
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 · Death Valley as John Chapel
- 2024 · Rich Flu as Sebastian Snail Sr.
- 2024 · Wicked Little Letters as Edward Swan
- 2023 · Northern Comfort as Edward
- 2022 · This Is Christmas as Ray
- 2021 · The Grand Duke Of Corsica as Alfred Rott
- 2021 · The Last Bus as Tom
- 2019 · Mrs Lowry & Son as L.S. Lowry
- 2019 · The Corrupted as Clifford Cullen
- 2017 · Finding Your Feet as Charlie Glover
- 2017 · The Changeover as Carmody Braque
- 2017 · The Journey as Ian Paisley
- 2016 · Away as Joseph
- 2015 · A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self / Nick
- 2015 · Cider with Rosie as Laurie Lee (voice)
- 2014 · 9 Kisses as Arm Wrestling Man #2
- 2012 · Room on the Broom as Dragon (voice)
- 2012 · Love Bite as Sid
- 2012 · London 2012 Olympic Games as Self
- 2012 · Wasteland as D I West
- 2012 · Assassin's Bullet as Dr. Kahn
- 2012 · Timothy Spall: All at Sea as Himself
- 2012 · Comes a Bright Day as Charlie
- 2011 · My Angel as Mr. Lambert
- 2011 · Wake Wood as Arthur
- 2010 · Jackboots on Whitehall as Churchill (voice)
- 2009 · From Time to Time as Boggis
- 2007 · A Room with a View as Mr Emerson
- 2007 · Death Defying Acts as Sugarman
- 2005 · Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman as Albert Pierrepoint
- 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
- 2002 · Bodily Harm as Mitchel Greenfield
- 2001 · Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise as Tommy Rag
- 2001 · Lucky Break as Cliff
- 2001 · The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as
- 2000 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades as Cunningham
- 2000 · Love's Labour's Lost as Armado
- 1999 · Shooting the Past as
- 1998 · Immortality as Inspector Healey
- 1994 · The Danny Baker Show as
- 1989 · David Macaulay: Pyramid as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
- 1988 · Dream Demon as Peck
- 1988 · To Kill a Priest as Igor
- 1988 · Crusoe as Reverend Milne
- 1982 · The Missionary as Parswell
- 1980 · S.O.S. Titanic as Jim (uncredited)
- Future · Goodbye June as
- 2023 · The Heist Before Christmas as Santa
- 2023 · Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy
- 2023 · The Sixth Commandment as Peter Farquhar
- 2022 · The Pale Blue Eye as Superintendent Thayer
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
- 2021 · Spencer as Major Alistair Gregorys
- 2020 · It Snows in Benidorm as Peter Riordan
- 2020 · Grizzly II: Revenge as Rob (uncredited)
- 2019 · Perpetual Grace LTD as Donald DeLoash
- 2019 · Summer of Rockets as Lord Arthur Wallington
- 2019 · Hatton Garden as Terry Perkins
- 2019 · This Time Away as Nigel
- 2018 · Early Man as Chief Bobnar (voice)
- 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 · Fungus The Bogeyman as Fungus
- 2015 · Sucker as The Professor
- 2015 · The Enfield Haunting as Maurice Grosse
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Duke of Norfolk
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 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 · Ginger & Rosa as Mark
- 2012 · Upside Down as Bob Boruchowitz
- 2012 · The Syndicate as
- 2012 · Boy as
- 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
- 2010 · The King's Speech as Winston Churchill
- 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Peter Pettigrew
- 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 · The Fattest Man in Britain as Georgie Godwin
- 2009 · Creating the World of Harry Potter as Self - 'Peter Pettigrew' and 'Wormtail'
- 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 · 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 One Show as Self
- 2006 · The Street as Eddie McEvoy
- 2006 · Teenage Tourettes Camp as Narrator
- 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 · Top Gear as Self
- 2001 · Ivor the Invisible as Dad (voice)
- 2001 · Vanilla Sky as Thomas Tipp
- 2001 · Rock Star as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers 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 · Rough for Theatre II as B
- 1999 · Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
- 1999 · The Clandestine Marriage as Sterling
- 1998 · Still Crazy as David "Beano" Baggot
- 1998 · Our Mutual Friend as
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1998 · Neville's Island as Gordon
- 1997 · The Hunger as Salesman
- 1997 · The Swords as Salesman
- 1996 · Hamlet as Rosencrantz
- 1996 · Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley
- 1994 · Nice Day at the Office as
- 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 · Performance as Jimmy Beales
- 1991 · Performance as Chico
- 1991 · Broke as Francis Meeks
- 1991 · Spender as Robert Cunningham
- 1990 · The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Pig Robinson
- 1990 · Life Is Sweet as Aubrey
- 1990 · The Sheltering Sky as Eric Lyle
- 1990 · 1871 as Ramborde
- 1990 · White Hunter, Black Heart as Hodkins
- 1988 · This Morning as Self - Guest
- 1988 · Red Dwarf as Andy
- 1988 · The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Porfiry
- 1988 · Journey's End as Lt. Trotter
- 1987 · Body Contact as Paul
- 1987 · Gothic as Dr. Polidori
- 1985 · Dutch Girls as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
- 1985 · The Bride as Paulus
- 1983 · Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Barry Taylor
- 1982 · Remembrance as Douglas
- 1982 · Oliver Twist as 1st Constable
- 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
- 1981 · Say No to Strangers as Stranger
- 1979 · The Brylcreem Boys as Shorty
- 1979 · Quadrophenia as Projectionist
- 1978 · The Vanishing Army as Wainwright
- 1977 · BBC2 Play of the Week as Wainwright
- 1974 · Playhouse as Shorty
- 1970 · Play for Today as Gordon
- 1970 · Play for Today as Detective Sergeant Baxter
- Future · Hamlet as Polonius
- Future · Night and Day as Mr Hilbery
- Future · Untitled 13 as