1970 · as Taylor
• Twisted Nerve1968 · as Superintendant Dakin
• The Deadly Affair1967 · as Matrvis (in Edward II)
• The Book of Water— · as Geiser

All TV Shows (70)

• Gentleman Jack2019 · as Jeremy Lister
• Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators2018 · as Johnny Falstaff
• Great Canal Journeys2014 · as Self
• Inside No. 92014 · as Andrew
• Toast of London2013
• Last Tango in Halifax2012 · as Ted
• Titanic2012 · as Lord Pirrie
• Exile2011 · as Metzler
• Going Postal2010 · as Ridcully
• A Room with a View2008 · as Reverend Eager
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show2007 · as Self
• Lewis2007 · as Donald Terry
• Not Going Out2006 · as Geoffrey Adams
• Bleak House2005 · as Sir Leicester Dedlock
• Colditz2005 · as Bunny Warren
• London2004 · as Henry Mayhew
• The Alan Clark Diaries2004 · as Sir Robert Armstrong
• New Tricks2004 · as Professor Mears
• Looking for Victoria2003 · as Thomas Creevey
• Dickens2002 · as John Dickens
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries2002 · as Andy Maiden
• Bedtime2001 · as Andrew Oldfield
• Waking the Dead2001 · as Joe Doyle
• Murder in Mind2001 · as Dr. William Collins
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Marcus Devere
• Over Here1996 · as Narrator
• Bramwell1995 · as Colonel Kindersley
• Smokescreen1994 · as Frank Sheringham
• Goodnight Sweetheart1993
• Framed1992 · as DCI Jimmy McKinnes
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales1992 · as Prospero (voice)
• Murder Most Horrid1991 · as Old Doctor Adams
• Performance1991 · as Gloucester
• Screen One1989 · as Derek Blore
• Screen One1989 · as Geoffrey Cowper
• Campion1989 · as William Faraday
• Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Reverend Cottrell
• Lenin... The Train1988 · as Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus
• After Henry1988 · as Nigel
• The Monocled Mutineer1986
• A Very Peculiar Practice1986 · as Professor Furie
• Tender Is the Night1985 · as Mr. Morris
• Theatre Night1985 · as Doctor Rance
• Theatre Night1985 · as David Roberts
• Theatre Night1985 · as Ewbank
• Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye1985 · as Rex Fortescue
• Brass1983 · as Bradley Hardacre
• Brass1983 · as Winston Churchill
• Masada1981 · as Emperor Vespasian
• Friday Night, Saturday Morning1979
• Crime and Punishment1979 · as Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin
• Tales of the Unexpected1979 · as Albert Taylor
• An Audience with...1978 · as Self
• Hard Times1977 · as Josiah Bounderby
• Edward the Seventh1975 · as Albert Edward 'Bertie'
• Edward the Seventh1975 · as Edward, Prince of Wales
• Edward the Seventh1975 · as King Edward VII
• The Edwardians1972 · as Horatio Bottomley
• Villains1972 · as Benny
• Play for Today1970 · as Mark Childers
• Trapped1967 · as Ossie
• Witch Hunt1967 · as Dr. Howard Agister
• Mystery and Imagination1966 · as Dr Middleton
• Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as Jack Campion
• Theatre 6251964 · as Jan
• Persuasion1960 · as Charles Hayter
• Coronation Street1960 · as Eric Babbage
• No Hiding Place1959
• Theatre Night1957 · as Talky
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Ralph