Biography
Timothy Lancaster West, CBE was an English film, stage, presenter and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Big Snow of '47
2024
as Self
Houses buried under snow. Rivers frozen solid. World War II bombers dropping bread to isolated villages. How did Brits survive the snowiest winter eve...
Bring Back My Bonnie
2022
as Roger
An elderly man with dementia continues to speak with his late wife to keep her alive. When his daughter sees his decline she tries her best to make hi...
Night of the Broken
2022
as Adolf Hitler
In 1965, a Jewish doctor, Gertrude Rosen, is called to a remote care home in England to help identify and treat a dying patient. As Gertrude slowly wi...
We the Kings
2018
as Victor
Jack, on the run for attempted murder, hides in the house of a deaf and mute man. A power struggle forms between the two.
Delirium
2017
as College Bursar
International composer Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life: to deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Ce...
The Vote
2015
as Fred Norris
On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers....
Run For Your Wife
2012
as Man in Pub
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately...
Idle-Hands
2010
as Spam
Catastrophe is the fruit of boredom when a man with too much time on his hands becomes involved in an unexpected surprise.
Endgame
2009
as P.W. Botha
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African Nat...
A Room with a View
2007
as Mr Eager
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...
Colditz
2005
as Bunny Warren
While World War II allied officer Jack Rowe is held prisoner in Germany's notorious Colditz castle, he recruits a band of fellow escape artists in th...
Beyond Borders
2003
as Lawrence Bauford
Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade...
Martin Luther
2003
as Martin Luther
Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man'...
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2003
as Dymas (voice)
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retriev...
Villa Des Roses
2002
as Hugh Burrell
In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she...
Station Jim
2001
as Sir Christopher Ellis
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriende...
Iris
2001
as Older Maurice
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheime...
The Fourth Angel
2001
as Jones
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terroris...
102 Dalmatians
2000
as Judge
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely allia...
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
as Cauchon
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberat...
EverAfter
1998
as King Francis
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a ...
King Lear
1998
as Gloucester
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Animated Epics: Beowulf
1998
as Hrothgar ( voice )
Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuri...
The Place of the Dead
1997
as Chairman of the Inquiry
It was one of the last unexplored places on Earth; a terrifyingly deep gully in the heart of the Borneo jungle. It was the ultimate challenge – to cli...
Eleven Men Against Eleven
1995
as Sir Bob Luckton
A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football...
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
1990
as Col. Wilfred Wood
Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Survival of the Fittest
1990
as Geoffrey Cowper
Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to...
Lenin: The Train
1990
as Parvus
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and...
Dirty Beasts
1990
as Narrator
Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things,...
Revolting Rhymes
1990
as Narrator
Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
Beecham
1990
as Sir Thomas Beecham
1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. With T...
Blore M.P.
1989
as Derek Blore MP
Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an ...
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Charles Clutterbuck
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer
Consuming Passions
1988
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless m...
When We Are Married
1987
as Councillor Albert Parker
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth ...
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
1987
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik
Cry Freedom
1987
as Capt. De Wet
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
What the Butler Saw
1987
as Dr Rance
White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC produ...
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
1986
as Dr John Bodkin Adams
In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested for murdering one of his ...
Florence Nightingale
1985
as Russell
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession ...
Oliver Twist
1982
as Mr. Bumble
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Murder Is Easy
1982
as Lord Gordon Easterfield
American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial ki...
Rough Cut
1980
as Nigel Lawton
Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels.
Churchill and the Generals
1979
as Winston Churchill
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Henry VIII
1979
as Cardinal Wolsey
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powe...
Agatha
1979
as Kenward
England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
as Porton
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of...
News from Nowhere
1978
as William Morris
In 1880, William Morris travels with his family and friends, as they navigate the Thames en-route to Oxford. Their journey is punctuated by champagne ...
The Devil's Advocate
1977
as Father Anselmo
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canoni...
Joseph Andrews
1977
as Mr. Tow-Wouse
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...
Hedda
1975
as Brack
Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provid...
The After Dinner Game
1975
as Mark Childers
Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor fro...
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Commissioner Berthier
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Prof. Gebhardt
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...
Horatio Bottomley
1972
as Horatio Bottomley
Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public ...
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Dr. Botkin
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Edward II
1970
as Young Mortimer
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
The Tragedy of King Richard II
1970
as Henry Bolingbroke
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfa...
The Looking Glass War
1970
as Taylor
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate ...
Twisted Nerve
1968
as Superintendant Dakin
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he re...
The Deadly Affair
1967
as Matrvis (in Edward II)
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife...
The Book of Water
N/A
as Geiser
The Book of Water is a chamber music theatre project based upon the novella Man in the Holocene by Swiss author Max Frisch. The work centres around th...