Samuel West, sometimes billed as Sam West, (born June 19, 1966) is a British actor, the son of Prunella Scales and Timothy West. He studied English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, but was always destined for an acting career. June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Prunella Scales (born June 22, 1932) is a English actress best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom, Fawlty Towers. ... Timothy West (born October 20, 1934) is a British film, stage and television actor. ... Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

In the 2001 film, Iris, Sam West played the young Maurice, and his father, Timothy West, the older Maurice. They also played the same character at different ages in the TV film Over Here in 1996. Sam West appears frequently on the stage, and has made a speciality of appearing in concert recitals: he performed the spoken lines from Shakespeare's Henry V, at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002. In 2003, he played Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Iris is a movie that tells the story of British novelist Iris Murdoch and her relationship with John Bayley. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Henry V is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ... A Promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2004. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anthony Frederick Blunt (September 26, 1907 - March 26, 1983) was an English art historian and the Fourth Man of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ... Cambridge Spies was a 2003, a five part BBC drama concerning the lives of the Cambridge Five from 1934 to the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean to the Soviet Union. ...

He is also much sought-after as a narrator of television documentaries, including the acclaimed series The Nazis: A Warning from History and The Planets, both in 1997. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In October 2004, he was appointed artistic director of the Sheffield Theatres, succeeding Michael Grandage. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Samuel West at the Internet Movie Database