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Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall

ActingBorn February 27, 1957 (age 69)Battersea, London, England, UK

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.

Filmography

2026Movie
2026
Hamlet

as Polonius

Movie
2025
Goodbye June

as Bernie

Movie
2025
Death Valley

as John Chapel

TV
2024
Rich Flu

as Sebastian Snail Sr.

Movie
2024
Wicked Little Letters

as Edward Swan

Movie
2023Movie
2023Movie
2023
The Sixth Commandment

as Peter Farquhar

TV
2022
The Pale Blue Eye

as Superintendent Thayer

Movie
2022Movie
2022TV
2022TV
2021
Spencer

as Major Alistair Gregorys

Movie
2021Movie
2021Movie
2020
It Snows in Benidorm

as Peter Riordan

Movie
2020
Grizzly II: Revenge

as Rob (uncredited)

Movie
2019
Mrs Lowry & Son

as L.S. Lowry

Movie
2019
Perpetual Grace LTD

as Donald DeLoash

TV
2019
Summer of Rockets

as Lord Arthur Wallington

TV
2019
Hatton Garden

as Terry Perkins

TV
2019
The Corrupted

as Clifford Cullen

Movie
2019Movie
2018
Early Man

as Chief Bobnar (voice)

Movie
2017
Finding Your Feet

as Charlie Glover

Movie
2017
The Changeover

as Carmody Braque

Movie
2017
The Party

as Bill

Movie
2017
The Journey

as Ian Paisley

Movie
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

Movie
2016
Denial

as David Irving

Movie
2016
Away

as Joseph

Movie
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)

Movie
2015Movie
2015TV
2015
Cider with Rosie

as Laurie Lee (voice)

Movie
2015
Sucker

as The Professor

Movie
2015
The Enfield Haunting

as Maurice Grosse

TV
2015
Wolf Hall

as Duke of Norfolk

TV
2014
Mr. Turner

as JMW Turner

Movie
2014
9 Kisses

as Bartender

Movie
2014Movie
2013Movie
2013
Blandings

as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth

TV
2012
Room on the Broom

as Dragon (voice)

Movie
2012
Love Bite

as Sid

Movie
2012Movie
2012
Upside Down

as Bob Boruchowitz

Movie
2012
The Rise

as D I West

Movie
2012Movie
2012Movie
2012Movie
2011
My Angel

as Mr. Lambert

Movie
2011
Reuniting the Rubins

as Lennie Rubin

Movie
2011
Wake Wood

as Arthur

Movie
2010
The King's Speech

as Winston Churchill

Movie
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall

as Churchill (voice)

Movie
2010
Heartless

as George Morgan

Movie
2010
Alice in Wonderland

as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)

Movie
2009TV
2009Movie
2009Movie
2009
Desert Flower

as Terry Donaldson

Movie
2009
Gunrush

as Doug Becket

Movie
2009Movie
2009
The Damned United

as Peter Taylor

Movie
2008
Appaloosa

as Phil Olson

Movie
2008
A Room with a View

as Mr Emerson

TV
2007
Oliver Twist

as Fagin

TV
2007
Enchanted

as Nathaniel

Movie
2007
A Room with a View

as Mr Emerson

Movie
2007Movie
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)

Movie
2006
Mysterious Creatures

as Bill Ainscow

Movie
2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

TV
2006TV
2006
The Street

as Eddie McEvoy

TV
2006Movie
2005
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

as Albert Pierrepoint

Movie
2005
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle

as Malcolm Harvey

Movie
2005
Cherished

as Terry Cannings

Movie
2004Movie
2003
The Last Samurai

as Simon Graham

Movie
2003
Gettin' Square

as Darren Barrington

Movie
2003TV
2003Movie
2002
Nicholas Nickleby

as Charles Cheeryble

Movie
2002
Top Gear

as Self

TV
2002Movie
2002
Bodily Harm

as Mitchel Greenfield

TV
2001
Ivor the Invisible

as Dad (voice)

Movie
2001
Vanilla Sky

as Thomas Tipp

Movie
2001
Rock Star

as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager

Movie
2001
Lucky Break

as Cliff

Movie
2001TV
2001Movie
2001
Intimacy

as Andy, Claire's husband

Movie
2000
The Thing about Vince

as Vince skinner

TV
2000
Chicken Run

as Nick (voice)

Movie
2000
Vatel

as Gourville

Movie
2000Movie
1999
Topsy-Turvy

as Richard Temple (The Mikado)

Movie
1999Movie
1999
Shooting the Past

as Oswald Bates

TV
1998
Immortality

as Inspector Healey

Movie
1998
Still Crazy

as David "Beano" Baggot

Movie
1998TV
1998
Parkinson

as Self

TV
1998Movie
1997
The Swords

as Salesman

Movie
1997
The Hunger

as Salesman

TV
1996
Hamlet

as Rosencrantz

Movie
1996
Secrets & Lies

as Maurice Purley

Movie
1994
Outside Edge

as Kevin Costello

TV
1993
Frank Stubbs Promotes

as Frank Stubbs

TV
1992
Roots

as Jimmy Beales

Movie
1992Movie
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

as Cunningham - Masseur

TV
1991
Murder Most Horrid

as Pathologist

TV
1991
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited

as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart

Movie
1991
Nona

as Chico

Movie
1991TV
1991
Performance

as Jimmy Beales

TV
1991
Performance

as Chico

TV
1991
Broke

as Francis Meeks

Movie
1991
Life Is Sweet

as Aubrey

Movie
1991
Spender

as Robert Cunningham

TV
1990Movie
1990
The Sheltering Sky

as Eric Lyle

Movie
1990
1871

as Ramborde

Movie
1990Movie
1989
Crusoe

as Reverend Milne

Movie
1989
David Macaulay: Pyramid

as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)

Movie
1988Movie
1988
This Morning

as Self - Guest

TV
1988Movie
1988
Red Dwarf

as Andy

TV
1988
Journey's End

as Lt. Trotter

Movie
1987Movie
1987
Gothic

as Dr. Polidori

Movie
1986
ScreenPlay

as Francis Meeks

TV
1986
ScreenPlay

as Derek

TV
1985
Dutch Girls

as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe

Movie
1985
The Bride

as Paulus

Movie
1985
A Crack in the Ice

as Pte. Postnikov

Movie
1983
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

as Barry Taylor

TV
1982
The Missionary

as Parswell

Movie
1982
Remembrance

as Douglas

Movie
1982
Oliver Twist

as 1st Constable

Movie
1982Movie
1982
A Cotswold Death

as Detective Sergeant Baxter

Movie
1981Movie
1981
The Cherry Orchard

as Epikhodov

Movie
1981Movie
1980
S.O.S. Titanic

as Jim (uncredited)

Movie
1979Movie
1979
Quadrophenia

as Projectionist

Movie
1978
The Vanishing Army

as Wainwright

Movie
1978Movie
1977TV
1974
Playhouse

as Shorty

TV
1970TV
1970
Play for Today

as Detective Sergeant Baxter

TV
Movie
Murdering Michael Malloy

as Michael Malloy

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayFebruary 27, 1957
Place of BirthBattersea, London, England, UK
Popularity2.1