ACTOR

Timothy West

1934 - 2024

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Timothy Lancaster West (20 October 1934 – 12 November 2024) was an English actor with a long and varied career across theatre, film, and television. He began acting in repertory theatres in the 1950s before making his London stage debut in 1959 moving on to three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Timothy West has received more than 3,644,041 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Timothy West is the 6,199th most popular actor (down from 4,868th in 2019), the 4,585th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,781st in 2019) and the 705th most popular British Actor.

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  • 3.6M

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  • 44.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Timothy West ranks 6,199 out of 13,578Before him are Luke Askew, Karra Elejalde, Nadja Regin, Charles Clary, Dorothy Janis, and Alexey Gribov. After him are Megan Follows, Faye Grant, Alex Jennings, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Zully Moreno, and Albert Salmi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Timothy West ranks 458Before him are King Curtis, Richard Briers, Carmine Caridi, Peter McParland, Károly Wieland, and Ion Panțuru. After him are Jimmy Garrison, Sylvia Syms, Ruskin Bond, Gerry Hitchens, Mark Strand, and Hans Mild. Among people deceased in 2024, Timothy West ranks 342Before him are Frank Auerbach, Guram Kostava, Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem, E. Allen Emerson, Stephen Laybutt, and Jon Landau. After him are Klaus Töpfer, Mitzi Gaynor, Toumani Diabaté, Ramiro Blacut, Vic Seixas, and Steve Lawrence.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Timothy West ranks 4,585 out of 8,785Before him are Irene Steer (1889), Thomas Linacre (1460), John Rae (1813), Geoffrey Crossley (1921), Richard Thomas Lowe (1802), and Sean Dyche (1971). After him are Thomas Campbell (1777), Michael Caton-Jones (1957), George Fenton (1950), Alex Jennings (1957), Gerald Scarfe (1936), and Delia Derbyshire (1937).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Timothy West ranks 705Before him are Susan Hampshire (1937), Jeremy Kemp (1935), Richard Briers (1934), Jack Davenport (1973), Mischa Barton (1986), and David Robb (1947). After him are Alex Jennings (1957), Brendan Coyle (1963), Molly Peters (1942), Spottiswoode Aitken (1868), Sylvia Syms (1934), and Parminder Nagra (1975).