Oftentimes actors need to negotiate some scary maneuver that they’re really not prepared for. That happened to Samuel West, who’s co-starring in PBS’ “All Creatures Great and Small,” which returns on Jan. 8.
As a veterinarian in the English countryside, West had to face a rearing horse that landed a few feet from him. “I haven't really done any riding since ‘Hornblower,’” recalls West.
In that series he played a battalion commander astride his noble steed in the British Army. But that was 23 years ago.
