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Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90
The actor, whose work ranged from Shakespeare to EastEnders and the TV series Great Canal Journeys, was a familiar face to audiences from the 1960s onwards
The actor Timothy West, whose career ranged from Shakespeare, Ibsen and Pinter on stage to TV appearances in Brass, EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys (with his wife, Prunella Scales), has died aged 90. He also became known for portraying real-life characters on stage and screen, such as the designer William Morris and conductor Thomas Beecham as well as political figures including Mikhail Gorbachev, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. 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 (one of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected) in 1980 and had roles in adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novels Hard Times, Oliver Twist and Bleak House.
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