- Father of Timothy West
- Father-in-law of Prunella Scales.
- Grandfather of Samuel West, Joseph West and Juliet West.
- Balding, piercing-eyed British character actor, on stage from 1926 almost continuously until the late 1940's. Prior to acting worked in the coal mining industry in the north of England.
- Played Edward VII in the tv series Upstairs, Downstairs before his son, actor Timothy West took the role of the king.
- During the war he became a full time war reserve policeman while doing part time work for the BBC and wrote and organized police concerts in which son Timothy played in a lot of them.
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