    timothy lancaster west, cbe (born 20 october 1934) is an english film, stage and television actor. ==early life and education== west was born in bradford, west riding of yorkshire, the son of olive (nÃ©e carleton-crowe) and actor lockwood west. he was educated at the john lyon school, a boys' independent school in harrow on the hill in london, at bristol grammar school in bristol,a moment towards the end of the play, p 14 where he was a classmate of julian glover and at regent street polytechnic (now the university of westminster).who's who in the theatre, 16th edition (1977), isbn 978-0-273-00163-8. ==career== west worked as an office furniture salesman and as a recording technician, before becoming an assistant stage manager at the wimbledon theatre in 1956.a moment towards the end of the play, p 27 ===stage=== west played repertory seasons in newquay, hull, northampton, worthing and salisbury before making his london debut at the piccadilly theatre in 1959 in the farce caught napping. he was a member of the royal shakespeare company for three seasons: the 1962 arts theatre experimental season (nil carborundum and afore night come), the 1964 'dirty plays' season (victor, the premiere production of marat/sade and the revival of afore night come) and the 1965 season at stratford and later at the aldwych theatre appearing in the comedy of errors, timon of athens, the jew of malta, love's labour's lost and peter hall's production of the government inspector, in a company which included paul scofield, eric porter, [[janet 
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