biography
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West, Timothy (Lancaster)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| British actor and director. He was educated in London, entered the profession as assistant stage manager at Wimbledon (1956), and made his London debut in 1959. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1964–6), and with the prospect Theatre Company (1966–72), where he also directed, and thereafter played a wide variety of roles in the provinces, the West End, and abroad. His television appearances include Churchill and the Generals (1979), The Monocled Mutineer (1986), Survival of the Fittest (1990), and Cuts (1995); his films include The Day of the Jackal (1972), Cry Freedom (1986), Consuming Passions (1988), and The Place of the Dead (1996). He married actress Prunella Scales in 1963 and is the father of the actor Sam West. |
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