Timothy West

Timothy West is the kind of actor I find easy to admire, because his career was about sheer range and durability rather than flash. He came up through British repertory theatre in the 1950s, reached the London stage, and spent three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company before moving fluidly across film and television. That CBE in 1984 feels like recognition of a steady, serious body of work rather than a single famous role. What I take from his life, which ran from 1934 to 2024, is the model of a working actor who simply kept going for decades. There's something quietly impressive about a craft sustained that long across every medium.

Name (English)

Timothy West

Name (Japanese)

ティモシー・ウェスト

Reading

てぃもしー・うぇすと

Born

October 20, 1934 – November 12, 2024

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

Origin

Bradford, United Kingdom

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

University

University of Westminster

Awards & achievements

• 1984 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88

Tags

• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.