Timothy Spall
Timothy Leonard Spall (born February 27, 1957) is an English actor and presenter. He became a household name in the UK after appearing as Barry Spencer Taylor in the 1983 ITV comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Spall performed in Secrets & Lies (1996), and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Subsequently, he starred in many films, including Hamlet (1996), Still Crazy (1998), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Enchanted (2007), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Damned United (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Ginger and Rosa (2012), Denial (2016), and The Party (2017). He voiced Nick, a cynical, portly rat in Chicken Run (2000). He played Peter Pettigrew in five Harry Potter films, from Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). Spall has collaborated with director Mike Leigh, making six films together: Home Sweet Home (1982), Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), and Mr. Turner (2014). Spall won great acclaim for his performance in the last of these for his portrayal as J. M. W. Turner winning him the Best Actor Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He starred in the television documentary Timothy Spall: ...at Sea (2010–2012) and in 2019 he appeared as Lord Arthur Wallington in the 6-part BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Rich Flu as
- 2024 · Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light as Duke of Norfolk
- 2024 · Wicked Little Letters as Edward Swan
- 2023 · Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy
- 2021 · The Grand Duke Of Corsica as Alfred Rott
- 2020 · It Snows in Benidorm as Peter Riordan
- 2020 · Grizzly II: Revenge as Rob (uncredited)
- 2019 · Mrs Lowry & Son as L.S. Lowry
- 2017 · The Changeover as Carmody Braque
- 2017 · The Journey as Ian Paisley
- 2016 · Stanley, a Man of Variety as Stanley/Stanley's Father/Stanley's Mother/Tony Hancock/Peter Sellers aka Dr Boob/George Formby/James Finlayson/Max Wall/Alistair Sim/Margaret Rutherford/Frank Randle/Max Miller/Noel Coward/Igor
- 2016 · Away as Joseph
- 2015 · A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self / Nick
- 2015 · Cider with Rosie as Laurie Lee (voice)
- 2012 · Love Bite as Sid
- 2012 · The Rise as D I West
- 2012 · Timothy Spall: All at Sea as Himself
- 2010 · Jackboots on Whitehall as Churchill (voice)
- 2010 · Heartless as George Morgan
- 2010 · Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea as Himself
- 2009 · The Fattest Man in Britain as Georgie Godwin
- 2007 · A Room with a View as Mr Emerson
- 2003 · Gettin' Square as Darren Barrington
- 2003 · My House in Umbria as Quinty
- 2002 · Bodily Harm as Mitchel Greenfield
- 2001 · Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise as Tommy Rag
- 2001 · Lucky Break as Cliff
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers as
- 2000 · Love's Labour's Lost as Armado
- 2000 · Rough for Theatre II as B
- 1999 · The Clandestine Marriage as Sterling
- 1999 · Shooting the Past as
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1994 · Nice Day at the Office as
- 1994 · The Danny Baker Show as
- 1990 · Life Is Sweet as Aubrey
- 1990 · 1871 as Ramborde
- 1988 · Dream Demon as Peck
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1988 · To Kill a Priest as Igor
- 1988 · Crusoe as Reverend Milne
- 1987 · Body Contact as Paul
- 1982 · The Missionary as Parswell
- 1982 · Oliver Twist as 1st Constable
- 1981 · The Cherry Orchard as Epikhodov
- 1980 · S.O.S. Titanic as Jim (uncredited)
- Future · Death Valley as John Chapel
- 2023 · The Heist Before Christmas as Santa
- 2023 · Northern Comfort as Edward
- 2023 · The Sixth Commandment as Peter Farquhar
- 2022 · The Pale Blue Eye as Superintendent Thayer
- 2022 · This Is Christmas as Ray
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
- 2021 · Spencer as Major Alistair Gregorys
- 2021 · The Last Bus as Tom
- 2019 · Perpetual Grace LTD as Donald DeLoash
- 2019 · Summer of Rockets as Lord Arthur Wallington
- 2019 · Hatton Garden as Terry Perkins
- 2019 · The Corrupted as Clifford Cullen
- 2019 · This Time Away as Nigel
- 2018 · Early Man as Chief Bobnar (voice)
- 2017 · Finding Your Feet as Charlie Glover
- 2017 · Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Ed Jacobson
- 2017 · The Party as Bill
- 2016 · Denial as David Irving
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Bayard (voice)
- 2015 · Fungus the Bogeyman as Fungus
- 2015 · Fungus The Bogeyman as Fungus
- 2015 · Sucker as The Professor
- 2015 · The Enfield Haunting as Maurice Grosse
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · 9 Kisses as Arm Wrestling Man #2
