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Samuel Alexander Joseph West is an English actor, theatre director and voice actor. He has directed on stage and radio, and worked as an actor across theatre, film, television and radio. He often appears as reciter with orchestras and performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002. He has narrated several documentary series, including five for the BBC centred on events related to the Second World War.
Birth Name
Samuel Alexander Joseph West
Born
Sunday, 19 June 1966
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Midwich Cuckoos | Bernard Westcott | 2022 |
| Slow Horses | Peter Judd | 2022 |
| Gatecrash | Policeman | 2020 |
| Small Axe | Mr Hill | 2020 |
| Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
| All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried Farnon | 2020 |
| The Gentlemen | Lord Pressfield | 2020 |
| Kielergata | Richard | 2018 |
| Jeremy Vine | Self - All Creatures Great and Small star | 2018 |
| Path of Blood | Narrator | 2018 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Midwich Cuckoos | Bernard Westcott | 2022 |
| Slow Horses | Peter Judd | 2022 |
| Gatecrash | Policeman | 2020 |
| Small Axe | Mr Hill | 2020 |
| Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
| All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried Farnon | 2020 |
| The Gentlemen | Lord Pressfield | 2020 |
| Kielergata | Richard | 2018 |
| Jeremy Vine | Self - All Creatures Great and Small star | 2018 |
| Path of Blood | Narrator | 2018 |
| On Chesil Beach | Geoffrey Ponting | 2018 |
| Trust | Professor Talbot | 2018 |
| Darkest Hour | Sir Anthony Eden / Anthony Eden | 2017 |
| Titanic's Fatal Fire | 2017 | |
| Spying on the Royals | Self - Narrator | 2017 |
| The Crown | Anthony Blunt | 2016 |
| Westworld | Security Guard | 2016 |
| The Frankenstein Chronicles | Sir William Chester | 2015 |
| Suffragette | Benedict Haughton | 2015 |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Sir Walter Pole | 2015 |
| Inside the Court of Henry VIII | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 2015 |
| Touched by Auschwitz | Narrator | 2015 |
| The Eichmann Show | Narrator | 2015 |
| Grantchester | Professor Henry Barkley | 2014 |
| The Riot Club | Tutor | 2014 |
| Executed | Self - Narrator | 2014 |
| If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day | Norman Skinner | 2014 |
| Secrets of Britain | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator | 2014 |
| The Crimson Field | Elliot Vincent | 2014 |
| Faberge: A Life of Its Own | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 2014 |
| W1A | Richard Cartwright | 2014 |
| Great Canal Journeys | Self - Actor and Son of Timothy and Prunella | 2014 |
| Questioning Darwin | Charles Darwin | 2014 |
| Fleming | Rear Admiral John Godfrey | 2014 |
| Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court | Narrator (voice) / Self - Narrator | 2013 |
| Mr Selfridge | Frank Edwards | 2013 |
| Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon | Self - Narrator / Narrator (Voice UK) | 2012 |
| Hyde Park on Hudson | Bertie | 2012 |
| The Hollow Crown | Bishop of Winchester | 2012 |
| Sunday Brunch | Self - Guest / Himself - Guest | 2012 |
| Secrets of the Manor House | Narrator | 2012 |
| Eternal Law | Zak Gist | 2012 |
| King George and Queen Mary: The Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy | Self - Narrator | 2012 |
| Hitler's Children | Narrator | 2011 |
| Codebreaker | Self - Narrator | 2011 |
| Death in Paradise | Donald McCormack | 2011 |
| Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters | Self - Narrator / Voice | 2011 |
| The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide | Self - Narrator | 2011 |
