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Acting

Samuel West

Career: Active from 1989 to 2026, busiest in 2012 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 49
top three billing

Average score: 68/100

Highest rated: All Creatures Great & Small - The Perfect Christmas
88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 61 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Samuel West Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.7, average 5.4
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4
Absurdist Humor
1.1, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 7
Social Commentary 5
Period Piece 4
Historical Documentary 4
British History 4
Biographical 4
Character-Driven 4
World War II 3
Moral Dilemmas 3
Historical Drama 2
British Drama 2
Character Study 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

122

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

The Book of Water

as Narrator/Geiser

2020s

15 titles · average score 79

Sam & Ade Go Birding

TV show

All Creatures Great & Small - Comfort and Joy

79

as Siegfried Farnon

All Creatures Great & Small - All God's Creatures

86

as Siegfried Farnon

All Creatures Great & Small - On a Wing and a Prayer

84

as Siegfried Farnon

The Midwich Cuckoos

59

TV show · as Bernard Westcott

Slow Horses

85

TV show · as Peter Judd

The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour

as Master of Ceremonies

All Creatures Great & Small - Merry Bloody Christmas

86

as Siegfried Farnon

All Creatures Great & Small - The Perfect Christmas

88

as Siegfried Farnon

All Creatures Great & Small

87

TV show · as Siegfried Farnon

Gatecrash

50

as Policeman

The Gentlemen

70

as Lord Pressfield

2010s

38 titles · average score 68

On Chesil Beach

62

as Geoffrey Ponting

Spying on the Royals

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The Crown

82

TV show · as Anthony Blunt

The Frankenstein Chronicles

72

TV show · as Sir William Chester

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

81

TV show · as Sir Walter Pole

Inside the Court of Henry VIII

as Narrator

Fleming

65

TV show · as Rear Admiral John Godfrey

Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

TV show · as Narrator

Secrets of Underground London

69

as Narrator

Mr Selfridge

68

TV show · as Frank Edwards

Hyde Park on Hudson

48

as Bertie

Eternal Law

69

TV show · as Zak Gist

2000s

28 titles · average score 67

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

67

as Ted Heath

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

68

TV show · as narrator

Random Quest

65

as Colin

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

80

TV show · as Narrator

Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich

as Narrator (voice)

Ring of the Nibelungs

67

TV show · as Gunther

Ring of the Nibelungs

63

as Gunther

Van Helsing

45

as Dr. Victor Frankenstein

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

60

as Pongo (voice)

Cambridge Spies

69

TV show · as Anthony Blunt

The Private Life of a Masterpiece

72

TV show · as Narrator

Iris

71

as Young Maurice

1990s

32 titles · average score 68

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

81

as Major Edrington

Battle of the Sexes - In the Animal World

TV show · as Narrator

Notting Hill

75

as Anna's Co-Star

Rupert's Land

as Rupert McKay

The Ripper

52

as Prince Albert Victor Edward

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Jeremy Thacker / James Oswood

TV show · as Archie Bunting

Carrington

63

as Gerald Brenan

A Breed of Heroes

as Lt. Charles Thoroughgood

Voices in the Garden

as Mark

The Maitlands

as Jack Maitland

Howards End

83

as Leonard Bast

1980s

7 titles · average score 70

Reunion

61

as Count Konradin von Lohenburg

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Dr Constantine

Screen One

TV show · as Lt. Charles Thoroughgood

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

65

as King Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia

74

TV show · as King Caspian

Frankie and Johnnie

as Johnnie Mallett

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Mark

1970s

1 title · average score 79

NOVA

79

TV show · as Humphry Davy