Actor and director, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He was educated in London, entered the profession as assistant stage manager at Wimbledon (1956), and made his London debut in 1959. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (19646), and with the prospect Theatre Company (196672), where he also directed, and thereafter played a wide variety of roles in the provinces, the West End, and abroad. His television appearances include Churchill and the Generals (1979), The Monocled Mutineer (1986), Survival of the Fittest (1990), Cuts (1995), and Bleak House (2005); his films include The Day of the Jackal (1972), Cry Freedom (1986), Consuming Passions (1988), and The Place of the Dead (1996). He married actress Prunella Scales in 1963 and is the father of the actor Sam West.
Timothy West CBE (born October 20, 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor.
Life and career
West's craggy looks ensured a career as a character actor rather than a leading man.
Having spent years as a familiar face who never quite became a household name, his big chance came with the major television series, Edward the Seventh (1975), in which he played the title role and his real-life sons, Samuel and Joseph, played the sons of King Edward VII as children.
In 2001, West played the older Maurice in Iris, while his actor son, Samuel West, played young Maurice.
In 2002 he made a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
In 2004, he toured Australia with the Carl Rosa Company as Director of the production of HMS Pinafore, also singing the role of Sir Joseph Porter.
West has also appeared as the presenter for Midlands (Central TV) Waterworld.
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