Timothy West: movies and TV shows
Timothy West has 141 credits in the archive: 68 films and 73 TV series, from 1956 to 2024. Highest rated: Murder in Mind (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1956 – 2024 · busiest year: 1979 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Big Snow of '47 | Self | Film | — | 89 |
| 2022 | Night of the Broken | Adolf Hitler | Film | 8.0 | 87 |
| 2022 | Bring Back My Bonnie | Roger | Film | — | 87 |
| 2019 | Gentleman Jack | Jeremy Lister | TV | 7.8 | 84 |
| 2018 | Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators | Johnny Falstaff | TV | 7.2 | 83 |
| 2018 | We the Kings | Victor | Film | 10.0 | 83 |
| 2017 | Delirium | College Bursar | Film | — | 82 |
| 2015 | The Vote | Fred Norris | Film | 8.4 | 80 |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Andrew | TV | 8.1 | 79 |
| 2014 | Great Canal Journeys | Self | TV | 8.8 | 79 |
| 2014 | Sardines | Andrew | Film | 9.0 | 79 |
| 2013 | Toast of London | TV | 7.4 | 78 | |
| 2012 | Last Tango in Halifax | Ted | TV | 7.1 | 77 |
| 2012 | Titanic | Lord Pirrie | TV | 5.9 | 77 |
| 2012 | Run For Your Wife | Man in Pub | Film | 4.4 | 77 |
| 2011 | Exile | Metzler | TV | 7.2 | 76 |
| 2010 | Going Postal | Ridcully | TV | 7.2 | 75 |
| 2010 | Idle-Hands | Spam | Film | 5.5 | 75 |
| 2009 | Endgame | P.W. Botha | Film | 5.9 | 74 |
| 2008 | A Room with a View | Reverend Eager | TV | — | 73 |
| 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self | TV | 4.5 | 72 |
| 2007 | Lewis | Donald Terry | TV | 7.6 | 72 |
| 2007 | A Room with a View | Mr Eager | Film | 5.4 | 72 |
| 2006 | Not Going Out | Geoffrey Adams | TV | 7.4 | 71 |
| 2005 | Bleak House | Sir Leicester Dedlock | TV | 8.0 | 70 |
| 2005 | Colditz | Bunny Warren | TV | 6.1 | 70 |
| 2005 | Colditz | Bunny Warren | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2004 | New Tricks | Professor Mears | TV | 7.3 | 69 |
| 2004 | London | Henry Mayhew | TV | 10.0 | 69 |
| 2004 | The Alan Clark Diaries | Sir Robert Armstrong | TV | 7.3 | 69 |
| 2003 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Dymas (voice) | Film | 7.1 | 68 |
| 2003 | Beyond Borders | Lawrence Bauford | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2003 | Martin Luther | Martin Luther | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2003 | Looking for Victoria | Thomas Creevey | TV | — | 68 |
| 2002 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Andy Maiden | TV | 7.3 | 67 |
| 2002 | Dickens | John Dickens | TV | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2002 | Villa Des Roses | Hugh Burrell | Film | 5.2 | 67 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Joe Doyle | TV | 7.2 | 66 |
| 2001 | Murder in Mind | Dr. William Collins | TV | 8.3 | 66 |
| 2001 | Iris | Older Maurice | Film | 6.4 | 66 |
| 2001 | Bedtime | Andrew Oldfield | TV | 4.3 | 66 |
| 2001 | The Fourth Angel | Jones | Film | 5.3 | 66 |
| 2001 | Station Jim | Sir Christopher Ellis | Film | 7.5 | 66 |
| 2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Judge | Film | 5.5 | 65 |
| 1999 | The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | Cauchon | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1998 | EverAfter | King Francis | Film | 7.5 | 63 |
| 1998 | Animated Epics: Beowulf | Hrothgar ( voice ) | Film | 5.5 | 63 |
| 1998 | King Lear | Gloucester | Film | 8.5 | 63 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Marcus Devere | TV | 7.5 | 62 |
| 1997 | The Place of the Dead | Chairman of the Inquiry | Film | 5.8 | 62 |
| 1996 | Cuts | Lord Mellow | Film | — | 61 |
| 1996 | Over Here | Narrator | TV | 7.7 | 61 |
| 1995 | Bramwell | Colonel Kindersley | TV | 4.2 | 60 |
| 1995 | Eleven Men Against Eleven | Sir Bob Luckton | Film | 7.3 | 60 |
| 1994 | Smokescreen | Frank Sheringham | TV | 8.0 | 59 |
| 1993 | Goodnight Sweetheart | TV | 7.2 | 58 | |
| 1993 | The Tempest | Prospero | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Prospero (voice) | TV | 6.4 | 57 |
| 1992 | Framed | DCI Jimmy McKinnes | TV | 6.9 | 57 |
| 1991 | Performance | Gloucester | TV | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1991 | Murder Most Horrid | Old Doctor Adams | TV | 6.9 | 56 |
| 1990 | Dirty Beasts | Narrator | Film | — | 55 |
| 1990 | Revolting Rhymes | Narrator | Film | — | 55 |
| 1990 | The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story | Col. Wilfred Wood | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1990 | Beecham | Sir Thomas Beecham | Film | — | 55 |
| 1990 | Survival of the Fittest | Geoffrey Cowper | Film | — | 55 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Reverend Cottrell | TV | 8.2 | 54 |
| 1989 | Screen One | Derek Blore | TV | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1989 | Screen One | Geoffrey Cowper | TV | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1989 | Campion | William Faraday | TV | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1989 | Blore M.P. | Derek Blore MP | Film | 3.3 | 54 |
| 1988 | After Henry | Nigel | TV | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions | Dr. Rees | Film | 8.3 | 53 |
