
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 · 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
- 2021 · The Last Bus as Tom
- 2020 · It Snows in Benidorm as Peter Riordan
- 2020 · Grizzly II: Revenge as Rob (uncredited)
- 2019 · Mrs Lowry & Son as L.S. Lowry
- 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
- 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
- 2017 · The Journey as Ian Paisley
- 2016 · Denial as David Irving
- 2016 · Away as Joseph
- 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 · The Enfield Haunting as Maurice Grosse
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Duke of Norfolk
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · 9 Kisses as Arm Wrestling Man #2
- 2014 · Mr. Turner as JMW Turner
- 2014 · The Love Punch as Jerry
- 2013 · Blandings as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
- 2012 · Room on the Broom as Dragon (voice)
- 2012 · Love Bite as Sid
- 2012 · London 2012 Olympic Games as Self
- 2012 · Ginger & Rosa as Mark
- 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
- 2011 · My Angel as Mr. Lambert
- 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 · 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 · 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 · A Room with a View as Mr Emerson
- 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 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The Street as Eddie McEvoy
- 2005 · Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman as Albert Pierrepoint
- 2005 · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Wormtail
- 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 · Gettin' Square as Darren Barrington
- 2003 · One Life as
- 2003 · My House in Umbria as Quinty
- 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Charles Cheeryble
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · All or Nothing as Phil
- 2002 · Bodily Harm as Mitchel Greenfield
- 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 · Intimacy as Andy, Claire's husband
- 2000 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades as Cunningham
- 2000 · Chicken Run as Nick (voice)
- 2000 · Vatel as Gourville
- 2000 · Love's Labour's Lost as Armado
- 1999 · Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
- 1999 · Shooting the Past as
- 1998 · Immortality as Inspector Healey
- 1998 · Still Crazy as David "Beano" Baggot
- 1998 · Our Mutual Friend as
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · The Hunger as Salesman
- 1996 · Hamlet as Rosencrantz
- 1996 · Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley
- 1994 · Nice Day at the Office as
- 1994 · The Danny Baker Show as
- 1994 · Outside Edge as
- 1993 · Frank Stubbs Promotes as Frank Stubbs
- 1992 · The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Cunningham - Masseur
- 1991 · Murder Most Horrid as Pathologist
- 1991 · Pebble Mill as Self
- 1991 · Performance as Jimmy Beales
- 1991 · Performance as Chico
- 1991 · Spender as Robert Cunningham
- 1990 · Life Is Sweet as Aubrey
- 1990 · The Sheltering Sky as Eric Lyle
- 1990 · White Hunter, Black Heart as Hodkins
- 1988 · Dream Demon as Peck
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1988 · To Kill a Priest as Igor
- 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
- 1987 · Gothic as Dr. Polidori
- 1985 · The Bride as Paulus
- 1983 · Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Barry Taylor
- 1982 · Oliver Twist as 1st Constable
- 1980 · S.O.S. Titanic as Jim (uncredited)
- 1979 · Quadrophenia as Projectionist
- 1970 · Play for Today as Gordon
- Future · Hamlet as Polonius
- 1982 · The Missionary as Parswell
- Future · Death Valley as John Chapel
- Future · Night and Day as Mr Hilbery
- 2023 · The Heist Before Christmas as Santa
- 2023 · Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy
- 2019 · This Time Away as Nigel
- 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
- 2015 · Fungus The Bogeyman as Fungus
- 2015 · Sucker as The Professor
- 2014 · The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
- 2013 · Back With The Boys Again as Himself
- 2012 · Comes a Bright Day as Charlie
- 2011 · Reuniting the Rubins as Lennie Rubin
- 2009 · The Fattest Man in Britain as Georgie Godwin
- 2009 · Gunrush as Doug Becket
- 2006 · Mysterious Creatures as Bill Ainscow
- 2006 · Teenage Tourettes Camp as Narrator
- 2005 · Mr Harvey Lights a Candle as Malcolm Harvey
- 2005 · Cherished as Terry Cannings
- 2002 · Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self
- 2001 · Ivor the Invisible as Dad (voice)
- 2001 · Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise as Tommy Rag
- 2001 · The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as
- 2000 · The Thing about Vince as Vince skinner
- 2000 · Rough for Theatre II as B
- 1999 · The Clandestine Marriage as Sterling
- 1998 · Neville's Island as Gordon
- 1997 · The Swords as Salesman
- 1992 · Roots as Jimmy Beales
- 1992 · Dread Poets' Society as Derek
- 1991 · Not Mozart: WAM! Limited as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
- 1991 · Nona as Chico
- 1991 · Broke as Francis Meeks
- 1990 · The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Pig Robinson
- 1990 · 1871 as Ramborde
- 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
- 1987 · Body Contact as Paul
- 1985 · Dutch Girls as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
- 1982 · Remembrance as Douglas
- 1982 · Home Sweet Home as Gordon
- 1982 · A Cotswold Death as Detective Sergeant Baxter
- 1981 · The Three Sisters as Andrei
- 1981 · The Cherry Orchard as Epikhodov
- 1978 · The Vanishing Army as Wainwright
- Future · Goodbye June as
- Future · Untitled 13 as
- 1981 · Say No to Strangers as
- 1979 · The Brylcreem Boys as Shorty
- 1970 · Play for Today as Detective Sergeant Baxter