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Timothy Lancaster West, CBE is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business. As well as many classical theatre performances, he has appeared frequently on television, including spells in both Coronation Street as Eric Babbage and Stan Carter in EastEnders, and also in Not Going Out, as the original Geoffrey Adams. He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; since 2014 they have been seen travelling together on British and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys.
Birth Name
Timothy Lancaster West
Born
Saturday, 20 October 1934
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Sister Boniface Mysteries | Charles Usher | 2022 |
| We the Kings | Victor | 2020 |
| Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
| Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes | Pte. Charles Godfrey / Private Godfrey | 2019 |
| Gentleman Jack | Jeremy Lister | 2019 |
| Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators | Johnny Falstaff | 2018 |
| Great Canal Journeys | Self - Host / Self / Self - Presenter | 2014 |
| Inside No. 9 | Andrew | 2014 |
| Last Tango in Halifax | Ted | 2012 |
| The British | Lord Mansfield | 2012 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Sister Boniface Mysteries | Charles Usher | 2022 |
| We the Kings | Victor | 2020 |
| Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
| Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes | Pte. Charles Godfrey / Private Godfrey | 2019 |
| Gentleman Jack | Jeremy Lister | 2019 |
| Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators | Johnny Falstaff | 2018 |
| Great Canal Journeys | Self - Host / Self / Self - Presenter | 2014 |
| Inside No. 9 | Andrew | 2014 |
| Last Tango in Halifax | Ted | 2012 |
| The British | Lord Mansfield | 2012 |
| Toast of London | Ormond Sacker | 2012 |
| Run for Your Wife | Man in pub | 2012 |
| Titanic | Lord Pirrie | 2012 |
| Exile | Metzler | 2011 |
| Going Postal | Ridcully | 2010 |
| Idle-Hands | Spam | 2010 |
| Piers Morgan's Life Stories | Self - Actor & Friend / Self | 2009 |
| Endgame | P.W. Botha | 2009 |
| The Story of the Costume Drama | Himself | 2008 |
| Comedy Classics | Self | 2008 |
| John Nettles Applauds | Self | 2008 |
| A Room with a View | Mr Eager / Reverend Eager | 2007 |
| Not Going Out | Geoffrey | 2006 |
| Inspector Lewis | Donald Terry | 2006 |
| Bleak House | Sir Leicester Dedlock | 2005 |
| Colditz | Bunny Warren | 2005 |
| Peter Ackroyd's London | Henry Mayhew / Henry Mayhew - Journalist | 2004 |
| The Alan Clark Diaries | Sir Robert Armstrong | 2004 |
| Looking for Victoria | Thomas Creevey | 2003 |
| Beyond Borders | Lawrence Bauford | 2003 |
| Martin Luther | Martin Luther | 2003 |
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Dymas / Dymas (voice) | 2003 |
| New Tricks | Professor Mears | 2003 |
| Villa des roses | Hugh Burrell | 2002 |
| Iris | Older Maurice | 2002 |
| Station Jim | Sir Christopher Ellis | 2001 |
| Bedtime | Andrew Oldfield | 2001 |
| The Fourth Angel | Jones | 2001 |
| Murder in Mind | Dr. William Collins | 2001 |
| The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Andy Maiden | 2001 |
| 102 Dalmatians | Judge | 2000 |
| A History of Britain | Various | 2000 |
| Waking the Dead | Joe Doyle | 2000 |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Cauchon | 1999 |
| Ever After: A Cinderella Story | King Francis | 1998 |
| Animated Epics: Beowulf | Hrothgar ( voice ) / Hrothgar | 1998 |
