
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
- 2024 · Rich Flu as Sebastian Snail Sr.
- 2024 · Wicked Little Letters as Edward Swan
- 2023 · The Heist Before Christmas as Santa
- 2021 · The Last Bus as Tom
- 2019 · Mrs Lowry & Son as L.S. Lowry
- 2019 · Summer of Rockets as Lord Arthur Wallington
- 2019 · The Corrupted as Clifford Cullen
- 2017 · The Journey as Ian Paisley
- 2016 · Away as Joseph
- 2015 · Fungus The Bogeyman as Fungus
- 2015 · Sucker as The Professor
- 2015 · The Enfield Haunting as Maurice Grosse
- 2014 · The Love Punch as Jerry
- 2012 · Room on the Broom as Dragon (voice)
- 2012 · Love Bite as Sid
- 2012 · Ginger & Rosa as Mark
- 2011 · Timothy Spall: Back At Sea as Himself
- 2009 · The Fattest Man in Britain as Georgie Godwin
- 2008 · Appaloosa as Phil Olson
- 2007 · A Room with a View as Mr Emerson
- 2005 · Mr Harvey Lights a Candle as Malcolm Harvey
- 2003 · Gettin' Square as Darren Barrington
- 2003 · My House in Umbria as Quinty
- 2002 · Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- 2002 · All or Nothing as Phil
- 2001 · Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise as Tommy Rag
- 2000 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades as Cunningham
- 1999 · Shooting the Past as
- 1998 · Still Crazy as David "Beano" Baggot
- 1998 · Our Mutual Friend as
- 1996 · Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley
- 1994 · Nice Day at the Office as
- 1994 · Outside Edge as
- 1990 · The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Pig Robinson
- 1990 · The Sheltering Sky as Eric Lyle
- 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
- 1988 · Dream Demon as Peck
- 1988 · To Kill a Priest as Igor
- 1987 · Body Contact as Paul
- 1985 · Dutch Girls as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
- 1982 · The Missionary as Parswell
- 1982 · Oliver Twist as 1st Constable
- 1982 · Home Sweet Home as Gordon
- 1981 · The Three Sisters as Andrei
- 1979 · Quadrophenia as Projectionist
- 1978 · The Vanishing Army as Wainwright
- Future · Hamlet as Polonius
- 2023 · Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy
- 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 Grand Duke Of Corsica as Alfred Rott
- 2020 · It Snows in Benidorm as Peter Riordan
- 2020 · Grizzly II: Revenge as Rob (uncredited)
- 2019 · Perpetual Grace LTD as Donald DeLoash
- 2019 · Hatton Garden as Terry Perkins
- 2019 · This Time Away as Nigel
- 2018 · Early Man as Chief Bobnar (voice)
- 2017 · Finding Your Feet as Charlie Glover
- 2017 · The Changeover as Carmody Braque
- 2017 · Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Ed Jacobson
- 2017 · The Party as Bill
- 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 · Denial as David Irving
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
- 2015 · Fungus the Bogeyman as Fungus
- 2015 · A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self / Nick
- 2015 · Cider with Rosie as Laurie Lee (voice)
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Duke of Norfolk
- 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
- 2013 · Back With The Boys Again as Himself
- 2013 · Blandings as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
- 2012 · London 2012 Olympic Games as Self
- 2012 · Upside Down as Bob Boruchowitz
- 2012 · Wasteland as D I West
- 2012 · Assassin's Bullet as Dr. Kahn
- 2012 · The Syndicate as
- 2012 · Boy as
- 2012 · Timothy Spall: All at Sea as Himself
- 2012 · Comes a Bright Day as Charlie
- 2011 · My Angel as Mr. Lambert
- 2011 · Reuniting the Rubins as Lennie Rubin
- 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 · Jackboots on Whitehall as Churchill (voice)
- 2010 · Heartless as George Morgan
- 2010 · Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea as Himself
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
- 2009 · 10 Minute Tales as
- 2009 · Creating the World of Harry Potter as Self - 'Peter Pettigrew' and 'Wormtail'
- 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
- 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 · 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 · Top Gear as Self
- 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 · Lucky Break as Cliff
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers as
- 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 · Chicken Run as Nick (voice)
- 2000 · Vatel as Gourville
- 2000 · Love's Labour's Lost as Armado
- 2000 · Rough for Theatre II as B
- 1999 · Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
- 1999 · The Clandestine Marriage as Sterling
- 1998 · Immortality as Inspector Healey
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1998 · Neville's Island as Gordon
- 1997 · The Hunger as Salesman
- 1997 · The Swords as Salesman
- 1996 · Hamlet as Rosencrantz
- 1994 · The Danny Baker Show 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
- 1990 · Life Is Sweet as Aubrey
- 1990 · 1871 as Ramborde
- 1990 · White Hunter, Black Heart as Hodkins
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1988 · Crusoe as Reverend Milne
- 1988 · Red Dwarf as Andy
- 1988 · The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Porfiry
- 1988 · Journey's End as Lt. Trotter
- 1986 · Gothic as Dr. Polidori
- 1985 · The Bride as Paulus
- 1983 · Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Barry Taylor
- 1982 · Remembrance as Douglas
- 1982 · A Cotswold Death as Detective Sergeant Baxter
- 1981 · The Cherry Orchard as Epikhodov
- 1981 · Say No to Strangers as
- 1980 · S.O.S. Titanic as Jim (uncredited)
- Future · Night and Day as Mr Hilbery
- 1979 · The Brylcreem Boys as Shorty
- 1970 · Play for Today as Gordon
- 1970 · Play for Today as Detective Sergeant Baxter
- Future · Goodbye June as
- Future · Death Valley as John Chapel
- Future · Untitled 13 as