Samuel West

Biography

Samuel West was born on June 19, 1966 in Hammersmith, London, England as Samuel Alexander Joseph West. He is known for his work on Howards End (1992), Van Helsing (2004) and Notting Hill (1999).

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

93

Birth Date

1966-06-19 00:00:00

Birth Place

Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Known For

• 

  All Creatures Great & Small
• 

  Fleming
• The Book of Water
• 

  The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour (Live At The Royal Festival Hall)
• All the world's a stage
• 

  Inside the Court of Henry VIII

Credits

• actors (93 credits)

  • Time & Tide - A Trilogy

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • The Book of Water

    Narrator/Geiser

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Return to Narnia

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Merchant Ivory

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour (Live At The Royal Festival Hall)

    Master of Ceremonies

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • The Midwich Cuckoos

    Bernard Westcott

    actor

    actors

    - Departure (2022) ... Bernard Westcott actor actors

    - Not an Ice Cream (2022) ... Bernard Westcott actor actors

    - Why Are You Lying? (2022) ... Bernard Westcott actor actors

    - Hide and Seek (2022) ... Bernard Westcott actor actors

    - The Hive (2022) ... Bernard Westcott actor actors
    2022
  • Slow Horses

    - Scars (2025) ... Peter Judd actor actors

    - Incommunicado (2025) ... Peter Judd actor actors

    - Uninvited Guests (2023) ... Peter Judd actor actors

    - Negotiating with Tigers (2023) ... Peter Judd actor actors

    - Old Scores (2022) ... Peter Judd actor actors
    2022
  • Gatecrash

    Policeman

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • All Creatures Great & Small

    Siegfried Farnon

    actor

    actors

    - Comfort and Joy (2025) ... Siegfried Farnon actor actors

    - Our Hearts Are Full (2025) ... Siegfried Farnon actor actors

    - Fixes (2025) ... Siegfried Farnon actor actors

    - Jenny Wren (2025) ... Siegfried Farnon actor actors

    - Captain Farnon? (2025) ... Siegfried Farnon actor actors
    2020
  • The Gentlemen

    Lord Pressfield

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Small Axe

    - Mangrove (2020) ... Mr. Hill actor actors
    2020
  • On Chesil Beach

    Geoffrey Ponting

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Darkest Hour

    Sir Anthony Eden

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • All the world's a stage

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Westworld

    - Genre (2020) ... Security Guard actor actors
    2016
  • The Crown

    - Olding (2019) ... Anthony Blunt actor actors
    2016
  • Suffragette

    Benedict Haughton

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Sir Walter Pole

    actor

    actors

    - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) ... Sir Walter Pole actor actors

    - The Black Tower (2015) ... Sir Walter Pole actor actors

    - Arabella (2015) ... Sir Walter Pole actor actors

    - All the Mirrors of the World (2015) ... Sir Walter Pole actor actors

    - The Education of a Magician (2015) ... Sir Walter Pole actor actors
    2015
  • Inside the Court of Henry VIII

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • The Eichmann Show

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • The Frankenstein Chronicles

    - Lost and Found (2015) ... Sir William Chester actor actors

    - The Frankenstein Murders (2015) ... Sir William Chester actor actors

    - The Fortunes of War (2015) ... Sir William Chester actor actors

    - All the Lost Children (2015) ... Sir William Chester actor actors

    - Seeing Things (2015) ... Sir William Chester actor actors
    2015
  • The Riot Club

    Tutor

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day

    Norman Skinner

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Secrets of Underground London

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Faberge: A Life of Its Own

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Fleming

    Rear Admiral John Godfrey

    actor

    actors

    - Episode 4 (2014) ... Rear Admiral John Godfrey actor actors

    - Episode 3 (2014) ... Rear Admiral John Godfrey actor actors

    - Episode 2 (2014) ... Rear Admiral John Godfrey actor actors

    - Episode 1 (2014) ... Rear Admiral John Godfrey actor actors
    2014
  • Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

    Host

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Secrets of the Tower of London

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Hyde Park on Hudson

    Bertie

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Secrets of the Manor House

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • First Man on the Moon

    Narrator (Voice UK)

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Hitler's Children

    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel

    Self - Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Death in Paradise

    - La Murder Le Diablé (2020) ... Donald McCormack actor actors
    2011
  • Dark Relic

    Friar George

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

    Self - Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Harold Pinter: A Celebration

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Albert Schweitzer

    Phil Figgis

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • The Blood of the Rose

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India

    Narrator - (Voice)

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

    Ted Heath

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Random Quest

    Colin

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • The First Emperor

    Himself - Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Einstein's Big Idea

    Humphry Davy

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • After the War: Conquering Germany

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Ring of the Nibelungs

    Gunther

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Van Helsing

    Dr. Victor Frankenstein

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

    Pongo (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

    - Chinese Walls (2006) ... Tony Wainwright actor actors
    2002
  • Foyle's War

    - The French Drop (2004) ... Lt. Col. James Wintringham actor actors
    2002
  • Iris

    Young Maurice

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Pandaemonium

    Robert Southey

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Nero's Golden House

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Waking the Dead

    - Life Sentence (2) (2002) ... Thomas Rice actor actors

    - Life Sentence (1) (2002) ... Thomas Rice actor actors
    2001
  • Bread and Roses

    Party Guest (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Complicity

    Neil

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Longitude

    Nevil Maskelyne

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Runt

    Pork

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • In Excess: The Death of Michael Hutchence

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Notting Hill

    Anna's Co-Star

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

    Major Edrington

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • The Dance of Shiva

    Lieutenant Davies

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Rupert's Land

    Rupert McKay

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • I Hate Christmas Too

    Soldier

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • The Ripper

    Prince Albert Victor Edward

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Danielle Steel's Zoya

    Nicolai

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Midsomer Murders

    - Death by Persuasion (2018) ... James Oswood actor actors

    - The Animal Within (2007) ... Jeremy Thacker actor actors
    1997
  • Jane Eyre

    St John Rivers

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Heavy Weather

    'Monty' Bodkin

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Carrington

    Gerald Brenan

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Persuasion

    Mr. Elliot

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

    Victor

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Open Fire

    Stephen Waldorf

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • A Feast at Midnight

    Chef

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • A Breed of Heroes

    Lt. Charles Thoroughgood

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

    Cyrian

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • The Maitlands

    Jack Maitland

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Archipel

    Alan Stewart

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Voices in the Garden

    Mark

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Howards End

    Leonard Bast

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

    King Caspian

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Reunion

    Count Konradin von Lohenburg

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot

    - Murder on the Orient Express (2010) ... Dr Constantine actor actors
    1989
  • The Chronicles of Narnia

    - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (4) (1989) ... King Caspian actor actors

    - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (3) (1989) ... King Caspian actor actors

    - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2) (1989) ... King Caspian actor actors

    - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1) (1989) ... King Caspian actor actors
    1988
  • Frankie and Johnnie

    Johnnie Mallett

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • NOVA

    - Einstein's Big Idea (2005) ... Humphry Davy actor actors
    1974