Samuel West

Samuel West

1966-06-19 Hammersmith, London, England, UK 76 Credits

Biography

Samuel West was born on June 19, 1966 in Hammersmith, London, England as Samuel Alexander Joseph West. He is known for his work on Howards End (1992), Van Helsing (2004) and Notting Hill (1999).

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Merchant Ivory

Merchant Ivory

2024

as Self

7.7
Acting

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...

Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour Live Concert

Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour Live Concert

2022

as Master of Ceremonies

7.3
Acting

Tubular Bells, one of the iconic musical works of the 20th century, and the highest selling instrumental album of all time, is approaching its 50th an...

Gatecrash

Gatecrash

2020

as Policeman

5.9
Acting

A dark psychological thriller which follows a couple who find themselves in a hit and run situation, with the evidence suggesting there was no acciden...

The Gentlemen

The Gentlemen

2020

as Lord Pressfield

7.7
Acting

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the busine...

On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach

2018

as Geoffrey Ponting

6.2
Acting

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and f...

Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour

2017

as Sir Anthony Eden

7.4
Acting

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it c...

All the world's a stage

2016

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

An animated adaptation of the famous Shakespeare poem 'All The World's a Stage' narrated by the renowned Shakespeare actor and director Samuel West.

Suffragette

Suffragette

2015

as Benedict Haughton

7.2
Acting

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and m...

Inside the Court of Henry VIII

Inside the Court of Henry VIII

2015

as Narrator

6.2
Acting

Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince, he ruled over his people as no king of England h...

The Eichmann Show

The Eichmann Show

2015

as Narrator

6.7
Acting

The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous...

The Riot Club

The Riot Club

2014

as Tutor

5.9
Acting

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one ev...

If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

2014

as Norman Skinner

Acting

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home bef...

Secrets of Underground London

Secrets of Underground London

2014

as Narrator

Acting

Experts examine the ruins and relics hidden under London. Among them, a Roman amphitheater, ditches for victims of the black plague, bomb shelters and...

Faberge: A Life of Its Own

Faberge: A Life of Its Own

2014

as Narrator

7.8
Acting

This feature-doc tells the epic story of the Faberge name, from Imperial Russia until the present-day, spanning one hundred and fifty years of turbule...

Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

2014

as Host

6.0
Acting

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and tourists for centuries. Why is it here? What is it...

Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy

Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy

2013

as Narrator

8.0
Acting
Secrets of the Tower of London

Secrets of the Tower of London

2013

as Narrator

Acting

A tour of the Tower of London, which has served as a royal castle, prison, place of execution and torture, armory and mint during its almost 1000 year...

Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court

Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court

2013

as Narrator (voice)

6.9
Acting

The history of this grand 500-year-old palace is inextricably tied to the lavish lifestyle of King Henry VIII and the doomed fates of his six wives.

Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson

Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson

2012

as Narrator (voice)

7.0
Acting

The life and work of Tove Jansson, mainly known for creating the Moomins but also a writer and painter.

Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies

Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies

2012

as Narrator (voice)

6.4
Acting

Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks af...

Hyde Park on Hudson

Hyde Park on Hudson

2012

as Bertie

5.2
Acting

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the ...

Secrets of the Manor House

Secrets of the Manor House

2012

as Narrator

9.0
Acting

Find out what went on behind the stately walls of the British manor house a century ago.

First Man on the Moon

First Man on the Moon

2012

as Narrator (Voice UK)

8.0
Acting

Neil Armstrong's family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before, tell the story of the first man to set foot on the moon. Drawing...

Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children

2011

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi reg...

Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters

Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters

2011

as Narrator

Acting

This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found hersel...

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel

2011

as Self - Narrator

Acting

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which Britai...

Dark Relic

Dark Relic

2010

as Friar George

3.4
Acting

1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he’s carrying bears a te...

BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

2010

as Self - Narrator

Acting

There’s something very odd going on in space – something that shouldn’t be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered u...

Harold Pinter:  A Celebration

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

2010

as Self

Acting

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theat...

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

2009

as Phil Figgis

5.7
Acting

1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world. The "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer tel...

The Blood of the Rose

2009

as Narrator

8.0
Acting

Documentary about the mysterious death of conservationist Joan Root in Kenya in 2006.

The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India

The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India

2009

as Narrator - (Voice)

Acting

Documentary which tells the story of Rolls-Royce in India by following the fortunes of India's princes from the zenith of British imperial power to th...

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

2008

as Ted Heath

6.8
Acting

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing...

Random Quest

Random Quest

2006

as Colin

6.7
Acting

Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life similar to, but different from, his own.

