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Samuel West is the son of Prunella Scales and Timothy West. He was educated at Alleyn's School, a co-educational independent school in Dulwich, London, and later studied English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford. He has worked as an actor in a variety of dramatic media including: theatre, film, television and radio. As well as being an actor West has ... forged a career as a theatre director.
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Samuel West, sometimes billed as Sam West, (born June 19, 1966) is a British actor, the son of Prunella Scales and Timothy West. He studied English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, but was always destined for an acting career.
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One of Britain's more underrated actors, Samuel West first became known to international audiences in 1992 as the perpetually unfortunate Leonard Bast in the acclaimed Ismail Merchant/James Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's Howards End. The son of actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales, West was born in London on June 19, 1966. Taking to science rather than to acting when he was growing up, he attended Oxford University, where he planned to study physics. However, an interest in acting finally took hold, and West switched his studies to English and became involved with the University Experimental Theatre Club and Dramatic Society, touring Africa with it in 1986. Upon his graduation in 1988, West secured his first film role as a German aristocrat in Reunion.
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Samuel West, born after 1632 at Over, Cambridge, arrived in Port Royal (Charkleston, SC) on the Carolina 21 Mar 1669, and was granted 450 acres of land for arriving in the "First Fleet," by way of Barbadoes. He served as one of the five commoners on the Council of South Carolina 1670-1677. He apparently married a daughter of John Nichols, and died before 1706.
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Samuel West was widely praised for his performance as Leonard Bast in the Merchant Ivory film, Howard’s End. Other film credits include Carrington and Reunion. TV: Persuasion and Heavy Weather. Theatre: Valentine in Arcadia and Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Samuel West, Toby Stephens and Dervla Kirwan have been announced as the stars of the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. As previously reported, the play, directed by Roger Michell, begins previews on 31 May and opens on4 June.
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