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Acting

Timothy West

Career: Active from 1967 to 2022, busiest in 1990 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 33
top three billing

Average score: 66/100

Highest rated: Gentleman Jack
83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 66 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Timothy West Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.3, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2
Scare
1.5, average 2.6
Uncanny
1.5, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 7
Political Intrigue 5
Historical Drama 4
Character Study 4
Period Piece 3
Social Commentary 3
WWII Drama 2
Biographical 2
European History 2
Biographical Drama 2
Victorian Era 2
Family Tragedy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

134

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

The Book of Water

as Geiser

2020s

3 titles

20 Years of Not Going Out

as Geoffrey (archive footage)

Night of the Broken

as Adolf Hitler

Bring Back My Bonnie

as Roger

2010s

16 titles · average score 71

Gentleman Jack

83

TV show · as Jeremy Lister

Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes

72

TV show · as Pte. Charles Godfrey

We the Kings

77

as Victor

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

73

TV show · as Johnny Falstaff

Delirium

as College Bursar

The Vote

as Fred Norris

Inside No. 9

92

TV show · as Andrew

Toast of London

82

TV show

Last Tango in Halifax

83

TV show · as Ted

Titanic

47

TV show · as Lord Pirrie

Going Postal 2in1

80

as Ridcully

Going Postal

74

TV show · as Ridcully

2000s

25 titles · average score 65

Lewis

80

TV show · as Donald Terry

Not Going Out

79

TV show · as Geoffrey Adams

Colditz

67

as Bunny Warren

Colditz

64

TV show · as Bunny Warren

New Tricks

83

TV show · as Professor Mears

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

56

as Dymas (voice)

Martin Luther

67

as Martin Luther

Beyond Borders

43

as Lawrence Bauford

Bedtime

TV show · as Andrew Oldfield

Iris

71

as Older Maurice

The Fourth Angel

44

as Jones

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Joe Doyle

1990s

22 titles · average score 68

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

52

as Cauchon

EverAfter

77

as King Francis

Animated Epics: Beowulf

66

as Hrothgar ( voice )

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Marcus Devere

Cuts

as Lord Mellow

TV show · as Narrator

Smokescreen

TV show · as Frank Sheringham

The Tempest

as Prospero

Goodnight Sweetheart

73

TV show · as Tufty McDuff

Framed

67

TV show · as DCI Jimmy McKinnes

as Sir Thomas Beecham

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

as Col. Wilfred Wood

1980s

29 titles · average score 69

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Reverend Cottrell

Blore M.P.

as Derek Blore MP

Lenin... The Train

69

TV show · as Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus

Lenin: The Train

66

as Parvus

What the Butler Saw

as Dr Rance

When We Are Married

as Councillor Albert Parker

The Monocled Mutineer

79

TV show

The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

as Dr John Bodkin Adams

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye

74

TV show · as Rex Fortescue

Florence Nightingale

62

as William Russell

Oliver Twist

65

as Mr. Bumble

Rough Cut

47

as Nigel Lawton

1970s

25 titles · average score 63

Churchill and the Generals

as Winston Churchill

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Albert Taylor

News from Nowhere

as William Morris

Hard Times

TV show · as Josiah Bounderby

The Devil's Advocate

as Father Anselmo

Hedda

52

as Brack

The After Dinner Game

as Mark Childers

The Day of the Jackal

82

as Commissioner Berthier

Horatio Bottomley

as Horatio Bottomley

Edward II

as Young Mortimer

The Tragedy of King Richard II

as Henry Bolingbroke

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Mark Childers

1960s

10 titles · average score 62

Big Breadwinner Hog

TV show · as Lennox

Twisted Nerve

67

as Superintendant Dakin

TV show · as Dr. Howard Agister

The Deadly Affair

64

as Matrvis (in Edward II)

TV show · as Ossie

Mystery and Imagination

TV show · as Dr Middleton

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Jack Campion

Theatre 625

TV show · as Jan

Coronation Street

54

TV show · as Eric Babbage

Persuasion

TV show · as Charles Hayter

1950s

3 titles · average score 68

No Hiding Place

TV show

Theatre Night

TV show · as Talky

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Ralph