Timothy Spall

Birthday: 1957-02-27
Birthplace: Battersea, London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year Title Character
Untitled 13
Night and Day Mr Hilbery
Hamlet Polonius
2024-12-12 Rich Flu
2024-02-23 Wicked Little Letters Edward Swan
2023-12-24 The Heist Before Christmas Santa
2023-09-15 Bolan's Shoes Jimmy
2023-08-09 Northern Comfort Edward
2022-12-22 The Pale Blue Eye Superintendent Thayer
2022-12-04 This Is Christmas Ray
2021-11-04 Spencer Major Alistair Gregorys
2021-10-15 The Grand Duke Of Corsica Alfred Rott
2021-06-18 The Last Bus Tom
2020-12-11 It Snows in Benidorm Peter Riordan
2020-02-17 Grizzly II: Revenge Rob
2019-08-30 Mrs Lowry & Son L.S. Lowry
2019-05-10 The Corrupted Clifford Cullen
2019-03-30 This Time Away Nigel
2018-01-26 Early Man Chief Bobnar (voice)
2017-12-26 Finding Your Feet Charlie Glover
2017-09-28 The Changeover Carmody Braque
2017-07-27 The Party Bill
2017-03-30 The Journey Ian Paisley
2016-10-07 Stanley, a Man of Variety 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
2016-09-30 Denial David Irving
2016-06-22 Away Joseph
2016-05-25 Alice Through the Looking Glass Bayard (voice)
2015-12-27 Fungus The Bogeyman Fungus
2015-09-27 Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee (voice)
2015-08-15 Sucker The Professor
2014-12-11 9 Kisses Arm Wrestling Man #2
2014-10-31 Mr. Turner JMW Turner
2014-01-13 The Love Punch Jerry
2012-12-25 Room on the Broom Dragon (voice)
2012-11-09 Love Bite Sid
2012-10-18 Ginger & Rosa Mark
2012-09-27 Upside Down Bob Boruchowitz
2012-09-09 The Rise D I West
2012-08-01 Assassin's Bullet Dr. Kahn
2012-03-23 Boy
2012-02-12 Comes a Bright Day Charlie
2011-12-09 My Angel Mr. Lambert
2011-10-21 Reuniting the Rubins Lennie Rubin
2011-07-12 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Peter Pettigrew
2011-03-25 Wake Wood Arthur
2010-11-26 The King's Speech Winston Churchill
2010-11-17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Peter Pettigrew
2010-10-08 Jackboots on Whitehall Churchill (voice)
2010-05-21 Heartless George Morgan
2010-03-03 Alice in Wonderland The Bloodhound (voice)
2009-12-20 The Fattest Man in Britain Georgie Godwin
2009-10-15 From Time to Time Boggis
2009-09-24 Desert Flower Terry Donaldson
2009-08-22 Gunrush Doug Becket
2009-07-15 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Peter Pettigrew
2009-03-27 The Damned United Peter Taylor
2008-09-19 Appaloosa Phil Olson
2007-12-20 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Beadle
2007-11-20 Enchanted Nathaniel
2007-11-04 A Room with a View Mr Emerson
2007-09-13 Death Defying Acts Sugarman
2007-07-08 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
2006-10-29 Mysterious Creatures Bill Ainscow
2005-12-07 Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman Albert Pierrepoint
2005-11-16 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Wormtail
2005-03-26 Mr Harvey Lights a Candle Malcolm Harvey
2005-02-22 Cherished Terry Cannings
2004-12-16 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Mr. Poe
2004-05-31 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Peter Pettigrew
2003-12-05 The Last Samurai Simon Graham
2003-10-09 Gettin' Square Darren Barrington
2003-05-25 My House in Umbria Quinty
2002-12-27 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Cheeryble
2002-05-17 All or Nothing Phil
2002-04-14 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades Cunningham
2001-12-24 Ivor the Invisible Dad (voice)
2001-12-14 Vanilla Sky Thomas Tipp
2001-09-14 Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise Tommy Rag
2001-09-04 Rock Star Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
2001-08-24 Lucky Break Cliff
2001-03-07 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001-01-20 Intimacy Andy, Claire's husband
2000-06-23 Chicken Run Nick (voice)
2000-05-01 Vatel Gourville
2000-03-31 Love's Labour's Lost Armado
2000-01-01 Rough for Theatre II B
1999-12-15 Topsy-Turvy Richard Temple (The Mikado)
1999-11-12 The Clandestine Marriage Sterling
1998-11-27 Immortality Inspector Healey
1998-10-30 Still Crazy David "Beano" Baggot
1998-01-01 Neville's Island Gordon
1996-12-25 Hamlet Rosencrantz
1996-05-24 Secrets & Lies Maurice Purley
1992-11-28 Roots Jimmy Beales
1992-09-23 Dread Poets' Society Derek
1991-11-03 Not Mozart: WAM! Limited Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
1991-10-19 Nona Chico
1991-07-10 Broke Francis Meeks
1990-12-26 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson Pig Robinson
1990-11-15 Life Is Sweet Aubrey
1990-10-25 The Sheltering Sky Eric Lyle
1990-09-09 1871 Ramborde
1990-05-16 White Hunter, Black Heart Hodkins
1989-01-04 David Macaulay: Pyramid Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
1988-10-06 Dream Demon Peck
1988-09-07 To Kill a Priest Igor
1988-06-30 Crusoe Reverend Milne
1988-01-01 Journey's End Lt. Trotter
1987-12-06 Body Contact Paul
1986-11-30 Gothic Dr. Polidori
1985-10-18 Dutch Girls Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
1985-08-16 The Bride Paulus
1982-11-02 The Missionary Parswell
1982-10-01 Remembrance Douglas
1982-03-23 Oliver Twist 1st Constable
1982-03-16 Home Sweet Home Gordon
1982-01-12 A Cotswold Death Detective Sergeant Baxter
1981-12-29 The Three Sisters Andrei
1981-10-13 The Cherry Orchard Epikhodov
1981-01-01 Say No to Strangers
1980-02-29 S.O.S. Titanic Jim (uncredited)
1979-11-21 The Brylcreem Boys Shorty
1979-09-14 Quadrophenia Projectionist
1978-11-29 The Vanishing Army Wainwright