- 2014 · The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
- 2014 · Mr. Turner as JMW Turner
- 2014 · The Love Punch as Jerry
- 2013 · Back With The Boys Again as Himself
- 2013 · Blandings as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
- 2012 · Room on the Broom as Dragon (voice)
- 2012 · Ginger & Rosa as Mark
- 2012 · Upside Down as Bob Boruchowitz
- 2012 · Assassin's Bullet as Dr. Kahn
- 2012 · The Syndicate as
- 2012 · Boy as
- 2012 · Comes a Bright Day as Charlie
- 2011 · My Angel as Mr. Lambert
- 2011 · Reuniting the Rubins as Lennie Rubin
- 2011 · Timothy Spall: Back At Sea as Himself
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Peter Pettigrew
- 2011 · Wake Wood as Arthur
- 2010 · The King's Speech as Winston Churchill
- 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Peter Pettigrew
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as The Bloodhound (voice)
- 2009 · 10 Minute Tales as
- 2009 · From Time to Time as Boggis
- 2009 · Desert Flower as Terry Donaldson
- 2009 · Gunrush as Doug Becket
- 2009 · Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Peter Pettigrew
- 2009 · The Damned United as Peter Taylor
- 2008 · Appaloosa as Phil Olson
- 2007 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Beadle
- 2007 · Oliver Twist as Fagin
- 2007 · Enchanted as Nathaniel
- 2007 · Death Defying Acts as Sugarman
- 2007 · British Film Forever as Himself
- 2007 · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Mysterious Creatures as Bill Ainscow
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The Street as Eddie McEvoy
- 2006 · Teenage Tourettes Camp as Narrator
- 2005 · Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman as Albert Pierrepoint
- 2005 · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Wormtail
- 2005 · Mr Harvey Lights a Candle as Malcolm Harvey
- 2005 · Cherished as Terry Cannings
- 2004 · Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Mr. Poe
- 2004 · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Peter Pettigrew
- 2003 · The Last Samurai as Simon Graham
- 2003 · One Life as
- 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Charles Cheeryble
- 2002 · Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · All or Nothing as Phil
- 2002 · Bodily Harm as Mitchel Greenfield
- 2001 · Ivor the Invisible as Dad (voice)
- 2001 · Vanilla Sky as Thomas Tipp
- 2001 · Rock Star as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
- 2001 · The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as
- 2001 · Intimacy as Andy, Claire's husband
- 2000 · The Thing about Vince as Vince skinner
- 2000 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades as Cunningham
- 2000 · Chicken Run as Nick (voice)
- 2000 · Vatel as Gourville
- 1999 · Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
- 1998 · The Wisdom of Crocodiles as Inspector Healey
- 1998 · Still Crazy as David "Beano" Baggot
- 1998 · Our Mutual Friend as
- 1998 · Neville's Island as Gordon
- 1997 · The Hunger as Salesman
- 1996 · Hamlet as Rosencrantz
- 1996 · Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley
- 1994 · Outside Edge as
- 1993 · Frank Stubbs Promotes as Frank Stubbs
- 1992 · Roots as Jimmy Beales
- 1992 · Dread Poets' Society as Derek
- 1992 · The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Cunningham - Masseur
- 1991 · Murder Most Horrid as Pathologist
- 1991 · Not Mozart: WAM! Limited as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
- 1991 · Nona as Chico
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1991 · Broke as Francis Meeks
- 1991 · Performance as Jimmy Beales
- 1991 · Performance as Chico
- 1991 · Spender as Robert Cunningham
- 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
- 1988 · Journey's End as Lt. Trotter
- 1982 · Remembrance as Douglas
- 1981 · The Three Sisters as Andrei
- 1981 · Say No to Strangers as
- 1978 · The Vanishing Army as Wainwright
- Future · Night and Day as
- 1990 · The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Pig Robinson
- 1990 · The Sheltering Sky as Eric Lyle
- 1990 · White Hunter, Black Heart as Hodkins
- 1988 · Red Dwarf as Andy
- 1988 · The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Porfiry
- 1986 · Gothic as Dr. Polidori
- 1982 · Home Sweet Home as Gordon
- Future · Hamlet as Polonius
- 1985 · Dutch Girls as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
- 1985 · The Bride as Paulus
- 1983 · Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Barry Taylor
- 1982 · A Cotswold Death as Detective Sergeant Baxter
- 1979 · The Brylcreem Boys as Shorty
- 1979 · Quadrophenia as Projectionist
- 1970 · Play for Today as Gordon
- 1970 · Play for Today as Detective Sergeant Baxter
- Future · Untitled 13 as