Timothy West Biography
Timothy West (Timothy Lancaster West)”, CBE is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.
Apart from many classical theatre performances, he has appeared frequently on television, including spells in both Coronation Street as Eric Babbage and Stan Carter in EastEnders, and also in Not Going Out, as the original Geoffrey Adams.
Timothy West Actor | Career
West worked as an office furniture salesman and as a recording technician, before he became an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956. In 1959, he wrote and produced a short audio play, This Gun That I Have in My Right Hand Is Loaded, satirizing typical mistakes of radio drama, including over-explanatory dialogue and misuse of sound cues.
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West played repertory seasons in Newquay, Hull, Northampton, Worthing and Salisbury before making his London debut at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 in the farce Caught Napping. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for three seasons: the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season (Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come), the 1964 ‘Dirty Plays’ season (Victor, the premiere production of Marat/Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come) and the 1965 season at Stratford and later at the Aldwych Theatre appearing in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Peter Hall’s production of The Government Inspector, in a company which included Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Janet Suzman, Paul Rogers, Ian Richardson, Glenda Jackson and Peter McEnery.
West has portrayed Macbeth twice, Uncle Vanya twice, Solness in The Master Builder twice and King Lear four times: in 1971 (aged 36) for Prospect Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival; on a worldwide tour in 1991 in Dublin for Second Age; in 2003 for English Touring Theatre, on tour in the UK and at the Old Vic; and in 2016 at the Bristol Old Vic.
Timothy West Age
West was born on October 20, 1934, in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He is 85 years old as of October 2019.
Timothy West Children | Family
West was born and raised by his parents Lockwood West and Olive Carleton-Crowe in Bradford, Yorkshire. He is the only child to his parents and is the grandchild of Henry Cope West and Mildred West.
Timothy West Spouse | Wife | Jacqueline Boyer Timothy West
West was first married to Jacqueline Boyer from 1956 to 1961 when they divorced. They have one daughter together, Juliet West.
Prunella Scales Joseph West | Wife | Pru Scales
After his divorce, he married actress Prunella Scales in 1963. They have two children together Samuel West and Joseph West.
Tim and Pru Great Canal Journeys
Tim West and Pru Scales have a 34 episodes documentary that has been airing from 2014 to June 2019. In this documentary, they embark on spectacular canal journeys across Britain and abroad. Through the many episodes, they share a passion they have enjoyed for decades as they explore a variety of canals.
Juliet West Timothy West | Children
Juliet West is the daughter of West first marriage with Jacqueline Boyer.
Prunella Scales Alzheimer’s
Prunella was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s which affects her ability to remember the lines. She has to recite a bit longer due to the disease.
Prunella Scales Joseph West | Children
Tim and Pru West have two children together Samuel West and Joseph West.
Timothy West Education
West studied at the John Lyon School, Harrow on the Hill, at Bristol Grammar School, where he was a classmate of Julian Glover, and at Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster).
Timothy West Movies and TV Shows
- Andy Maiden 1989 – 2005
- Andy Maiden 2006
- Berthier 1973
- Capt. de Wet 1987
- Cauchon 1999
- Chaplain 1975
- Churchill
- Donald Terry 2010
- Dr Botkin 1971
- Dr Rees 1988
- Dymas 2003
- Edward VII
- Elder Dr Adams
- Hrothgar 2000
- Jeremy Lister
- Jeremy Lister 2019
- John Dickens 2003
- Josiah Bounderby
- Judge 2000
- Kenward 1979
- King Francis 1998
- Lawrence Bauford 2003
- Lord Leicester Dedlock 2005
- Marcus Devere 2001
- Matrevis 1966
- Mr Baker 1997
- Nigel
- Nigel Lawton 1980
- Porton 1978
- Prof. Gebhardt 1973
- Superintendent Dakin 1969
- Taylor 1969
- Tesman 1975
- Tufty McDuff 2005
- Vaclav 1976
- Vespasian
- Vespasian 1981
- William 2004
- Winston Churchill 1995
- But We Think You Have to Go — 2005
- 102 Dalmatians (Movie)
- A Room With a View — 2008
- A Severe Case of Death
- Affairs of the Heart — 2011
- After Henry (TV Show)
- Agatha (Movie)
- Animated Epics (TV Show)
