Peter Strauss

The ranch has since been acquired by the National Park Service as the Peter Strauss Ranch. In October 2004, he was appointed artistic director of the Sheffield Theatres, succeeding Michael Grandage. Strauss also runs a successful citrus production business and is on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Arboretum. He donated a ranch property to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. He is also much sought-after as a narrator of television documentaries. He also starred in the 1970 film Soldier Blue. Sam West appears frequently on the stage, and has made a speciality of appearing in concert recitals: he performed the spoken lines from Shakespeare's Henry V, at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002. His other noted television miniseries credits include roles in Rich Man, Poor Man, and Masada. In the 2001 film, Iris, Sam West played the young Maurice, and his father, Timothy West, the older Maurice.

He won an Emmy Award for his role on the 1979 made-for-television movie The Jericho Mile. He studied English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, but was always destined for an acting career. Peter Strauss (born February 20, 1947) is an American television and movie actor, best known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s. Samuel West, sometimes billed as Sam West, (born June 19, 1966) is a British actor, the son of Prunella Scales and Timothy West.