Timothy West
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Timothy West CBE |
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West at the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, 15 February 2010
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| Born |
Timothy Lancaster West 20 October 1934 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Education |
The John Lyon School Bristol Grammar School Regent Street Polytechnic |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1956–2015 |
| Spouse(s) | Jacqueline Boyer (m. 1956–1961, divorced) Prunella Scales CBE (m. 1963–present) |
| Children | Juliet West Samuel West Joseph West |
| Parent(s) |
Lockwood West Olive Carleton-Crowe |
Timothy Lancaster West,CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor.
West was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, the son of Olive (née Carleton-Crowe) and actor Lockwood West. He was educated at the John Lyon School, Harrow on the Hill, at Bristol Grammar School, where he was a classmate of Julian Glover, and at Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster).
West worked as an office furniture salesman and as a recording technician, before becoming an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956.
West played repertory seasons in Newquay, Hull, Northampton, Worthing and Salisbury before making his London debut at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 in the farce Caught Napping. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for three seasons: the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season (Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come), the 1964 'Dirty Plays' season (Victor, the premiere production of Marat/Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come) and the 1965 season at Stratford and later at the Aldwych Theatre appearing in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost and Peter Hall's production of The Government Inspector, in a company which included Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Janet Suzman, Paul Rogers, Ian Richardson, Glenda Jackson and Peter McEnery.
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