Timothy West – MRQE

Looking for Victoria (TV)

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Edward the Seventh”

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes.

Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Simon Gipps-Kent and Charles Sturridge as Edward in his youth, Annette Crosbie as Queen Victoria, Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan as Queen Alexandra, Robert Hardy as the Prince Consort, Alison Leggatt as the Duchess of Kent, and Felicity Kendal as Princess Vicky. It was directed by John Gorrie, who wrote episodes 7-10 with David Butler writing the remainder of the series.

The series also featured John Gielgud as Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Hordern as William Ewart Gladstone, Harry Andrews as young Edward’s tutor Colonel Bruce, Jane Lapotaire as Empress Marie of Russia, Christopher Neame as Kaiser Wilhelm II and, in one of his earliest roles, Charles Dance as Edward’s eldest son Eddy, who died at the age of 28. Gielgud previously played Disraeli in the 1941 film The Prime Minister.

The actresses playing Edward’s mistresses include Moira Redmond as Alice Keppel and Carolyn Seymour as Daisy Greville. Francesca Annis was featured in two episodes as Lillie Langtry which led to Butler writing a full series about Mrs Langtry’s life for Annis to star in, Lillie.

Masada (TV)

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When the Romans successfully take Jerusalem, a combative faction of Jews relocates to a mountaintop redoubt in Masada under the leadership of Eleazar ben Yair (Peter Strauss) and refuses to accept Roman rule. Despite being overwhelmed numerically, the rebels successfully employ guerrilla warfare tactics against a Roman legion under Flavius Silva (Peter O’Toole) until the Romans finally summon an expert in siege warfare, Rubrius Gallus (Dennis Quilley).

Colditz (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Oliver Twist (1982/I) (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

Martin Luther (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man’s relationship with God and, by extension, a redefinition of man’s relationship with authority. Filmed across Europe — from the rustic rural Germany to the opulence of the Vatican City — you’ll witness the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.

Edward II (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.

Florence Nightingale (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’, the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.

Endgame (2009/I)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The time is the late ’80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward insurrection. A British mining concern is convinced that their interests would be better served in a stable South Africa and they quietly dispatch Michael Young, their head of public affairs, to open an unofficial dialogue between the bitter rivals. Assembling a reluctant yet brilliant team to pave the way to reconciliation by confronting obstacles that initially seem insurmountable, Young places his trust in ANC leader Thabo Mbeki and Afrikaner philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. It is their empathy that will ultimately serve as the catalyst for change by proving more powerful than the terrorist bombs that threaten to disrupt the peaceful dialogue.

“Exile”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer’s disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One. The series received varyingly positive reviews.

John Simm received a BAFTA nomination for his role as Tom Ronstadt, as did the director John Alexander.