British actor Timothy West, who played wartime leader Winston Churchill on screen three times, has died, He was 90. In a statement, his children said West died in his sleep “with his friends and family at the end.
From left, actors Sam West, his father Timothy West and his mother Prunella Scales during a photocall in London , July 15, 1999. Timothy West looks on at the launch of Talking Statues in central London , Aug. 19, 2014. Timothy West and Prunella Scales leave Lamb House in Rye, East Sussex, England, May 16, 2024. From left, actors Sam West, his father Timothy West and his mother Prunella Scales during a photocall in London , July 15, 1999.
“After a long and extraordinary life on and off the stage, our darling father Timothy West died peacefully in his sleep yesterday evening,” his children Juliet, Samuel and Joseph said. West, who was born in the north England city of Bradford, made his London stage debut in 1959, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s, where he earned his acting chops.
West played Churchill three times, in 1979’s “From Churchill and the Generals”, “The Last Bastion” five years later and in “Hiroshima” in 1995.
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