Samuel West was born on June 19, 1966 in Hammersmith, London, England as Samuel Alexander Joseph West. He is known for his work on Howards End (1992), Van Helsing (2004) and Notting Hill (1999).

Filmography

• Sam & Ade Go Birding
• Remembers…
• Slow Horses — Peter Judd
• The Midwich Cuckoos — Bernard Westcott
• 2022The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour — Master of Ceremonies
• All Creatures Great & Small — Siegfried Farnon
• 2020Gatecrash — Policeman
• Small Axe — Mr. Hill
• 2020The Gentlemen — Lord Pressfield
• 2018On Chesil Beach — Geoffrey Ponting
• Trust — Professor Talbot
• 2017Darkest Hour — Sir Anthony Eden
• Edouard VIII, espionnage et liaisons dangereuses — Narrator
• Spying on the Royals — Narrator (voice)
• 2016All the world's a stage — Narrator (voice)
• The Crown — Anthony Blunt
• Westworld — Security Guard
• 2015Inside the Court of Henry VIII — Narrator
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Sir Walter Pole
• 2015Suffragette — Benedict Haughton
• 2015The Eichmann Show — Narrator
• The Frankenstein Chronicles — Sir William Chester
• 2014Faberge: A Life of Its Own — Narrator
• Fleming — Rear Admiral John Godfrey
• 2014If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day — Norman Skinner
• 2014Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath — Host
• Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath — Narrator
• 2014Secrets of Underground London — Narrator
• The Crimson Field — Elliot Vincent
• 2014The Riot Club — Tutor
• W1A — Richard Cartwright
• Mr Selfridge — Frank Edwards
• 2013Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Secrets of the Tower of London — Narrator
• 2013Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy — Narrator
• Eternal Law — Zak Gist
• 2012First Man on the Moon — Narrator (Voice UK)
• 2012Hyde Park on Hudson — Bertie
• King George and Queen Mary: The Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy — Narrator (Voice)
• 2012Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson — Narrator (voice)
• 2012Secrets of the Manor House — Narrator
• The Hollow Crown — Bishop of Winchester
• 2012Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies — Narrator (voice)
• Death in Paradise — Donald McCormack
• 2011Hitler's Children — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 2011Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters — Narrator
• Any Human Heart — Peter Scabius (Older)
• 2010Dark Relic — Friar George
• 2009Albert Schweitzer — Phil Figgis
• Desperate Romantics
• Garrow's Law — Thomas Erskine
• 2009The Blood of the Rose — Narrator
• 2009The Maharajas' Motor Car: The Story of Rolls-Royce in India — Narrator - (Voice)
• 2008Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley — Ted Heath
• World War Two: Behind Closed Doors — narrator
• 2006Random Quest — Colin
• 2005After the War: Conquering Germany — Narrator
• Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution — Narrator
• 2005Einstein's Big Idea — Humphry Davy
• 2005Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich — Narrator (voice)
• 2004Ring of the Nibelungs — Gunther
• Ring of the Nibelungs — Gunther
• 2004Van Helsing — Dr. Victor Frankenstein
• 2003101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure — Pongo (voice)
• Cambridge Spies — Anthony Blunt
• Foyle's War — Lt. Col. James Wintringham
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Tony Wainwright
• 2001Iris — Young Maurice
• 2001Nero's Golden House — Narrator
• 2001Pandaemonium — Robert Southey
• The Private Life of a Masterpiece — Narrator
• Waking the Dead — Thomas Rice
• 2000Bread and Roses — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 2000Complicity — Neil
• 2000Longitude — Nevil Maskelyne
• Longitude — Nevil Maskelyne
• Battle of the Sexes - In the Animal World — Narrator
• 1999Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters — Major Edrington
• 1999In Excess: The Death of Michael Hutchence — Narrator (voice)
• 1999Notting Hill — Anna's Co-Star
• 1999Runt — Pork
• 1999War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin — Narrator
• Hornblower — Major Edrington
• 1998Rupert's Land — Rupert McKay
• 1998Stiff Upper Lips — Edward
• 1998The Dance of Shiva — Lieutenant Davies
• 1997Danielle Steel's Zoya — Nicolai
• 1997I Hate Christmas Too — Soldier
• Midsomer Murders — Jeremy Thacker, James Oswood
• 1997The Ripper — Prince Albert Victor Edward
• 1996Jane Eyre — St John Rivers
• Over Here — Archie Bunting
• Strangers — Simon
• 1995Carrington — Gerald Brenan
• 1995Heavy Weather — 'Monty' Bodkin
• 1995Persuasion — Mr. Elliot
• 1995The Vacillations of Poppy Carew — Victor
• 1994A Breed of Heroes — Lt. Charles Thoroughgood
• 1994A Feast at Midnight — Chef
• 1994Open Fire — Stephen Waldorf
• 1993Archipel — Alan Stewart
• 1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time — Cyrian
• 1993The Maitlands — Jack Maitland
• 1993Voices in the Garden — Mark
• As Time Goes By — Terry
• 1992Howards End — Leonard Bast
• Performance — Jack Maitland
• Stanley and the Women — Stephen Duke
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Dr Constantine
• 1989Reunion — Count Konradin von Lohenburg
• Screen One — Lt. Charles Thoroughgood
• 1989The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — King Caspian
• The Chronicles of Narnia — King Caspian
• 1986Frankie and Johnnie — Johnnie Mallett
• Screen Two — Mark
• NOVA — Humphry Davy
• The Book of Water — Narrator/Geiser
• Time & Tide - A Trilogy

Appearances as themselves (16)

• Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius — Self
• 2025Return to Narnia — Self
• 2024Merchant Ivory — Self
• Great Canal Journeys — Self
• Secrets of Britain — Himself - Narrator
• 2013The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Winterwatch — Self
• Secrets of the Manor House — Self - Narrator
• 2011Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel — Self - Narrator
• 2010BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong? — Self - Narrator
• 2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration — Self
• English Heritage — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• The Planets — Himself - Narrator
• War of the Century — Self - Narrator
• The Nazis: A Warning from History — Self - Narrator