- Are You Still Talking? — 2019
- Beowulf — 2000
- Beyond Borders (Movie)
- Bleak House (Movie)
- Bleak House (TV Show)
- Call to Arms — 2011
- Campion (TV Show)
- Campion: Police at the Funeral — 1989
- Colditz (TV Show)
- Consuming Passions (Movie)
- Cry Freedom (Movie)
- Dickens (TV Show)
- Edward the King (TV Show)
- Endgame — 2009
- Ever After (Movie)
- Exile (TV Show)
- Gentleman Jack (TV Show)
- Goodnight Sweetheart (TV Show)
- Great Canal Journeys (TV Show)
- Hard Times (TV Show)
- Hedda (Movie)
- Hiroshima (Movie)
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days (Movie)
- I Was Just Passing — 2019
- In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner — 2006
- Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece (TV Show)
- Inspector Lynley: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner — 2005
- Judgement Day — 2001
- Last Bastion (TV Show)
- Marjorie and Men (TV Show)
- Masada (TV Show)
- Masada (TV Show)
- Masterpiece (TV Show)
- Midsomer Murders (TV Show)
- Murder Most Horrid (TV Show)
- Mystery! (TV Show)
- Nicholas And Alexandra (Movie)
- Oh Is That What You Call It? — 2019
- Operation Daybreak (Movie)
- Poirot: Hallowe’en Party — 2011
- Police at the Funeral — 2004
- Poor Little Buttercup — 2000
- Rebecca (Movie)
- Rough Cut (Movie)
- Secret Love — 2000
- Secrets — 2003
- Secrets; Blazing Away; Terror to the End — 2003
- Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas (Movie)
- Taking the Waters — 2000
- The Day Of The Jackal (Movie)
- The Deadly Affair (Movie)
- The Greatest Stories Ever Told — 2010
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV Show)
- The Legend — 2010
- The Looking Glass War (Movie)
- The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc (Movie)
- The Story of Costume Drama: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (TV Show)
- The Story of the Costume Drama (TV Show)
- The Thirty-Nine Steps (Movie)
- Title Role Year
- Twisted Nerve (Movie)
- Undercovers Hero (Movie)
- Upstagers
- We Don’t Want to Lose You… — 2005
- Your Sudden Death Question — 2010
Timothy West Theater
- King Lear, as Lear, Dir Tom Morris, Bristol Old Vic, 2016
- The Vote by James Graham, Donmar Warehouse and More4, 2015
- The Handyman by Ronald Harwood, as Romka, Dir Joe Harmston, UK tour, 2012
- Uncle Vanya, as Sererbryakov, Dir Jeremy Herrin, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2012
- The Winslow Boy, as Arthur Winslow, Dir Stephen Unwin, Rose Theatre, Kingston and UK tour, 2009
- Romany Wood, as Narrator, Theatre Severn, Shropshire, 2009
- The Lover/The Collection, Dir Jamie Lloyd, Comedy Theatre, London, 2008
- Opening of St Pancras International, as William Henry Barlow, Tuesday 6 November 2007
- Coriolanus as Menenius, Dir Gregory Doran, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, Newcastle, Spain and USA, 2007
- A Number by Caryl Churchill as Salter, with Samuel West as B1/B2/Michael Black, Dir Jonathan Munby, Crucible Theatre Studio, 2006. Revived in 2010 at the Chocolate Factory and 2011 at the Fugard Theatre, Cape Town.
- The Old Country by Alan Bennett, Dir Stephen Unwin, Trafalgar Studios, 2006
- King Lear, as Lear, Dir Stephen Unwin, UK tour with English Touring Theatre, 2002
- The Master Builder, as Solness, Dir Stephen Unwin, UK tour, 1999
- King Lear, as Gloucester, Dir Richard Eyre, Greece, Turkey, and the National Theatre, 1997
- Henry IV Part One and Part Two, as Falstaff, with Samuel West as Hal, Dir Stephen Unwin, UK tour and the Old Vic Theatre, 1996
- Twelve Angry Men, Dir Harold Pinter, Bristol Old Vic, and Comedy Theatre, 1996
- Macbeth, as Macbeth, Dir Helena Kaut-Howson, Theatr Clwyd, 1994
- Death of a Salesman, as Willy Loman, Dir Janet Suzman, Theatr Clwyd, 1993
- King Lear as Lear, Dir Alan Stanford, Tivoli Theatre, Dublin, 1992
- Long Day’s Journey into Night, with Prunella Scales, Dir Howard Davies, Bristol Old Vic, UK Tour, and the National Theatre, 1991
- Uncle Vanya, as Vanya, Dir Paul Unwin, Bristol Old Vic, 1990
- The Master Builder, as Solness, Dir Paul Unwin, Bristol Old Vic, 1989
- When We Are Married, with Prunella Scales, Dir Ronald Eyre, Whitehall Theatre, 1985
- Masterclass by David Pownall, as Stalin, Dir Justin Greene, Leicester Haymarket, and the Old Vic Theatre, 1984
- Uncle Vanya, as Vanya, Dir Prunella Scales, Playhouse, Perth, Western Australia, 1982
- The Merchant of Venice as Shylock, International tour in association with the British Council and at the Old Vic Theatre, 1980
- Beecham, by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin, as Thomas Beecham, Apollo Theatre, London, 1980
- The Homecoming, as Max, Garrick Theatre, Dir Kevin Billington, 1978.