| Funny Women | Self | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Marcus Devere | 1997 |
| The Place of the Dead | Chairman of the Inquiry | 1997 |
| Rebecca | Mr. Baker | 1997 |
| Cuts | Lord Mellow | 1996 |
| Over Here | Narrator | 1996 |
| Eleven Men Against Eleven | Sir Bob Luckton | 1995 |
| Hiroshima | Prime Minister Winston Churchill | 1995 |
| Bramwell | Colonel Kindersley | 1995 |
| Goodnight Sweetheart | Tufty McDuff | 1993 |
| Framed | DCI Jimmy McKinnes | 1992 |
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Prospero | 1992 |
| Murder Most Horrid | Old Doctor Adams | 1991 |
| Performance | Gloucester | 1991 |
| The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story | Col. Wilfred Wood | 1990 |
| Dirty Beasts | Narrator | 1990 |
| Beecham | Sir Thomas Beecham | 1990 |
| Screen One | Derek Blore / Geoffrey Cowper | 1989 |
| Mystery!: Campion | William Faraday | 1989 |
| Poirot | Reverend Cottrell | 1989 |
| Lenin: The Train | Parvus | 1988 |
| Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Charles Clutterbuck | 1988 |
| Consuming Passions | Dr. Rees | 1988 |
| After Henry | Nigel | 1988 |
| Breakthrough at Reykjavik | Mikhail Gorbachev | 1987 |
| Cry Freedom | Capt. De Wet / Captain De Wet | 1987 |
| Dispatches | Self | 1987 |
| The Monocled Mutineer | Thomson | 1986 |
| A Very Peculiar Practice | Professor Furie | 1986 |
| Tender Is the Night | Mr. Morris | 1985 |
| Marjorie and Men | George Banthorpe | 1985 |
| Florence Nightingale | Russell / William Russell | 1985 |
| Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye | Rex Fortescue | 1985 |
| Miss Marple: The Body in the Library | 1984 | |
| The Last Bastion | Winston Churchill | 1984 |
| An Audience with Kenneth Williams | Self | 1983 |
| Brass | Bradley Hardacre / Winston Churchill | 1983 |
| Oliver Twist | Mr. Bumble | 1982 |
| Murder Is Easy | Lord Gordon Easterfield | 1982 |
| Masada | Emperor Vespasian | 1981 |
| Did You See..? | Self | 1980 |
| Rough Cut | Nigel Lawton | 1980 |
| Crime and Punishment | Porfiry Petrovich | 1979 |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Albert Taylor | 1979 |
| The Thirty Nine Steps | Porton | 1979 |
| Agatha | Kenward | 1979 |
| News from Nowhere | William Morris | 1978 |
| Des Teufels Advokat | Father Anselmo | 1977 |
| Cottage to Let | David Weston | 1977 |
| Hard Times | Josiah Bounderby | 1977 |
| Joseph Andrews | Mr. Tow-Wouse | 1977 |
| Arena | Self | 1975 |
| Edward the King | Prince of Wales / Edward VII / King Edward the Seventh / Bertie | 1975 |
| Hedda | Brack | 1975 |
| Undercovers Hero | Convent Chaplain | 1974 |
| The Day of the Jackal | Berthier / Commissioner Berthier | 1973 |
| Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Prof. Gebhardt | 1973 |
| The Edwardians | Horatio Bottomley | 1972 |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Dr. Botkin | 1971 |
| Play for Today | Mark Childers | 1970 |
| Edward II | Young Mortimer | 1970 |
| My Partner the Ghost | Sam Grimes | 1969 |
| The Looking Glass War | Taylor | 1969 |
| Big Breadwinner Hog | Lennox | 1969 |
| Twisted Nerve | Superintendant Dakin | 1968 |
| The Deadly Affair | Matrevis (in 'Edward II') | 1966 |
| Mystery and Imagination | Dr. Middleton | 1966 |
| Call My Bluff | Self | 1965 |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre | Jack Campion | 1965 |
| Public Eye | Police Sergeant | 1965 |
| Theatre 625 | Jan | 1964 |
| Comedy Playhouse | Milton | 1961 |
| The Marriage Lines | Bob | 1961 |
| Deadline Midnight | Ambulance man | 1960 |
| No Hiding Place | Constable | 1959 |
| Armchair Theatre | Ralph | 1956 |
