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Samuel Alexander Joseph West is an English actor, theatre director, and narrator. He has directed on stage and radio, and worked as an actor in theatre, film, television, and radio.
West in 2014
West at the London Film Festival screening of Hyde Park on Hudson in 2012
West in 2010
Darkest Hour (film)
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Darkest Hour is a 2017 British biographical war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten. It stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, in his early days as Prime Minister of the
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…replacing Rod Taylor. West's film career has continued with roles in films such as Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Notting Hill, Iris, Van Helsing and Darkest Hour. In 2004, he appeared in the year's highest rated mini-series on German television, Die Nibelungen, which was released in the United States in 2006 as…
Filming took place at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, as well as at Manchester Town Hall, to portray the Houses of Parliament.
Interior of 1959 Driving Motor No.1030, as used in the film.
Oldman's performance as Winston Churchill earned him his first Academy Award for Best Actor.