Timothy Spall
Born on February 27th, 1957
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 Rich Flu
2024
Sebastian Snail Sr.
Details Wicked Little Letters
2024
Edward Swan
Details The Heist Before Christmas
2023
Santa
Details The Pale Blue Eye
2022
Superintendent Thayer
Details Spencer
2021
Major Alistair Gregorys
Details The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
Alfred Rott
Details It Snows in Benidorm
2020
Peter Riordan
Details Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
Rob (uncredited)
Details Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
L.S. Lowry
Details The Corrupted
2019
Clifford Cullen
Details Early Man
2018
Chief Bobnar (voice)
Details Finding Your Feet
2017
Charlie Glover
Details The Changeover
2017
Carmody Braque
Details Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
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
Details Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Details Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
Fungus
Details A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
Self / Nick
Details Cider with Rosie
2015
Laurie Lee (voice)
Details 9 Kisses
2014
Arm Wrestling Man #2
Details The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
Self
Details Back With The Boys Again
2013
Himself
Details Room on the Broom
2012
Dragon (voice)
Details Upside Down
2012
Bob Boruchowitz
Details Assassin's Bullet
2012
Dr. Kahn
Details Comes a Bright Day
2012
Charlie
Details Reuniting the Rubins
2011
Lennie Rubin
Details Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Peter Pettigrew
Details The King's Speech
2010
Winston Churchill
Details Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Peter Pettigrew
Details Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
Churchill (voice)
Details Alice in Wonderland
2010
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Details The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
Georgie Godwin
Details From Time to Time
2009
Boggis
Details Desert Flower
2009
Terry Donaldson
Details Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Peter Pettigrew
Details The Damned United
2009
Peter Taylor
Details Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
Beadle
Details A Room with a View
2007
Mr Emerson
Details Death Defying Acts
2007
Sugarman
Details Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Details Mysterious Creatures
2006
Bill Ainscow
Details Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006
Narrator
Details Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
Albert Pierrepoint
Details Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Wormtail
Details Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
Malcolm Harvey
Details Cherished
2005
Terry Cannings
Details Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
Mr. Poe
Details Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Peter Pettigrew
Details The Last Samurai
2003
Simon Graham
Details Gettin' Square
2003
Darren Barrington
Details My House in Umbria
2003
Quinty
Details Nicholas Nickleby
2002
Charles Cheeryble
Details Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
Self
Details Ivor the Invisible
2001
Dad (voice)
Details Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
Tommy Rag
Details Rock Star
2001
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Details The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
Character TBA
Details Intimacy
2001
Andy, Claire's husband
Details The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
Cunningham
Details Chicken Run
2000
Nick (voice)
Details Love's Labour's Lost
2000
Armado
Details Topsy-Turvy
1999
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Details The Clandestine Marriage
1999
Sterling
Details Immortality
1998
Inspector Healey
Details Still Crazy
1998
David "Beano" Baggot
Details Secrets & Lies
1996
Maurice Purley
Details Dread Poets' Society
1992
Derek
Details Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991
Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
Details The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Pig Robinson
Details The Sheltering Sky
1990
Eric Lyle
Details White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
Hodkins
Details David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
Details Journey's End
1988
Lt. Trotter
Details Dutch Girls
1985
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
Details Oliver Twist
1982
1st Constable
Details A Cotswold Death
1982
Detective Sergeant Baxter
Details The Three Sisters
1981
Andrei
Details The Cherry Orchard
1981
Epikhodov
Details Say No to Strangers
1981
Character TBA
Details S.O.S. Titanic
1980
Jim (uncredited)
Details The Brylcreem Boys
1979
Shorty
Details Quadrophenia
1979
Projectionist
Details The Vanishing Army
1978
Wainwright
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