- Hamlet, as Claudius, with Derek Jacobi as Hamlet, Dir Toby Robertson, Edinburgh Festival, International tour, and the Old Vic Theatre, 1977
- Othello, as Iago, Dir Richard Eyre, Nottingham Playhouse, 1976
- Hedda Gabler, as Judge Brack, Dir Trevor Nunn, with Glenda Jackson, RSC, international tour and Aldwych Theatre, 1975
- Macbeth, as Macbeth, Gardner Centre, Brighton, Dir John David, 1974
- Love’s Labour’s Lost, as Holofernes, Aldwych Theatre, London, McBain/Archer, Prospect Theatre Company, June 1972
- King Lear as Lear, Prospect Theatre Company, Dir Toby Robertson, Edinburgh Festival and UK tour, 1971. The production visited Australia in 1972
- Exiles, Dir Harold Pinter. Mermaid Theatre, 1970
- Richard II and Edward II, as Bolingbroke and Young Mortimer, with Ian McKellen as the kings, Prospect Theatre Company, Edinburgh Festival, International tour and Piccadilly Theatre, Dir Richard Cottrell/Toby Robertson, 1969
- The Tempest, as Prospero, Prospect Productions, Dir Toby Robertson, 1966
- “Madam”, said Dr Johnson, Prospect Productions, Dir Toby Robertson, 1966
- Marat/Sade, RSC, Dir Peter Brook, 1964
- Afore Night Come, RSC, Arts Theatre, 1962. Revived at the Aldwych Theatre, 1964
- Gentle Jack, Theatre Royal, Brighton, and the Queen’s Theatre, London, 1963
- Caught Napping, Piccadilly Theatre, 1959
Timothy West Radio
- Cabin Pressure by John Finnemore, as Gordon Shappey, BBC Radio 4, 2011
- Seasons by Gareth Parker, as Harold. Independent drama by the Wireless Theatre Company, 2010
- The Man on the Heath: Johnson and Boswell Investigate by David Noakes, as Doctor Johnson, Saturday Play on BBC Radio 4, 2005
- Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, as Narrator, 2004
- Rumpole of the Bailey, as Rumpole, in sixteen 45-minute plays, 2003–2012. In this series, his wife in real life played his fictional wife.
- Hecuba by Euripides, as Polymestor, 2001
- Groupie by Arnold Wesker, 2001
- Dorothy, a Manager’s Wife by Peter Tinniswood, 2000
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, as Willy Loman, 1993
- The Gibson by Bruce Bedford, 1992
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett, Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4, 1992
- Crisp and Even Brightly by Alick Rowe, as ‘Generally well-intentioned King Wenceslas’, Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4, 1987
- I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves, as Claudius, produced by Glyn Dearman, 1985
- With a Whimper to the Grave by Wally K. Daly, as 642, 1984
- Actors, or Playing for Real by Lope de Vega, as Emperor Diocletian, BBC Radio 3, 1983
- Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde, Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4, 1982
- Operation Lightning Pegasus by Alick Rowe, as Agamemnon, Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4, 1981
- Sherlock Holmes v. Dracula by Loren D. Estleman, as Doctor Watson, dramatized and directed by Glyn Dearman, Saturday Night Theatre, BBC Radio 4, 1981
- The Monument by David Cregan, as Dr James Short, BBC Radio 3, 1978
- Where Are They Now? by Tom Stoppard, as an Old Boy, 1971
- If You’re Glad, I’ll be Frank by Tom Stoppard, as Frank, 1966
- Macbeth, as the Porter, BBC Third Programme, 1966. Repeated on BBC Radio 4 in 1967 and BBC 7 in 2007
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