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<\/p>\nBritish stage, film, and TV actor Timothy West has died. Known for a decades-spanning career that included portraying Winston Churchill three times and starring roles in U.K. soaps Coronation Street and EastEnders, West passed away \u201cpeacefully in his sleep\u201d on Tuesday, Nov. 19, his children, Juliet, Samuel and Joseph West announced. He was 90.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a long and extraordinary life on and off the stage, our darling father, Timothy West, died peacefully in his sleep yesterday evening,\u201d the statement read. \u201cTim 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 great-grandchildren. All of us will miss him terribly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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West\u2019s family added, \u201cWe would like to thank the incredible NHS staff at St George\u2019s hospital, Tooting, and at Avery Wandsworth for their loving care during his last days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England on Oct. 20, 1934 to actors Lockwood West and Olive Carleton-Crowe, per the BBC, West\u2019s career in entertainment began when he served as an assistant stage manager at the Wimbledon Theatre. He went on to enjoy a prolific career on both the stage and screen, becoming a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for three seasons in the \u201960s and playing the lead roles in Macbeth, King Lear, and more.<\/p>\n
On the screen, West played Commissioner Berthier in The Day of the Jackal (1973), and also appeared in Cry Freedom (1987), Luc Besson\u2019s The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), and Richard Eyre\u2019s biographical drama Iris (2001). On TV, he is best remembered for portraying Eric Babbage in Coronation Street in 2013 and Stan Carter in EastEnders between 2014 and 2015. He also starred as Bradley Hardacre in the comedy drama from Brass, appeared in the 1985 Agatha Christie series Miss Marple, and played Winston Churchill three times in Churchill and the Generals (1979), The Last Bastion (1984), and Hiroshima (1995). More recently, he hosted the Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys alongside his wife of 60 years, fellow actress Prunella Scales, and starred in the series Gentlemen Jack as American Revolution-era British officer Jeremy Lister from 2019 to 2022.<\/p>\n
Following his passing, former EastEnders star Tracy-Ann Oberman remembered him as \u201cthe most wonderful actor and human being.\u201d Broadcaster Piers Morgan called him \u201ca wonderful actor and delightful man,\u201d adding that his \u201cLife Stories interview with him, as the love of his life Prunella Scales sat in the audience, was so moving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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