1. Timothy Lancaster West was an English actor with a long and varied career across theatre, film, and television.
37 Facts About Timothy West
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Timothy West began acting in repertory theatres in the 1950s before making his London stage debut in 1959 moving on to three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1960s.
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In 1978, Timothy West was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival for his performance in The Homecoming.
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Timothy West appeared in major films such as Nicholas and Alexandra, The Day of the Jackal, and The Thirty Nine Steps.
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Timothy West was known for his collaborations with his second wife, actress Prunella Scales, in both acting and personal projects.
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Timothy Lancaster West was born on 20 October 1934 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, the only son of Olive and actor Lockwood West.
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Timothy West had a sister Patricia who was five years younger than he.
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Timothy West worked as an office furniture salesman and as a recording technician before becoming an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956.
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Timothy 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.
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Timothy West played Macbeth twice, Uncle Vanya twice, Solness in The Master Builder twice and King Lear four times: in 1971 for the Prospect Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival; on a worldwide tour in 1991 in Dublin for Second Age; in 2003 for the English Touring Theatre, on tour in the UK and at the Old Vic; and in 2016 at the Bristol Old Vic.
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In Richard Eyre's Iris he played Maurice and his son Samuel Timothy West played Maurice as a young man.
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Timothy West starred as patriarch Bradley Hardacre in Granada TV's satirical Northern super-soap Brass over three seasons.
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Timothy West appeared in the series Miss Marple in 1985 and made an appearance as Professor Furie in A Very Peculiar Practice in 1986.
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In 1989, Timothy West played Nigel in the Thames Television sitcom After Henry alongside his real-life wife, Prunella Scales, who played Sarah France.
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Timothy West reprised the role in two episodes of series three; Geoffrey Whitehead played the role in later seasons.
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In February 2013, Timothy West joined the cast of ITV soap Coronation Street, playing Eric Babbage.
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Timothy West joined the cast of EastEnders in 2013, playing Stan Carter from January 2014.
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Timothy West filmed his final scenes for EastEnders in February 2015.
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In 2019, Timothy West played Private Godfrey in Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes, a recreation of three missing episodes of the BBC comedy Dad's Army.
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Timothy West's final acting role was in the penultimate episode of the BBC daytime series Doctors, which was screened the day after his death.
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Timothy West was artistic director of the Forum Theatre, Billingham, in 1973, where he directed We Bombed in New Haven by Joseph Heller, The Oz Obscenity Trial by David Livingstone and The National Health by Peter Nichols.
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Timothy West was co-artistic director of the Prospect Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1980 to 1981, where he directed Trelawny of the 'Wells' and The Merchant of Venice.
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Timothy West was director-in-residence at the University of Western Australia in 1982.
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From 1956 to 1961, Timothy West was married to actress Jacqueline Boyer, with whom he had a daughter.
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Timothy West was an Ambassador of SOS Children's Villages, an international orphan charity providing homes and mothers for orphaned and abandoned children.
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Timothy West was patron of the National Piers Society, a charity dedicated to preserving and promoting seaside piers.
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Timothy West was a Patron of Kids for Kids, helping children living in remote villages of Darfur, Sudan through sustainable projects.
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Timothy West was a supporter of the Talyllyn Railway in mid Wales, the first preserved railway in the world.
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Timothy West visited on a number of occasions, the last being the summer of 2015 to attend the railway's 150th anniversary.
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Timothy West was a patron of the Inland Waterways Association.
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Timothy West was president of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and was president of the Society for Theatre Research.
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Timothy West was patron of London-based drama school Associated Studios.
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In 1984, Timothy West was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
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Timothy West was accepted as a fellow to the Royal Society of Arts in 1992.
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Timothy West was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company in 1962 and took part in over 500 radio broadcasts.
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Timothy West recorded many unabridged audiobooks, including the complete Barchester Chronicles and the complete Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope, and seven of George MacDonald Fraser's The Flashman Papers books.
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Timothy West received four AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration.