Timothy Spall
Acting
🎂 1957-02-27
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.
Cast credits(182)
Self
2007
Self
2002
Self - Guest
2006
Self
2006
Peter Pettigrew
2004
Wormtail
2005
Gordon
1970
Detective Sergeant Baxter
1970
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
2007
Peter Pettigrew
2010
Peter Pettigrew
2011
Peter Pettigrew
2009
Ed Jacobson
2017
Self
2014
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
2010
Andy
1988
Shorty
1974
Simon Graham
2003
Self
1998
Self – Actor
2022
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
2016
Duke of Norfolk
2015
Nathaniel
2007
Jimmy Beales
1991
Chico
1991
Salesman
1997
Nick (voice)
2000
Thomas Tipp
2001
Mr. Poe
2004
Beadle
2007
Wainwright
1977
Winston Churchill
2010
Cunningham - Masseur
1992
Andy, Claire's husband
2001
Self
1991
Pathologist
1991
Chief Bobnar (voice)
2018
Self - 'Peter Pettigrew' and 'Wormtail'
2009
Superintendent Thayer
2022
Edward Swan
2024
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
2001
Rosencrantz
1996
Maurice Grosse
2015
Major Alistair Gregorys
2021
Maurice Purley
1996
Jerry
2014
Donald DeLoash
2019
Bob Boruchowitz
2012
Phil Olson
2008
Eddie McEvoy
2006
Projectionist
1979
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
1985
Terry Donaldson
2009
Peter Taylor
2009
JMW Turner
2014
Edward
2023
David Irving
2016
Sebastian Snail Sr.
2024
Ray
2022
John Chapel
2025
2012
Gourville
2000
Frank Stubbs
1993
Charles Cheeryble
2002
Porfiry
1988
Robert Cunningham
1991
Sugarman
2007
David "Beano" Baggot
1998
Barry Taylor
1983
Laurie Lee (voice)
2015
Phil
2002
Paulus
1985
Eric Lyle
1990
Oswald Bates
1999
Peter Farquhar
2023
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
2013
Clifford Cullen
2019
Jim (uncredited)
1980
1998
2003
Joseph
2016
Terry Perkins
2019
Fagin
2007
Albert Pierrepoint
2005
Boggis
2009
Tom
2021
1994
Detective Sergeant Baxter
1982
Mark
2012
Alfred Rott
2021
Mr Emerson
2007
Wainwright
1978
Aubrey
1990
Bill
2017
Charlie Glover
2017
Bill Ainscow
2006
Ramborde
1990
Lord Arthur Wallington
2019
Gordon
1998
Armado
2000
Dragon (voice)
2012
Terry Cannings
2005
Francis Meeks
1991
Inspector Healey
1998
Lennie Rubin
2011
Igor
1988
Hodkins
1990
Parswell
1982
Sid
2012
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
1989
Dr. Polidori
1987
Self
2012
The Professor
2015
Rob (uncredited)
2020
Polonius
2025
Irving
2001
L.S. Lowry
2019
Georgie Godwin
2009
Doug Becket
2009
George Morgan
2010
Cunningham
2000
Sterling
1999
Jimmy
2023
Santa
2023
Epikhodov
1981
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
1999
D I West
2012
Dad (voice)
2001
Malcolm Harvey
2005
Pig Robinson
1990
Mr Hilbery
Tommy Rag
2001
Cliff
2001
Arthur
2011
2009
Carmody Braque
2017
Fungus
2015
Quinty
2003
Charlie
2012
Fungus
2015
Self - Guest
1988
Churchill (voice)
2010
Reverend Milne
1988
2001
Gordon
1982
1st Constable
1982
Dr. Kahn
2012
Darren Barrington
2003
Self
2014
Shorty
1979
Ian Paisley
2017
Lt. Trotter
1988
Douglas
1982
Salesman
1997
Himself
2007
Peter Riordan
2020
Derek
1992
Peck
1988
Self / Nick
2015
Himself
2011
Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
1991
Himself
2013
Himself
2010
Mitchel Greenfield
2002
1994
1994
Paul
1987
Self
2002
Himself
2012
Stranger
1981
Vince skinner
2000
Andrei
1981
Narrator
2006
Jimmy Beales
1992
2012
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
Chico
1991
Nigel
2019
B
2000
Mr. Lambert
2011