Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 27, 1957
Place of Birth
Battersea, London, England, UK
Credits
189 titles
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
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Terence Hilbery
Hamlet
Polonius
Goodbye June
Bernie
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
Death Valley
John Chapel
Rich Flu
Sebastian Snail Sr.
Wicked Little Letters
Edward Swan
The Heist Before Christmas
Santa
Bolan's Shoes
Jimmy
Northern Comfort
Edward
The Sixth Commandment
Peter Farquhar
The Pale Blue Eye
Superintendent Thayer
This Is Christmas
Ray
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
Remembers…
Self
Spencer
Major Alistair Gregorys
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
Alfred Rott
The Last Bus
Tom
It Snows in Benidorm
Peter Riordan
Grizzly II: Revenge
Rob (uncredited)
Mrs Lowry & Son
L.S. Lowry
Perpetual Grace LTD
Donald DeLoash
Summer of Rockets
Lord Arthur Wallington
Hatton Garden
Terry Perkins
The Corrupted
Clifford Cullen
This Time Away
Nigel
Early Man
Chief Bobnar (voice)
Finding Your Feet
Charlie Glover
The Changeover
Carmody Braque
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Ed Jacobson
The Party
Bill
The Journey
Ian Paisley
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
Denial
David Irving
Away
Joseph
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus
Fungus The Bogeyman
Fungus
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self / Nick
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee (voice)
Sucker
The Professor
The Enfield Haunting
Maurice Grosse
Wolf Hall
Duke of Norfolk
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The One and Only Mike Leigh
Self
Mr. Turner
JMW Turner
9 Kisses
Bartender
The Love Punch
Jerry
Back with the Boys Again
Himself
Blandings
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth