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.
186 acting credits
Acting · 186
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Top Gear
2002
Play for Today
1970
The One Show
2006
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Playhouse
1974
Red Dwarf
1988
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Pebble Mill
1991
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Performance
1991
Remembers…
2022
The Hunger
1997
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Parkinson
1998
Wolf Hall
2015
The Last Samurai
2003
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
Intimacy
2001
Enchanted
2007
Chicken Run
2000
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
ScreenPlay
1986
The Street
2006
The King's Speech
2010
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
Death Valley
2025
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
Blandings
2013
Spender
1991
Vanilla Sky
2001
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
Early Man
2018
Hamlet
2026
Oliver Twist
2007
The Syndicate
2012
10 Minute Tales
2009
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Hatton Garden
2019
Hamlet
1996
Outside Edge
1994
Spencer
2021
Upside Down
2012
Secrets & Lies
1996
Rock Star
2001
Desert Flower
2009
Goodbye June
2025
Appaloosa
2008
The Sixth Commandment
2023
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
Denial
2016
Wicked Little Letters
2024
Summer of Rockets
2019
Mr. Turner
2014
Quadrophenia
1979
Perfect Strangers
2001
London 2012 Olympic Games
2012
Rich Flu
2024
This Morning
1988
Topsy-Turvy
1999
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
All or Nothing
2002
Bodily Harm
2002
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
One Life
2003
The Enfield Haunting
2015
The Party
2017
The Last Bus
2021
The Damned United
2009
Ginger & Rosa
2012
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
Room on the Broom
2012
Still Crazy
1998
Immortality
1998
Shooting the Past
1999
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
The Corrupted
2019
A Room with a View
2008
The Bride
1985
Gothic
1987
Sucker
2015
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
British Film Forever
2007
Life Is Sweet
1991
Away
2016
Crusoe
1989
Death Defying Acts
2007
Finding Your Feet
2017
Heartless
2010
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
The Clandestine Marriage
1999
The Love Punch
2014
The Rise
2012
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
The Sheltering Sky
1990
Love Bite
2012
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
Vatel
2000
The Changeover
2017
The Missionary
1982
The Danny Baker Show
1994
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011
Cider with Rosie
2015
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012
To Kill a Priest
1988
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
From Time to Time
2009
Dream Demon
1988
It Snows in Benidorm
2020
Lucky Break
2001
This Is Christmas
2022
The Journey
2017
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
Wake Wood
2011
Nice Day at the Office
1994
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
My House in Umbria
2003
A Room with a View
2007
Assassin's Bullet
2012
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
Northern Comfort
2023
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010
Gettin' Square
2003
Reuniting the Rubins
2011
Remembrance
1982
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Dutch Girls
1985
The Vanishing Army
1978
Oliver Twist
1982
The Thing about Vince
2000
The Cherry Orchard
1981
Body Contact
1987
My Angel
2011
Journey's End
1988
A Cotswold Death
1982
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
Gunrush
2009
9 Kisses
2014
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
Mysterious Creatures
2006
Nona
1991
Roots
1992
The Three Sisters
1981
Ivor the Invisible
2001
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
The Heist Before Christmas
2023
Bolan's Shoes
2023
Comes a Bright Day
2012
Broke
1991
Say No to Strangers
1981
Home Sweet Home
1982
Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
Back with the Boys Again
2013
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
1871
1990
The Swords
1997
Cherished
2005
Dread Poets' Society
1992
Boy
2012
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
Rough for Theatre II
2000
A Crack in the Ice
1985
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
Neville's Island
1998
This Time Away
2019
Untitled 13
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The Life Story of Baal
1978
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991
Murdering Michael Malloy
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Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006