Editing Samuel West (section)

===Television===
West has appeared in many long-running series: ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'', ''[[Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead]]'' and ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot|Poirot]],'' as well as one-off dramas. He played [[Anthony Blunt]] in ''[[Cambridge Spies]]'', a [[BBC]] production about the four British spies, starring alongside [[Toby Stephens]] ([[Kim Philby|Philby]]), [[Tom Hollander]] ([[Guy Burgess|Burgess]]) and [[Rupert Penry-Jones]] ([[Donald Duart Maclean|Maclean]]). He reprised his role as Blunt in "Olding", the premiere episode of the third season of ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]'' released in 2019.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Miller |first=Julie |date=17 November 2019 |title=The Crown: Queen Elizabeth's Real-Life Betrayal Inside Buckingham Palace |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/the-crown-season-3-true-story |magazine=Vanity Fair |location=web |access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref>

In 2006, West took the lead role in a [[BBC Television|BBC]] production of ''[[Random Quest]]'' adapted from the short story by [[John Wyndham]] and the next year played [[Edward Heath]] in ''[[The Long Walk to Finchley|Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley]]'', also for the BBC. In 2010 he played Peter Scabius in the televised adaptation of [[William Boyd (writer)|William Boyd]]'s novel ''[[Any Human Heart]]'', while in 2011 he starred as Zak Gist in the ITV series ''[[Eternal Law (TV series)|Eternal Law]]''. In addition, he appeared in the BBC sitcom ''[[As Time Goes By (TV series)|As Time Goes By]]'', as Terry in the episode "We'll Always Have Paris" (1994).<ref>{{Cite web |date=1994-01-02 |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b50111c1fe0c4842aabcbfe6c595f7b1 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

West played Frank Edwards in the ITV drama ''[[Mr Selfridge]],'' and Sir Walter Pole in the 2015 [[BBC Television|BBC]] adaptation of ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell]]''.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

West stars in the [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel Five]] series (broadcast in September 2020) ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (2020 TV series)|All Creatures Great and Small]]'' as [[Donald Sinclair (veterinary surgeon)|Siegfried Farnon]]. A second six-episode series and Christmas special was broadcast in 2021, followed by a third season airing in late 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All Creatures Great and Small season 2 {{!}} release date, cast and plot {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/all-creatures-great-and-small-season-2-release-date/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=What's in Store for All Creatures Great and Small Season 3 |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/all-creatures-great-and-small-whats-in-store-for-season-3/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Masterpiece |language=en-US}}</ref>