Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 27, 1957
Place of Birth:
Battersea, London, England, UK
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Timothy Spall
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Rich Flu | Sebastian Snail Sr. |
| 2024 | Wicked Little Letters | Edward Swan |
| 2023 | Bolan's Shoes | Jimmy |
| 2023 | Northern Comfort | Edward |
| 2023 | The Heist Before Christmas | Santa |
| 2022 | The Pale Blue Eye | Superintendent Thayer |
| 2022 | This Is Christmas | Ray |
| 2021 | Spencer | Major Alistair Gregorys |
| 2021 | The Grand Duke Of Corsica | Alfred Rott |
| 2021 | The Last Bus | Tom |
| 2020 | It Snows in Benidorm | Peter Riordan |
| 2020 | Grizzly II: Revenge | Rob (uncredited) |
| 2019 | The Corrupted | Clifford Cullen |
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son | L.S. Lowry |
| 2019 | This Time Away | Nigel |
| 2018 | Early Man | Chief Bobnar (voice) |
| 2017 | The Party | Bill |
| 2017 | The Journey | Ian Paisley |
| 2017 | The Changeover | Carmody Braque |
| 2017 | Finding Your Feet | Charlie Glover |
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) |
| 2016 | Away | Joseph |
| 2016 | Denial | David Irving |
| 2016 | 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 |
| 2015 | Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee (voice) |
| 2015 | Fungus The Bogeyman | Fungus |
| 2015 | A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Self / Nick |
| 2015 | Sucker | The Professor |
| 2014 | The Love Punch | Jerry |
| 2014 | Mr. Turner | JMW Turner |
| 2014 | 9 Kisses | Arm Wrestling Man #2 |
| 2014 | The One and Only Mike Leigh | Self |
| 2013 | Back With The Boys Again | Himself |
| 2012 | Upside Down | Bob Boruchowitz |
| 2012 | Ginger & Rosa | Mark |
| 2012 | Love Bite | Sid |
| 2012 | Wasteland | D I West |
| 2012 | Room on the Broom | Dragon (voice) |
| 2012 | Comes a Bright Day | Charlie |
| 2012 | Assassin's Bullet | Dr. Kahn |
| 2012 | Boy | |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Peter Pettigrew |
| 2011 | Wake Wood | Arthur |
| 2011 | Reuniting the Rubins | Lennie Rubin |
| 2011 | My Angel | Mr. Lambert |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice) |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Peter Pettigrew |
| 2010 | Heartless | George Morgan |
| 2010 | Jackboots on Whitehall | Churchill (voice) |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Winston Churchill |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Peter Pettigrew |
| 2009 | The Damned United | Peter Taylor |
| 2009 | Desert Flower | Terry Donaldson |
| 2009 | The Fattest Man in Britain | Georgie Godwin |
| 2009 | From Time to Time | Boggis |
| 2009 | Gunrush | Doug Becket |
| 2008 | Appaloosa | Phil Olson |
| 2007 | Enchanted | Nathaniel |
| 2007 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Beadle |
| 2007 | Death Defying Acts | Sugarman |
| 2007 | A Room with a View | Mr Emerson |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Peter Pettigrew (uncredited) |
| 2006 | Teenage Tourettes Camp | Narrator |
| 2006 | Mysterious Creatures | Bill Ainscow |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Wormtail |
| 2005 | Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman | Albert Pierrepoint |
| 2005 | Mr Harvey Lights a Candle | Malcolm Harvey |
| 2005 | Cherished | Terry Cannings |
| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Peter Pettigrew |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Mr. Poe |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Simon Graham |
| 2003 | Gettin' Square | Darren Barrington |
| 2003 | My House in Umbria | Quinty |
| 2002 | All or Nothing | Phil |
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Cheeryble |
| 2002 | Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages | Self |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | Thomas Tipp |
| 2001 | Intimacy | Andy, Claire's husband |
| 2001 | Lucky Break | Cliff |
| 2001 | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | |
| 2001 | Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise | Tommy Rag |
| 2001 | Ivor the Invisible | Dad (voice) |
| 2001 | Rock Star | Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager |
| 2000 | Chicken Run | Nick (voice) |
| 2000 | Vatel | Gourville |
| 2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | Armado |
| 2000 | Rough for Theatre II | B |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades | Cunningham |
| 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | Richard Temple (The Mikado) |
| 1999 | The Clandestine Marriage | Sterling |
| 1998 | Immortality | Inspector Healey |
| 1998 | Still Crazy | David "Beano" Baggot |
| 1998 | Neville's Island | Gordon |
| 1997 | The Swords | Salesman |
| 1996 | Secrets & Lies | Maurice Purley |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Rosencrantz |
| 1992 | Roots | Jimmy Beales |
| 1992 | Dread Poets' Society | Derek |
| 1991 | Not Mozart: WAM! Limited | Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart |
| 1991 | Broke | Francis Meeks |
| 1991 | Nona | Chico |
| 1990 | The Sheltering Sky | Eric Lyle |
| 1990 | Life Is Sweet | Aubrey |
| 1990 | 1871 | Ramborde |
| 1990 | White Hunter, Black Heart | Hodkins |
| 1990 | The Tale of Little Pig Robinson | Pig Robinson |
| 1989 | David Macaulay: Pyramid | Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice) |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Igor |
| 1988 | Dream Demon | Peck |
| 1988 | Crusoe | Reverend Milne |
| 1988 | Journey's End | Lt. Trotter |
| 1987 | Gothic | Dr. Polidori |
| 1987 | Body Contact | Paul |
| 1985 | Dutch Girls | Lyndon Baines Jellicoe |
| 1985 | The Bride | Paulus |
| 1982 | Oliver Twist | 1st Constable |
| 1982 | The Missionary | Parswell |
| 1982 | Home Sweet Home | Gordon |
| 1982 | Remembrance | Douglas |
| 1982 | A Cotswold Death | Detective Sergeant Baxter |
| 1981 | Say No to Strangers | Stranger |
| 1981 | The Three Sisters | Andrei |
| 1981 | The Cherry Orchard | Epikhodov |
| 1980 | S.O.S. Titanic | Jim (uncredited) |
| 1979 | Quadrophenia | Projectionist |
| 1979 | The Brylcreem Boys | Shorty |
| 1978 | The Vanishing Army | Wainwright |
| Untitled 13 | ||
| Night and Day | Mr Hilbery | |
| Hamlet | Polonius | |
| Goodbye June |