RIP Timothy West

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Star of stage and screen the actor Timothy West has checked out. He was 90.
I've just discovered his letters, I'm here I think on radio 4, detailing what a life he has had.
A really nice, gentle, caring bloke who did canal boat stuff with his wife Pru; he really cared for her. I hope she is ok and guess her family will take over her care. As someone who lived in Wandsworth, I had the pleasure of saying hello to him once or twice.
I'm gutted and have shed a tear.
Rip Tim.

 

[blossie33]

Sad to hear that, I know 90 isn't a bad innings but still...he was a very good actor and played in many things over the years.
Especially sorry for his wife, as she has dementia, I wonder how she is taking it
RIP Timothy

 

[farmerbarleymow]

RIP.

 

[sojourner]

Why is this in p&p?

 

[WouldBe]

RIP. I thought Pru would have gone first.

 

[StoneRoad]

RIP Tim - an exceptionally diverse & skilled actor.

I enjoyed his canal adventures ...
I hope Pru & his family are coping.

{I thought Pru would have gone first, as well}

 

[skyscraper101]

RIP Tim. I liked the canal shows. Even though I always worried about them both being fairly old to be dealing with some of the more physically challenging stuff. Did anyone else?

Poor old Pru. She's had dementia for 10 years. This can't be easy for her.

 

[surreybrowncap]

I've just discovered his letters, I'm here I think on radio 4, detailing what a life he has had.

Yes - I recently listened to the omnibus broadcast...
30 years of letters from 1962 - 1992
Very witty..
So much obvious love between this couple..

I'm Here I Think, Where Are You? by Timothy West (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds

Timothy West reads from his letters to his wife, Prunella Scales, between 1961 and 1992.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

RIP Tim. I liked the canal shows. Even though I always worried about them both being fairly old to be dealing with some of the more physically challenging stuff. Did anyone else?

Poor old Pru. She's had dementia for 10 years. This can't be easy for her.

Yeah, their canal programmes were perfect 'ill telly'; snuggled under the rug they were just right. The only mild threat being, as you say, the chance of them having one too many glasses of wine and then ending up in the water!

A good innings, but sad all the same.

 

[VivaE]

Yes - I recently listened to the omnibus broadcast...
30 years of letters from 1962 - 1992
Very witty..
So much obvious love between this couple..

I'm Here I Think, Where Are You? by Timothy West (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds

Timothy West reads from his letters to his wife, Prunella Scales, between 1961 and 1992.

www.bbc.co.uk

And so much joyful and moving commitment on his part to keeping the Pru he knew 'alive'. A masterclass in how to do 'in sickness and in health'.

Such a fine actor, such a fine man. And so sad that she's left without her anchor.

Timothy West, star of stage, film and television, dies aged 90

With a career ranging from Shakespeare to EastEnders Great Canal Journeys, actor was a familiar face from the 1960s onwards

www.theguardian.com

 

[Agrippa57]

I'll always remember him in "Brass". Just brilliant.

 

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Sad to hear that, I know 90 isn't a bad innings but still...he was a very good actor and played in many things over the years.
Especially sorry for his wife, as she has dementia, I wonder how she is taking it
RIP Timothy

On the news they played a clip of the two of them. Poor Pru didn't even appear to know what day it was or even if they were married. I wonder how aware she is that he has gone. Tim would be very hurt I'm sure knowing that he has gone before her.

 

[stdP]

I'll always remember him in "Brass". Just brilliant.

I think that was my introduction to him. One of many highlights of a fantastic career.

Five or so (so probably ten or more) years ago I found myself sat opposite him on a train out of Victoria, quietly buried in a book and looking well at ease with the world. When some oik swung a rucksack in to his head in classic rush hour fashion, he got a very sharp rebuke from him in one of his Gradgrind-esque schoolmasterly voices, leaving said oik attempting to mumble an apology. A rubbish showbiz anecdote to be sure, but I found it highly amusing to see this demure elderly gent turn in to a waspish disciplinarian in light of an all-too-common lack of etiquette.

 

[RubyBlue]

RIP. I thought Pru would have gone first.

OMG ~ she hasn’t? Poor pru When I first read earlier of Timothy’s death, I did look to see if Pru had gone as I hadn’t heard she had, but I didn’t see anything. My heart breaks for her. I hope to god she has no idea.

 

[Rompipalle]

Sad to hear that, I know 90 isn't a bad innings but still...he was a very good actor and played in many things over the years.
Especially sorry for his wife, as she has dementia, I wonder how she is taking it
RIP Timothy

I suspect that she won't even be taking this in.

My brother-in-law has early-onset Alzheimer's and my sister-in-law coped for many years with him at home but it finally become impossible to care for him as she would have wanted. Timothy West was a superb husband and helped her to cope with her condition admirably and has given her the very best he had to offer her as a life partner.

61 years of happy marriage is a wonderful milestone. He absolutely deserves to be recognised for that, every bit as much as for his ability and versatility as an actor.

 

[ID47]

Saw one episode with them on a boat in Portugal. He was so kind and loving to his poor wife. Bless him, RIP.

 

[RubyBlue]

Sincerely hope not.