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Biography

Born to parents who were both actors, Timothy's career began in 1959 when he started working with repertory companies in England. He made his…more

Born

10/20/1934, Bradford, Yorkshire, England

Birth Name

Timothy West

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (14)

Role
- Titanic
  Lord Pirrie
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode One
    3/21/12
- Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
  Mustrum Ridcully
- Masterpiece Theatre
  PW Botha
  - S 39: Ep 17 Endgame
    10/25/09
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Mr. Eager
  - S 37: Ep 16 A Room with a View
    4/13/08
- Bleak House
  Sir Leicester Dedlock
  - S 1: Ep 6 Episode 6
    11/11/05
  - S 1: Ep 4 Episode 4
    11/4/05
  - S 1: Ep 3 Episode 3
    11/3/05
- The Alan Clark Diaries
  Sir Robert Armstrong
  - S 1: Ep 6 Leaving Home
    2/19/04
  - S 1: Ep 5 Into the Wilderness
    2/12/04
  - S 1: Ep 4 Defence of the Realm
    2/2/04
  - S 1: Ep 3 Foreign Parts
    1/29/04
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Lady
    1/22/04
  - + 1 More Credits
- Bedtime
  Andrew Oldfield
  - S 3: Ep 3 Boxing Day
    12/17/03
  - S 3: Ep 2 Christmas Day
    12/16/03
  - S 3: Ep 1 Christmas Eve
    12/15/03
  - S 2: Ep 6 Series 2 Episode 6
    9/4/02
  - S 2: Ep 5 Series 2 Episode 5
    9/3/02
  - + 10 More Credits
- Brass
  Bradley Hardacre
  - S 3: Ep 6 Their Finest Half Hour
    5/28/90
  - S 3: Ep 5 Bradley Does his Bit
    5/21/90
  - S 3: Ep 4 Bradley Holds His Own
    5/14/90
  - S 3: Ep 3 Bradley Gets on Top
    5/7/90
  - S 3: Ep 2 Bradley Sticks it Out
    4/30/90
  - + 27 More Credits
- Edward the King
  Edward VII
  - S 1: Ep 13 Good Old Teddy
    7/1/75
- Edward the King
  King Edward VII
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Peacemaker
    6/17/75
  - S 1: Ep 11 King at Last
    6/10/75
- Edward the King
  Prince of Wales
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Years of Waiting
    6/3/75
  - S 1: Ep 9 Scandal
    5/27/75
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Royal Quadrille
    5/20/75
- Edward the King
  The Prince of Wales
  - S 1: Ep 7 Dearest Prince
    5/13/75
  - S 1: Ep 6 The Invisible Queen
    5/6/75
- Edward the King
  Bertie
  - S 1: Ep 5 A Hundred Thousand Welcomes
    4/29/75
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
  Additinoal Voices
  - S 1: Ep 1 Macbeth
Recurring Role (5)

Role
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Sir Leicester Dedlock
  - S 35: Ep 11 Bleak House (6)
    2/26/06
  - S 35: Ep 10 Bleak House (5)
    2/19/06
  - S 35: Ep 9 Bleak House (4)
    2/12/06
  - S 35: Ep 8 Bleak House (3)
    2/5/06
  - S 35: Ep 7 Bleak House (2)
    1/29/06
  - + 1 More Credits
- Bleak House
  Sir Leicester Dedlock
  - S 1: Ep 15 Episode 15
    12/16/05
  - S 1: Ep 14 Episode 14
    12/15/05
  - S 1: Ep 13 Episode 13
    12/9/05
  - S 1: Ep 12 Episode 12
    12/8/05
  - S 1: Ep 11 Episode 11
    12/2/05
  - + 4 More Credits
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Porfiry Petrovich
  - S 10: Ep 1 Crime and Punishment (1)
    9/28/80
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Dr. Baker
  - S 26: Ep 16 Rebecca (1)
- Big Breadwinner Hog
  Lennox
  - S 1: Ep 8 A Credit to Us All
    5/30/69
  - S 1: Ep 7 Hogarth Cannot Rest on His Laurels
    5/23/69
  - S 1: Ep 6 Self-Discipline Is Its Own Reward
    5/16/69
  - S 1: Ep 5 Hogarth Accepts Responsibility
    5/9/69
  - S 1: Ep 4 Immature, Unsatisfactory Work…
    5/2/69
  - + 3 More Credits
Guest Star (33)

