Cast & creator
Timothy West
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, Agatha Christie's Poirot
Timothy Lancaster West, CBE was an English film, stage, presenter and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business.
Also known as: Tim West, Timothy Lancaster West, Timothy West CBE
70
film credits
74
television credits
144
1956–2024 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (144)
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Midsomer Murders
Marcus Devere
1997
Coronation Street
Eric Babbage
1960
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Reverend Cottrell
1989
Play for Today
Mark Childers
1970
Lewis
Donald Terry
2007
Tales of the Unexpected
Albert Taylor
1979
Waking the Dead
Joe Doyle
2001
New Tricks
Professor Mears
2004
Theatre 625
Jan
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Jack Campion
1965
No Hiding Place
1959
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Not Going Out
Geoffrey Adams
2006
Inside No. 9
Andrew
2014The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
2007
Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Johnny Falstaff
2018
Performance
Gloucester
1991
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Andy Maiden
2002
Screen One
Derek Blore
1989Screen One
Geoffrey Cowper
1989
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Dymas (voice)
2003
Gentleman Jack
Jeremy Lister
2019
Goodnight Sweetheart
Tufty McDuff
1993
Murder in Mind
Dr. William Collins
2001
Murder Most Horrid
Old Doctor Adams
1991
102 Dalmatians
Judge
2000
Campion
William Faraday
1989
Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
Rex Fortescue
1985
Bleak House
Sir Leicester Dedlock
2005
Bramwell
Colonel Kindersley
1995
Last Tango in Halifax
Ted
2012
Villains
Benny
1972
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Cauchon
1999
Theatre Night
Doctor Rance
1985Theatre Night
David Roberts
1985Theatre Night
Ewbank
1985
Toast of London
2013
Theatre Night
Talky
1957
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Prospero (voice)
1992
Mystery and Imagination
Dr Middleton
1966
The Day of the Jackal
Commissioner Berthier
1973
EverAfter
King Francis
1998
Masada
Emperor Vespasian
1981
Titanic
Lord Pirrie
2012
Miss Marple
Rex Fortescue
1984
A Very Peculiar Practice
Professor Furie
1986
The Edwardians
Horatio Bottomley
1972
Exile
Metzler
2011
Brass
Bradley Hardacre
1983Brass
Winston Churchill
1983
After Henry
Nigel
1988
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1979
Going Postal
Ridcully
2010
Tender Is the Night
Mr. Morris
1985
Armchair Theatre
Ralph
1956
Edward the Seventh
Albert Edward 'Bertie'
1975Edward the Seventh
Edward, Prince of Wales
1975Edward the Seventh
King Edward VII
1975Trapped
Ossie
1967
Colditz
Bunny Warren
2005
Cry Freedom
Capt. De Wet
1987
Great Canal Journeys
Self
2014
The Alan Clark Diaries
Sir Robert Armstrong
2004
Iris
Older Maurice
2001
Bedtime
Andrew Oldfield
2001
Lenin... The Train
Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus
1988
Crime and Punishment
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin
1979A Room with a View
Reverend Eager
2008
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Prof. Gebhardt
1973
Beyond Borders
Lawrence Bauford
2003
Nicholas and Alexandra
Dr. Botkin
1971
Consuming Passions
Dr. Rees
1988
Persuasion
Charles Hayter
1960
Strife
David Roberts
1988London
Henry Mayhew
2004
The Fourth Angel
Jones
2001
Dickens
John Dickens
2002
Going Postal 2in1
Ridcully
2011
Framed
DCI Jimmy McKinnes
1992Sunday Premiere
Harry King
1986
The Thirty Nine Steps
Porton
1978
Rough Cut
Nigel Lawton
1980Looking for Victoria
Thomas Creevey
2003
The Deadly Affair
Matrvis (in Edward II)
1967
Twisted Nerve
Superintendant Dakin
1968Cottage to Let
David Weston
1977
Murder Is Easy
Lord Gordon Easterfield
1982
Colditz
Bunny Warren
2005
The Monocled Mutineer
1986
Station Jim
Sir Christopher Ellis
2001
When We Are Married
Councillor Albert Parker
1987
Oliver Twist
Mr. Bumble
1982
Lenin: The Train
Parvus
1988
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974
The Looking Glass War
Taylor
1970
Hard Times
Josiah Bounderby
1977
Smokescreen
Frank Sheringham
1994
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
2003
Run For Your Wife
Man in Pub
2012
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Charles Clutterbuck
1988
A Room with a View
Mr Eager
2007
Agatha
Kenward
1979
Endgame
P.W. Botha
2009
Florence Nightingale
William Russell
1985
Sardines
Andrew
2014
Dirty Beasts
Narrator
1990The Book of Water
Geiser
Churchill and the Generals
Winston Churchill
1979Over Here
Narrator
1996
The Vote
Fred Norris
2015
The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story
Col. Wilfred Wood
1990
The Tragedy of King Richard II
Henry Bolingbroke
1970
Hedda
Brack
1975
Joseph Andrews
Mr. Tow-Wouse
1977
Cuts
Lord Mellow
1996
Delirium
College Bursar
2017
The Place of the Dead
Chairman of the Inquiry
1997
What the Butler Saw
Dr Rance
1987
Animated Epics: Beowulf
Hrothgar ( voice )
1998
Eleven Men Against Eleven
Sir Bob Luckton
1995
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Self
1984
The After Dinner Game
Mark Childers
1975
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Dr John Bodkin Adams
1986
King Lear
Gloucester
1998
Revolting Rhymes
Narrator
1990
Night of the Broken
Adolf Hitler
2022
Big Breadwinner Hog
Lennox
1969
Survival of the Fittest
Geoffrey Cowper
1990
Villa Des Roses
Hugh Burrell
2002
Henry VIII
Cardinal Wolsey
1979
The Devil's Advocate
Father Anselmo
1977Witch Hunt
Dr. Howard Agister
1967
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio Bottomley
1972
Edward II
Young Mortimer
1970
Harry's Kingdom
Harry King
1987
The Big Snow of '47
Self
2024
Bring Back My Bonnie
Roger
2022
Blore M.P.
Derek Blore MP
1989Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Mikhail Gorbachev
1987
The Tempest
Prospero
1993
We the Kings
Victor
2018News from Nowhere
William Morris
1978Idle-Hands
Spam
2010Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham
1990