Samuel West he made his radio directing debut with a production of "Money" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton on BBC Radio 3. West has appeared alongside his actor parents on several occasions; with his mother Prunella Scales in "Howards End" and "Stiff Upper Lips", and with his father Timothy West on stage in "A Number", "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Part 2". In two films ("Iris" in 2001 and the 1996 television film "Over Here"), Sam and his father have played the same character at different ages. In "Edward the Seventh", he and his brother Joseph played young sons of the title character, who
Prunella Scales mother of Captain Martin Crieff. Alongside husband Timothy West, she has appeared in "Great Canal Journeys" for Channel 4. Stuart Heritage, writing for "The Guardian" in November 2016, commented that it "is ultimately a work about a devoted couple facing something huge together. It’s a beautiful, meditative programme". Scales is married to the actor Timothy West, with whom she has two sons; the elder is actor and director Samuel West. She also has a step daughter, Juliet, by West's first marriage. Her biography, "Prunella", written by Teresa Ransom, was published by John Murray in 2005. She was appointed a Commander