Role
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
  Reverend Cottrell
  - S 12: Ep 2 Hallowe'en Party
    10/27/10
- Lewis
  Donald Terry
  - S 4: Ep 3 Your Sudden Death Question
    5/16/10
- The Andrew Marr Show
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 18 20th January, 2008
    1/20/08
  - S 1: Ep 27 26th March, 2006
    3/26/06
- New Tricks
  Professor Mears
  - S 2: Ep 8 Series 2, Episode 8
    6/27/05
- Essential Poems
  Reader of The Night Before Christmas by Henry Livingstone Part 1
  - S 1: Ep 6 Essential Poems For Christmas
    12/23/04
- Essential Poems
  First reader of The Journey of The Magi by T.S.Eliot
  - S 1: Ep 6 Essential Poems For Christmas
    12/23/04
- Bremner, Bird and Fortune
  Unknown
  - S 6: Ep 1 6-1
    9/26/04
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  Andy Maiden
  - S 3: Ep 1 In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
    3/4/04
- Essential Poems
  Reader
  - S 2: Ep 1 Essential Poems For Britain
    10/9/03
- Essential Poems
  Reader of Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
  - S 1: Ep 5 Love in a Life
    2/18/03
- Murder in Mind
  Dr William Collins
  - S 1: Ep 4 Mercy
    5/13/01
- Midsomer Murders
  Marcus Devere
  - S 3: Ep 3 Judgement Day
    1/29/00
- Funny Women
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 1 Prunella Scales
    6/24/98
- Bramwell
  Colonel Kindersley
  - S 4: Ep 1 Our Brave Boys (120 mins.)
    6/15/98
- Goodnight Sweetheart
  Tufty McDuff
  - S 5: Ep 7 ... But We Think You Have to Go (2)
    4/6/98
  - S 5: Ep 6 We Don't Want to Lose You ... (1)
    3/30/98
- Heartbreak High
  Alexander
  - S 1: Ep 35 Episode 35
    10/19/94
- Murder Most Horrid
  Dr. Adams
  - S 2: Ep 3 A Severe Case of Death
    3/17/94
- Pebble Mill
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 40 Episode 40
    12/6/91
- After Henry
  Nigel
  - S 2: Ep 10 Upstagers
    3/21/89
- Campion
  William Faraday
  - S 1: Ep 4 Police at the Funeral, Part 2
    2/12/89
  - S 1: Ep 3 Police at the Funeral, Part 1
    2/5/89
- A Very Peculiar Practice
  John Furie
  - S 1: Ep 3 Wives of Great Men
    6/4/86
- Miss Marple
  Rex Fortescue
  - S 2: Ep 6 A Pocketful of Rye, Part One
    3/7/85
- Tales of the Unexpected
  Albert Taylor
  - S 2: Ep 1 Royal Jelly
    3/1/80
- BBC Television Shakespeare
  Wolsey
  - S 1: Ep 6 King Henry the Eighth
    2/25/79
- Play for Today
  Guest Star
  - S 5: Ep 9 The After Dinner Game
    1/16/75
- Omnibus (UK)
  Narrator
  - S 7: Ep 34 It's Fantastic, It's Futuristic, It's Fatalistic, It's Science Fiction
    12/16/73
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Dr. Baker
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969)
  Sam Grimes
  - S 1: Ep 24 Vendetta for a Dead Man
    2/27/70
- Mystery and Imagination
  Dr. Middleton
  - S 3: Ep 6 Feet Foremost
    6/29/68
- Thirty-Minute Theatre
  Jack Campion
  - S 2: Ep 23 Two and Two Are Twenty-Two
    3/22/67
- Public Eye
  Policeman
  - S 2: Ep 5 You Can Keep the Medal
    7/30/66
- Theatre 625
  Jan
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Seekers #1 The Heretics
    5/3/64
- No Hiding Place
  Constable
  - S 4: Ep 13 The Skeleton Wore Boots
    7/31/62

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- Worked for a short time at Partridge & Cooper, leading purveyors of office furniture in Holborn, where he looked after the showroom. It was mainly a mail order business.
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- Born in the town of Bradford.
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- Timothy West was a former sound engineer for Abbey Road Records in London.
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- TW "It's a mistake to think the theatre suddenly opened its doors to a whole new audience. It just bowed to a growing need".
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