| Any Human Heart | Peter Scabius (Older) / Peter Scabius | 2010 |
| Dark Relic | Friar George | 2010 |
| The Bible: A History | Self - Readings | 2010 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Phil Figgis | 2009 |
| The Blood of the Rose | Self - Narrator | 2009 |
| Garrow's Law | Thomas Erskine | 2009 |
| Desperate Romantics | Lord Rosterley | 2009 |
| CBeebies Bedtime Story | Self - Storyteller | 2009 |
| Piers Morgan's Life Stories | Self - Timothy's Son | 2009 |
| Law & Order: UK | Lucas Boyd | 2009 |
| Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley | Ted Heath | 2008 |
| Daniel Libeskind: The Making of an Architect | Self - Narrator | 2007 |
| Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl | Self | 2007 |
| Random Quest | Colin / Colin Trafford | 2006 |
| The First Emperor | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator | 2006 |
| Einstein's Big Idea | Humphry Davy | 2005 |
| Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State | Narrator | 2005 |
| Ring of the Nibelungs | Gunther | 2004 |
| Curse of the Ring | Gunther / King Gunther | 2004 |
| Van Helsing | Dr. Victor Frankenstein | 2004 |
| Imagine | Wightwick | 2003 |
| Cambridge Spies | Anthony Blunt | 2003 |
| New Tricks | David Fleeting | 2003 |
| 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure | Pongo (voice) / Pongo | 2002 |
| Foyle's War | Lt. Col. James Wintringham | 2002 |
| Akhenaten and Nefertiti | Self - Narrator | 2002 |
| Iris | Young Maurice | 2002 |
| Pandaemonium | Robert Southey | 2001 |
| The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Tony Wainwright | 2001 |
| The Private Life of a Masterpiece | Self - Narrator | 2001 |
| Nero's Golden House | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 2001 |
| A History of Britain | Various | 2000 |
| Bread and Roses | Self - Party Guest | 2000 |
| Waking the Dead | Thomas Rice | 2000 |
| Complicity | Neil | 2000 |
| Longitude | Nevil Maskelyne | 2000 |
| Longitude | Nevil Maskelyne | 2000 |
| War of the Century | Self - Narrator | 1999 |
| Notting Hill | Anna's Co-star | 1999 |
| Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War | Major Lord Edrington / Major Edrington | 1999 |
| Battle of the Sexes: in the Animal World | Narrator | 1999 |
| Rupert's Land | Rupert McKay | 1998 |
| Stiff Upper Lips | Edward | 1998 |
| The Ripper | Prince Albert Victor Edward | 1997 |
| Funny Women | Self | 1997 |
| The Nazis: A Warning from History | Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | James Oswood / Jeremy Thacker | 1997 |
| Strangers | Simon | 1996 |
| Over Here | Squadron-Leader Archie Bunting | 1996 |
| Jane Eyre | St. John Rivers | 1996 |
| Heavy Weather | 'Monty' Bodkin | 1995 |
| Zoya | Nicolai | 1995 |
| Carrington | Gerald Brenan | 1995 |
| Persuasion | Mr. Elliot | 1995 |
| A Feast at Midnight | Chef | 1995 |
| The Vacillations of Poppy Carew | Victor | 1995 |
| Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time | Cyrian | 1993 |
| Archipel | Alan Stewart | 1993 |
| Howards End | Leonard Bast | 1992 |
| As Time Goes By | Terry | 1992 |
| Stanley and the Women | Stephen Duke | 1991 |
| Secret History | Self - Narrator | 1991 |
| Performance | Jack Maitland | 1991 |
| Alleyn Mysteries | Donald Potter | 1990 |
| Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader | King Caspian | 1989 |
| Screen One | Lt. Charles Thoroughgood | 1989 |
| Reunion | Count Konradin von Lohenburg | 1989 |
| Poirot | Dr Constantine | 1989 |
| Screen Two | Mr. Elliot / Mark / Johnnie Mallett | 1985 |
| Timewatch | Self - Narrator | 1982 |
| Nanny | James Lamerton | 1981 |
| Arena | Various Characters | 1975 |
| Edward the King | Eddy - Albert Victor - Age 5 | 1975 |
| Nova | Humphry Davy | 1974 |
| Horizon | Self - Narrator | 1964 |
