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.
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Movies (38)
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
as Mr Hilbery
2026
Hamlet
as Polonius
2026
Goodbye June
as Bernie
2025
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Rich Flu
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
2024
Wicked Little Letters
as Edward Swan
2024
The Heist Before Christmas
as Santa
2023
Bolan's Shoes
as Jimmy
2023
Northern Comfort
as Edward
2023
The Pale Blue Eye
as Superintendent Thayer
2022
This Is Christmas
as Ray
2022
Spencer
as Major Alistair Gregorys
2021
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
as Alfred Rott
2021
The Last Bus
as Tom
2021
It Snows in Benidorm
as Peter Riordan
2020
Grizzly II: Revenge
as Rob (uncredited)
2020
Mrs Lowry & Son
as L.S. Lowry
2019
The Corrupted
as Clifford Cullen
2019
This Time Away
as Nigel
2019
Early Man
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
2018
Finding Your Feet
as Charlie Glover
2017
The Changeover
as Carmody Braque
2017
The Party
as Bill
2017
The Journey
as Ian Paisley
2017
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
Away
as Joseph
2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
2016
Fungus The Bogeyman
as Fungus
2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self / Nick
2015
Cider with Rosie
as Laurie Lee (voice)
2015
Sucker
as The Professor
2015
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self
2014
Mr. Turner
as JMW Turner
2014
The Love Punch
as Jerry
2014
Back with the Boys Again
as Himself
2013
Room on the Broom
as Dragon (voice)
2012
Love Bite
as Sid
2012
TV Shows (12)
Death Valley
as John Chapel
2025
The Sixth Commandment
as Peter Farquhar
2023
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor
2022
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Donald DeLoash
2019
Summer of Rockets
as Lord Arthur Wallington
2019
Hatton Garden
as Terry Perkins
2019
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Ed Jacobson
2017
Fungus the Bogeyman
as Fungus
2015
The Enfield Haunting
as Maurice Grosse
2015
Wolf Hall
as Duke of Norfolk
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
Blandings
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
2013