Samuel West’s dad, the actor Timothy West, died in 2024 on the age of 90
Samuel West has informed how his All Creatures Nice and Small character reminds him of his late dad.
The star’s father was well-known actor Timothy West – identified for movies together with The Day of the Jackal and The Thirty 9 Steps – who died final 12 months at 90. Samuel has adopted in his performing footsteps and is starring as Siegfried Farnon within the Channel 5 interval drama, which is predicated upon books a few Yorkshire vet that Alf Wight wrote underneath the pen identify James Herriot.
The actor has now shared that there’s a “poignant” hyperlink between Siegfried and his father. Within the present, Siegfried has tins of sardines within the kitchen and in a current episode he tucked into some as a substitute of troubling Mrs Corridor for a meal.
He and the housekeeper (Anna Madeley) have been in a slow-burn storyline that has seen them develop an in depth bond, with followers satisfied a full-blown romance is coming. However within the current episode Siegfried was upset on the prospect of her leaving to go to household, and ready his personal meals to make her life simpler.
Samuel has now informed how the second made him consider his dad “by no means knowingly cooking, and really comfortable to open a tin of fish”.
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Discussing the sardines seen within the kitchen within the present, Samuel defined: “The true Siegfried Farnon, Donald Sinclair, was very keen on sardines.
“And Jim, Alf Wight’s son, informed me that he as soon as referred to as up the workplace and the housekeeper mentioned, ‘No, he can’t come to the telephone now, he’s turning his sardines.’ As a result of the sardines had been in oil, and he didn’t need them to dry out, he would flip them as soon as per week.”
“I’ve identified about this for quite a lot of years, we’ve all identified about it, however we’d by no means managed to get it into the story,” added the star.
Speaking about his character, he went on: “He doesn’t must rise up, he doesn’t want to wash – there’s nothing improper with chilly sardines from a tin, and he’s bought loads of them.
“He jogs my memory of my dad barely in that respect: by no means knowingly cooking, and really comfortable to open a tin of fish. In order that’s the story of the sardines.”
“However I do assume it’s fairly poignant,” he added.
All Creatures Nice and Small airs on Channel 5 at 9pm.
