Samuel West Samuel West Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is a third-generation English actor, theatre director and voice actor. He has directed on stage and radio, and worked as an actor across theatre, film, television and radio. He often appears as reciter with orchestras and performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002. He has narrated several documentary series, including five for the BBC centred on events related to the Second World War. West was born in London, the elder son of actors Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and the grandson of the actor Lockwood West. He
Bart the Mother to be a B story, but because it was too difficult to work into other episodes, it eventually became a primary plot. The episode features the final appearance of character Troy McClure and was dedicated to the character's voice actor, Phil Hartman, who was murdered by his wife on May 28, 1998, four months before the episode aired. In its original American broadcast, "Bart the Mother" finished 58th in ratings for the week of September 21–27, 1998, with a Nielsen rating of 7.4, translating to 7,355,600 households. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Bart's moral dilemma