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Most Recent Role: Mr. Eager on Masterpiece Theatre
Alias Name(s): Tim West
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Birthday: 10-20-1934
Birth Name: Timothy West
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 debut in the farce Caught Napping. Timothy's first TV role came in 1960 when he took the part of Charles Hayter in an adaptation of Persuasion. A huge number of TV roles followed and in 1975 he won great acclaim for his performance of Edward VII in a TV...

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Masterpiece Theatre
A Room with a View
Sunday 13 April 2008 on PBS

Timothy Spall and his son Rafe Spall appear together for the first time as father and son (as Mr. Emerson and his son George) in a new ITV adaptation by Andrew Davies of E.M. Forster’s novel 'A Room with a View'. This classic drama, set against the backdrop of rural Italy and England in the early...

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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. (edit)
Timothy West was a former sound engineer for Abbey Road Records in London. (edit)
When he was younger, The British Army rejected him for service on medical grounds. (edit)
He has written several books,
I'm Here I Think - Where Are You?

So You Want to be an Actor

A Moment Towards the End of a Play (edit)

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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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Other Appearances

 
Star
Bedtime
Andrew Oldfield
Brass
Bradley Hardacre
Masterpiece Theatre
Mr. Eager
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Additinoal Voices
The Alan Clark Diaries
Sir Robert Armstrong
Recurring Role
Masterpiece Theatre
Dr. Baker
Guest Star
A Very Peculiar Practice
Wives of Great Men
John Furie
BBC Television Shakespeare
King Henry the Eighth
Wolsey
Bramwell
Our Brave Boys (120 mins.)
Colonel Kindersley
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
6-1
Unknown
Campion
Police at the Funeral, Part 2
William Faraday
Campion
Police at the Funeral, Part 1
William Faraday
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9.4
Superb
"One of the all-time greats"
His star always shines from Brass to The Alan Clark Dairies.
Continue » Posted Jul 14, 2006 12:39 pm PST
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