Name Lockwood West Role Actor | Spouse Olive West (m. ?–1985) | |
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Full Name Harry Lockwood West Children Timothy West, Patricia West Movies The Satanic Rites of D, The Dresser, Jane Eyre, The Leather Boys, Young Sherlock Holmes Similar People Timothy West, Samuel West, Prunella Scales, Peter Yates, Sidney J Furie |
Harry Lockwood West (28 July 1905 – 28 March 1989) was a British actor. He was the father of actor Timothy West and the grandfather of actor Samuel West.
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Life and career
West was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England in 1905, the son of Mildred (née Hartley) and Henry Cope West, and through his mother a fourth cousin of the actress Margaret Lockwood, their common ancestor being Joseph Lockwood (c1758-1837), a former Mayor of Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire. West married the actress Olive Carleton-Crowe (died 1985) and with her had two children; a son, the actor Timothy West, and a daughter, Patricia.
He made his stage debut in 1926 as Lieutenant Allen in Alf's Button at the Hippodrome Theatre in Margate, Kent. His London stage debut was as Henry Bevan in The Barretts of Wimpole Street at the Queen's Theatre in 1931.
West's television appearances included Just William (1962), Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1964), No Hiding Place (1965), The Prisoner (1968), Doctor at Large (1971), Please Sir! (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1972), The Pallisers (1974), I, Claudius (1976), Porterhouse Blue (1987) and posthumously in Specials (1991).
His film appearances include A Song for Tomorrow (1948), Bedazzled (1967), Up the Junction (1968), Jane Eyre (1970), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) and as Geoffrey in The Dresser (1983) .