With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders and the series Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards
, whose career ranged from Shakespeare, Ibsen and Pinter on stage to TV appearances in Brass, EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys , has died aged 90.
“Tim was with friends and family at the end. He leaves his wife Prunella Scales, to whom he was married for 61 years, a sister, a daughter, two sons, seven grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. All of us will miss him terribly. Hugely popular, with a commanding stage presence but unassuming personal manner, West toured the country’s regional theatres with the same adventurous spirit with which he travelled its waterways. “I feel more useful when I’m on the road, touring this country and others, playing in different theatres, exploring different places, meeting different people,” he wrote in his witty 2001 memoir… “It’s no way to get rich, or famous, and it drives my agent mad, but I love it.
A regular presence on television since the 1960s, he played the eponymous king in Edward the Seventh in 1975, was the beekeeper in a sticky situation in Royal Jelly in 1980 and had roles in adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novels Hard Times, Oliver Twist and Bleak House. Hard Times, broadcast in 1977, was parodied in the 1983 TV series Brass where West played self-made northern businessman Bradley Hardacre. He was made a CBE in 1984.
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