Samuel West played in 8 movies in the Romance, Drama, Biography, Animation, Family, Music, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Documentary genres.
Samuel West got succeed with average imdb rating 6.4.
One of Britain's more underrated actors, Samuel West first became known to ecumenical audiences in 1992 as the perpetually terrible Leonard Bast in the acclaimed Ismail Merchant/James Ivory change of E.M. Forster's Howards Outcome.
The son of actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales, West was born in London on June 19, 1966. Taking to science slightly than to acting when he was growing up, he attended Oxford University, where he planned to review physics. However, an concern i
... n acting finally took hold, and West switched his studies to English and became involved with the University Conjectural Theatre Sisterhood and Dramatic Company, touring Africa with it in 1986.
Upon his graduation in 1988, West secured his first film role as a German aristocrat in Reunion. Although the pic was critically proficiently-received, it was largely unseen, and West afterward did most of his work on idiot box. His acclaimed acting in Howards End, since which he earned a British Academy nomination, gave him both greater respect and honour. He went on to appear in a number of films of varying quality, doing extraordinarily notable on in Persuasion (1995), Carrington (1995), and Jane Eyre (1996). He parodied the species of years dramas in which he had made his name with his post as an broke-crust prig in Piker Upper Lips in 1998, and that exact same year he inexorably flat through to modern dress in the Canadian mistiness Rupert's Come, earning a Genie nomination for his portrayal of a scrub-cut counsel reluctantly dragged on an odyssey across the wilds of British Columbia.
The following year, he was back in breeches and a frock coat for his bit part in Notting Hill, and that same year he could be seen enchanting to the mass in the commonplace British miniseries, Horatio Hornblower. In addition to his screen roles, West is known in his by birth country for his urge a exercise on the contrive, small screen, and radio, likeable many a listener to his deep, mellifluous voice.
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