A rising young British leading man with sensitive eyes and a mischievous boyish quality, Sam West (who has also performed under his full name, Samuel West) first won attention as Konradin, the pampered German aristocratic teen who becomes best friends with a Jewish lad, then is seduced by Hitler and the Nazi movement in "Reunion" (1989). He first began acting, on a limited scale with a small role in the 1979 BBC series "Nanny" but did not begin his career in earnest until graduating from Oxford in 1988. After several years working on stage, he again won critical acclaim as Leonard Best in the
