Samuel West
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Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, stage director, and voice actor.
He has worked on stage and radio, as well as acting as an actor in theatre, film, television, and radio.
He has performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002 as a reciter with orchestras and appeared as a reciter for orchestras.
He has produced five documentary films, five for the BBC focusing on events connected to the Second World War.
Early life and education
West was born in Hammersmith, London, on June 19th, the elder son of actress Prunella Scales and actor Timothy West, and the grandson of actor Lockwood West. Joe is his brother. He studied English literature and was president of the Experimental Theatre Club at Alleyn's School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he studied English literature and was president of the Experimental Theatre Club. West had intended to attend Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art but decided against it after being cast as King Caspian in the BBC's 1989 film The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Personal life
On several occasions, West has appeared alongside his actors: in Howards End and Stiff Upper Lips, and with his father Timothy West on stage in A Number, Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. Sam and his father have appeared in two films (Iris in 2001 and the 1996 television film Over Here) in which the same characters have appeared at different ages.
In Edward the Seventh (1975), he and his brother Joseph portrayed teenage sons of the title character, who was not played by their father. Both three family members appeared in Stravinsky's The Soldiers Tale in Orkney in 2002, and in 2006, they gave a rehearsed reading of the Harold Pinter's Family Voices as part of the Sheffield Theatres Pinter season.
West became the patron of Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus in February 2008, having been the narrator of a concert of their own in February 2002. Scene & Heard, Eastside Educational Trust, and Mousetrap Theatre Projects are among the charities that support children in London.
West was a member of the Socialist Workers Party and then briefly the Socialist Alliance while at university. For many years, West has been involved in politics; he was a critic of Tony Blair's New Labour government and their involvement in the Iraq War. On March 26, 2011, he spoke at the TUC March for the Alternative.
For Michael Dobson's CUP report Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today and On Shakespeare's Passion and Love, West has written an article on Richard II.
He has also written about Harold Pinter, on Caryl Churchill, and on the Shipping Forecast. He regularly writes and speaks out in public about arts funding. West has been collecting stamps since childhood and has more than 200 Two Shilling Blues.
He was one of the judges on the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2013. He appeared on two programs for the Christmas University Challenge in December 2014 as part of a team of alumni from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
West is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as a trustee and former Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts. From 1996–2000 and 2014, he was a member of the British Actors' Union Equity Council, from 1996–2004. He is an avid birdwatcher.
West jumped in with playwright Laura Wade in 2007, but the pair briefly broke up in 2011. West appeared in The Riot Club, Wade's film adaptation of his hit film, Posh, in 2013, and the couple had a daughter in 2014. The couple had a second child in August 2017.
West is a fan of AFC Wimbledon.
Career
West made his London debut in February 1989 in the Orange Tree Theatre, in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, in which critic John Thaxter wrote: "He invests the role with a warmth and vigor that could so easily connect to a lesser role in this difficult role," and "he lets us explore the tumbling emotions of a young boy's struggle between romantic first love and filial duty." Since then, West has appeared on stage regularly; he appeared in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the National Theatre in 1993 and later spent two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, both directed by Steven Pimlott.
The Lady's Not for Burning, West's debut on stage at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester, in 2002. Michael Grandage was the artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 2005 to 2007. West revived the controversial The Romans in Britain and also directed As You Like It as part of the RSC's Complete Works Festival. Following its transferral to the Trafalgar Studios, West left Sheffield when the theatre closed for renovations in 2007 and made his West End directorial debut with the first major revival of Dealer's Choice. He also continued his acting career: In 2007, he appeared alongside Toby Stephens and Dervla Kirwan in Betrayal at the Donmar Warehouse.
He appeared Harry in T. S. Eliot's Family Reunion in 2008, and Lucy Prebble starred Jeffrey Skilling in Enron. The Times named Waste at the Almeida Theatre in 2008 as one of its "Productions of the Decade." In a production of Uncle Vanya at the Valiant Theatre from November 2012 to January 2013, he appeared as Astrov from November 2012 to January 2013. In the Chichester Festival Theatre's Young Chekhov Season, he performed Ivanov and Trigorin, as well as Nina Sosanya, Anna Chancellor, and James McArdle.
In 1980's Germany, West appeared in the film Reunion (1989) with Jason Robards and Christien Anholt as an aristocratic boy who befriends the son of a Jewish doctor. In the Merchant Ivory film version of E. M. Forster's novel Howards End (1992), West portrayed lower-middle-class clerk Leonard Bast, starring Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anthony Hopkins. He had been nominated for best supporting actor at the 1993 BAFTA Film Awards for this role. In the film Carrington (1995), West appeared with Thompson once more. His film career has continued with appearances in films including Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Notting Hill, Iris, Van Helsing, and Darkest Hour. He appeared in Die Nibelungen, the year's highest-rated mini-series on German television, in 2004, which was released in the United States in 2006 as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. He appeared in King George VI on Hudson in 2012.
West has appeared in a number of long-running series, including Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead, and Poirot, as well as one-off dramas. In Cambridge Spies, a BBC film about the four British spies starring Toby Stephens (Philby), Tom Hollander (Burgess), and Rupert Penry-Jones (Maclean). In "Olding," the first episode of the Crown's third season, he reimagined his role as Blunt.
He was in charge of a BBC production of Random Quest based on John Wyndham's short story, as well as for the BBC. In 2010, he appeared Peter Scabius in William Boyd's book Any Human Heart, while in 2011 he starred as Zak Gist in the ITV series Eternal Law. In addition, Terry appeared in As Time Goes By as Terry in the episode "We'll Always Have Paris" (1994).
In the 2015 BBC adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Frank Edwards appeared in the ITV drama Mr Selfridge and Sir Walter Pole.
Siegfried Farnon appears in the Channel Five series (broadcast in September 2020). The show was revived for a second six-episode series, as well as a Christmas special. A third season of The Royal Society is currently in production.
West is often seen on radio as a reader or reciter, and he has appeared in many radio dramas, including Manykin by Laura Wade, Present Laughter by No.l Coward, Len Deighton's Bomber, Life and Death as Lenny to Harold Pinter's Max. On BBC Radio 3, he made his radio directing debut in 2011.