| 1988 | Lenin... The Train | Alexander 'Helphand' Parvus | TV | 6.0 | 53 |
| 1988 | Lenin: The Train | Parvus | Film | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1988 | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Charles Clutterbuck | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 1987 | Cry Freedom | Capt. De Wet | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1987 | When We Are Married | Councillor Albert Parker | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1987 | Harry's Kingdom | Harry King | Film | — | 52 |
| 1987 | What the Butler Saw | Dr Rance | Film | 3.0 | 52 |
| 1987 | Breakthrough at Reykjavik | Mikhail Gorbachev | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1986 | A Very Peculiar Practice | Professor Furie | TV | 8.2 | 51 |
| 1986 | Sunday Premiere | Harry King | TV | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1986 | The Monocled Mutineer | TV | 7.7 | 51 | |
| 1986 | The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams | Dr John Bodkin Adams | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1985 | Theatre Night | Doctor Rance | TV | — | 50 |
| 1985 | Theatre Night | David Roberts | TV | — | 50 |
| 1985 | Theatre Night | Ewbank | TV | — | 50 |
| 1985 | Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye | Rex Fortescue | TV | 7.3 | 50 |
| 1985 | Tender Is the Night | Mr. Morris | TV | 6.3 | 50 |
| 1985 | Florence Nightingale | William Russell | Film | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1984 | Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage | Self | Film | 9.0 | 49 |
| 1983 | Brass | Bradley Hardacre | TV | 6.1 | 48 |
| 1983 | Brass | Winston Churchill | TV | 6.1 | 48 |
| 1982 | Oliver Twist | Mr. Bumble | Film | 6.7 | 47 |
| 1982 | Murder Is Easy | Lord Gordon Easterfield | Film | 6.6 | 47 |
| 1981 | Masada | Emperor Vespasian | TV | 7.0 | 46 |
| 1980 | Rough Cut | Nigel Lawton | Film | 5.9 | 45 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Albert Taylor | TV | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1979 | Friday Night, Saturday Morning | TV | 7.5 | 44 | |
| 1979 | Crime and Punishment | Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin | TV | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1979 | Agatha | Kenward | Film | 6.1 | 44 |
| 1979 | Henry VIII | Cardinal Wolsey | Film | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1979 | Churchill and the Generals | Winston Churchill | Film | 9.0 | 44 |
| 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | TV | 5.3 | 43 |
| 1978 | The Thirty Nine Steps | Porton | Film | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1978 | News from Nowhere | William Morris | Film | 10.0 | 43 |
| 1977 | Cottage to Let | David Weston | TV | — | 42 |
| 1977 | Hard Times | Josiah Bounderby | TV | 6.5 | 42 |
| 1977 | The Devil's Advocate | Father Anselmo | Film | 7.3 | 42 |
| 1977 | Joseph Andrews | Mr. Tow-Wouse | Film | 5.2 | 42 |
| 1975 | Edward the Seventh | Albert Edward 'Bertie' | TV | 6.6 | 40 |
| 1975 | Edward the Seventh | Edward, Prince of Wales | TV | 6.6 | 40 |
| 1975 | Edward the Seventh | King Edward VII | TV | 6.6 | 40 |
| 1975 | The After Dinner Game | Mark Childers | Film | 7.5 | 40 |
| 1975 | Hedda | Brack | Film | 6.2 | 40 |
| 1974 | Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Film | 4.6 | 39 | |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Commissioner Berthier | Film | 7.5 | 38 |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Prof. Gebhardt | Film | 6.2 | 38 |
| 1972 | The Edwardians | Horatio Bottomley | TV | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1972 | Villains | Benny | TV | 7.5 | 37 |
| 1972 | Horatio Bottomley | Horatio Bottomley | Film | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Dr. Botkin | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Mark Childers | TV | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1970 | The Looking Glass War | Taylor | Film | 5.6 | 35 |
| 1970 | Edward II | Young Mortimer | Film | 4.9 | 35 |
| 1970 | The Tragedy of King Richard II | Henry Bolingbroke | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1969 | Big Breadwinner Hog | Lennox | TV | 7.5 | 34 |
| 1968 | Twisted Nerve | Superintendant Dakin | Film | 6.8 | 33 |
| 1967 | Trapped | Ossie | TV | — | 32 |
| 1967 | The Deadly Affair | Matrvis (in Edward II) | Film | 6.3 | 32 |
| 1967 | Witch Hunt | Dr. Howard Agister | TV | 9.0 | 32 |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | Dr Middleton | TV | 5.8 | 31 |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Jack Campion | TV | 4.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Jan | TV | 7.2 | 29 |
| 1960 | Coronation Street | Eric Babbage | TV | 5.3 | 25 |
| 1960 | Persuasion | Charles Hayter | TV | 10.0 | 25 |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place | TV | 4.8 | 24 | |
| 1957 | Theatre Night | Talky | TV | — | 22 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Ralph | TV | 6.0 | 21 |
| The Book of Water | Geiser | Film | — | — |