The First Emperor

The First Emperor

2006

as Himself - Narrator

6.3
Acting

Docu-drama profiling Ying Sheng, the first Emperor of China. Charting the life of the man who unified China, this documentary begins with the future E...

Einstein's Big Idea

Einstein's Big Idea

2005

as Humphry Davy

7.2
Acting

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusio...

After the War: Conquering Germany

After the War: Conquering Germany

2005

as Narrator

Acting

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, an absorbing examination of the events that followed. 1945: Germany is beaten ...

Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich

2005

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

Documentary on the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–1908.

Ring of the Nibelungs

Ring of the Nibelungs

2004

as Gunther

6.2
Acting

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a...

Van Helsing

Van Helsing

2004

as Dr. Victor Frankenstein

6.4
Acting

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna ...

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

2003

as Pongo (voice)

6.0
Acting

Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, w...

Iris

Iris

2001

as Young Maurice

6.4
Acting

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheime...

Pandaemonium

Pandaemonium

2001

as Robert Southey

5.0
Acting

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate En...

Nero's Golden House

Nero's Golden House

2001

as Narrator

Acting
Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses

2000

as Party Guest (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa ge...

Complicity

Complicity

2000

as Neil

5.9
Acting

Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some m...

Longitude

Longitude

2000

as Nevil Maskelyne

7.2
Acting

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Runt

Runt

1999

as Pork

Acting

Shane and his mates want revenge on a local hermit who frightens them one night. Shane distracts the man while the gang carries out its plan. But who...

In Excess: The Death of Michael Hutchence

1999

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

Documentary from the UK's Channel 4 investigating the death of INXS lead vocalist Michael Hutchence, which exclusively revealed information presented ...

Notting Hill

Notting Hill

1999

as Anna's Co-Star

7.3
Acting

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romanc...

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

1999

as Major Edrington

7.3
Acting

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin

1999

as Narrator

8.0
Acting

In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to mak...

The Dance of Shiva

The Dance of Shiva

1998

as Lieutenant Davies

Acting

In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers riski...

Rupert's Land

Rupert's Land

1998

as Rupert McKay

Acting

In this Canadian road movie, two brothers who haven't seen each other in years are uncomfortably reunited when they have to travel together from Vanco...

Stiff Upper Lips

Stiff Upper Lips

1998

as Edward

5.6
Acting

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Alt...

I Hate Christmas Too

I Hate Christmas Too

1997

as Soldier

6.0
Acting

An unhappy man has an encounter with the ghost of a World War I soldier, who tells him about the 1914 Christmas truce and gives him a new perspective ...

The Ripper

The Ripper

1997

as Prince Albert Victor Edward

5.5
Acting

It is 1888, and London is in the grip of one of the most gruesome and mysterious crime sprees in history. Under extreme pressure from the Royal family...

Danielle Steel's Zoya

Danielle Steel's Zoya

1997

as Nicolai

4.8
Acting

A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1996

as St John Rivers

6.9
Acting

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Heavy Weather

Heavy Weather

1995

as 'Monty' Bodkin

7.5
Acting

At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planni...

Carrington

Carrington

1995

as Gerald Brenan

6.2
Acting

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...

Persuasion

Persuasion

1995

as Mr. Elliot

7.1
Acting

Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea capt...

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

1995

as Victor

5.0
Acting

Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.

Open Fire

Open Fire

1994

as Stephen Waldorf

7.0
Acting

Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite...

A Feast at Midnight

A Feast at Midnight

1994

as Chef

6.0
Acting

A new student at a British public school forms a secret society centered around cooking and midnight feasting with other school misfits and outcasts.

A Breed of Heroes

A Breed of Heroes

1994

as Lt. Charles Thoroughgood

1.0
Acting

In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in se...

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as Cyrian

4.4
Acting

All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.

The Maitlands

The Maitlands

1993

as Jack Maitland

Acting

There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

Archipel

1993

as Alan Stewart

2.0
Acting

A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.

Voices in the Garden

Voices in the Garden

1993

as Mark

Acting

Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant socialising ha...

Howards End

Howards End

1992

as Leonard Bast

7.0
Acting

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, al...

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

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

1989

as King Caspian

5.4
Acting

Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers ...

Reunion

Reunion

1989

as Count Konradin von Lohenburg

6.5
Acting

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what ...

Frankie and Johnnie

Frankie and Johnnie

1986

as Johnnie Mallett

Acting

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has ...

Time & Tide - A Trilogy

Time & Tide - A Trilogy

N/A

Acting

Across the years, a mother watches her gladiator son fight, while she remembers his childhood: the last lighthouse keeper prepares for his final trip ...

The Book of Water

N/A

as Narrator/Geiser

Acting

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...