Timothy Spall

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

Birth Location Battersea, London, England, UK
Born 1957-02-27

Movies

Wicked Little Letters as Edward Swan
2024
Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy
2023
Northern Comfort as Edward
2023
The Pale Blue Eye as Superintendent Thayer
2022
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
2016
2015
Cider with Rosie as Laurie Lee (voice)
2015
Sucker as The Professor
2015
9 Kisses as Arm Wrestling Man #2
2014
2014
Mr. Turner as JMW Turner
2014
The Love Punch as Jerry
2014
2013
Room on the Broom as Dragon (voice)
2012
Love Bite as Sid
2012
Ginger & Rosa as Mark
2012
Upside Down as Bob Boruchowitz
2012
The Rise as D I West
2012
Assassin's Bullet as Dr. Kahn
2012
Boy
2012
Comes a Bright Day as Charlie
2012
My Angel as Mr. Lambert
2011
Reuniting the Rubins as Lennie Rubin
2011
Wake Wood as Arthur
2011
The King's Speech as Winston Churchill
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall as Churchill (voice)
2010
From Time to Time as Boggis
2010
Alice in Wonderland as The Bloodhound (voice)
2010
The Fattest Man in Britain as Georgie Godwin
2009
Heartless as George Morgan
2009
Desert Flower as Terry Donaldson
2009
Gunrush as Doug Becket
2009
2009
The Damned United as Peter Taylor
2009
Appaloosa as Phil Olson
2008
Enchanted as Nathaniel
2007
A Room with a View as Mr Emerson
2007
Death Defying Acts as Sugarman
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
2007
Mysterious Creatures as Bill Ainscow
2006
2006
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman as Albert Pierrepoint
2005
2005
Cherished as Terry Cannings
2005
The Last Samurai as Simon Graham
2003
Gettin' Square as Darren Barrington
2003
My House in Umbria as Quinty
2003
Nicholas Nickleby as Charles Cheeryble
2002
All or Nothing as Phil
2002
Bodily Harm as Mitchel Greenfield
2002
Ivor the Invisible as Dad (voice)
2001
Vanilla Sky as Thomas Tipp
2001
Rock Star as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
2001
Lucky Break as Cliff
2001
Intimacy as Andy
2001
Chicken Run as Nick (voice)
2000
Vatel as Gourville
2000
2000
Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
1999
1999
The Wisdom of Crocodiles as Inspector Healey
1998
Still Crazy as David "Beano" Baggot
1998
Neville's Island as Gordon
1998
Hamlet as Rosencrantz
1996
Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley
1996
Roots as Jimmy Beales
1992
1992
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
1991
Nona as Chico
1991
Broke as Francis Meeks
1991
1990
Life Is Sweet as Aubrey
1990
The Sheltering Sky as Eric Lyle
1990
1871 as Ramborde
1990
1990
David Macaulay: Pyramid as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
1989
Dream Demon as Peck
1988
1988
Crusoe as Reverend Milne
1988
Journey's End as Lt. Trotter
1988
Body Contact as Paul
1987
Gothic as Dr. Polidori
1986
Dutch Girls as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
1985
The Bride as Paulus
1985
The Missionary as Parswell
1982
Remembrance as Douglas
1982
Oliver Twist as 1st Constable
1982
Home Sweet Home as Gordon
1982
A Cotswold Death as Detective Sergeant Baxter
1982
The Three Sisters as Andrei
1981
The Cherry Orchard as Epikhodov
1981
S.O.S. Titanic as Jim (uncredited)
1980
Quadrophenia as Projectionist
1979
The Vanishing Army as Wainwright
1978

Movies

The Last Bus Executive Producer
2021