Timothy Spall
Acting
Born: February 27, 1957 (age 69) · Battersea, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
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
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Alice in Wonderland
2010
The King's Speech
2010
The Last Samurai
2003
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
Enchanted
2007
Photos (4)
Movies (123)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wormtail
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Peter Pettigrew
Alice in Wonderland
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
The King's Speech
Winston Churchill
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Peter Pettigrew
The Last Samurai
Simon Graham
Chicken Run
Nick (voice)
Enchanted
Nathaniel
Vanilla Sky
Thomas Tipp
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mr. Poe
Goodbye June
Bernie
Early Man
Chief Bobnar (voice)
Spencer
Major Alistair Gregorys
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Beadle
The Pale Blue Eye
Superintendent Thayer
The Corrupted
Clifford Cullen
Northern Comfort
Edward
Intimacy
Andy, Claire's husband
Mr. Turner
JMW Turner
Upside Down
Bob Boruchowitz
Finding Your Feet
Charlie Glover
Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley
Wicked Little Letters
Edward Swan
Desert Flower
Terry Donaldson
The Last Bus
Tom
Room on the Broom
Dragon (voice)
The Damned United
Peter Taylor
Death Defying Acts
Sugarman
Denial
David Irving
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
All or Nothing
Phil
White Hunter, Black Heart
Hodkins
The Party
Bill
This Is Christmas
Ray
Ginger & Rosa
Mark
Rich Flu
Sebastian Snail Sr.
Rock Star
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Wake Wood
Arthur
S.O.S. Titanic
Jim (uncredited)
Appaloosa
Phil Olson
The Sheltering Sky
Eric Lyle
The Bride
Paulus
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Cheeryble
From Time to Time
Boggis
Love's Labour's Lost
Armado
Vatel
Gourville
Hamlet
Polonius
Assassin's Bullet
Dr. Kahn
The Love Punch
Jerry
Heartless
George Morgan
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Terence Hilbery
Life Is Sweet
Aubrey
Still Crazy
David "Beano" Baggot
Topsy-Turvy
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Mrs Lowry & Son
L.S. Lowry
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Albert Pierrepoint
Quadrophenia
Projectionist
The Heist Before Christmas
Santa
The Rise
D I West
It Snows in Benidorm
Peter Riordan
Immortality
Inspector Healey
Dream Demon
Peck
To Kill a Priest
Igor
The Grand Duke of Corsica
Alfred Rott
Grizzly II: Revenge
Rob (uncredited)
Lucky Break
Cliff
Love Bite
Sid
The Changeover
Carmody Braque
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee (voice)
Comes a Bright Day
Charlie
Gothic
Dr. Polidori
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Tommy Rag
The Missionary
Parswell
9 Kisses
Bartender
Home Sweet Home
Gordon
Oliver Twist
1st Constable
Bolan's Shoes
Jimmy
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Agalla
Gettin' Square
Darren Barrington
My Angel
Mr. Lambert
My House in Umbria
Quinty
The Cherry Orchard
Epikhodov
Crusoe
Reverend Milne
Mysterious Creatures
Bill Ainscow
A Room with a View
Mr Emerson
The Journey
Ian Paisley
Jackboots on Whitehall
Churchill (voice)
Roots
Jimmy Beales
Dutch Girls
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
Away
Joseph
Reuniting the Rubins
Lennie Rubin
The Clandestine Marriage
Sterling
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
Winston Churchill
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
The Fattest Man in Britain
Georgie Godwin
The Life Story of Baal
Lupu
Body Contact
Paul
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Cunningham
The Vanishing Army
Wainwright
Stanley, a Man of Variety
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
This Time Away
Nigel
Sucker
The Professor
Rough for Theatre II
B
The Brylcreem Boys
Shorty
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995
Broke
Francis Meeks
Neville's Island
Gordon
The Swords
Salesman
Dread Poets' Society
Derek
Gunrush
Doug Becket
Remembrance
Douglas
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Narrator
Journey's End
Lt. Trotter
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Pig Robinson
A Crack in the Ice
Pte. Postnikov
Cherished
Terry Cannings
A Cotswold Death
Detective Sergeant Baxter
1871
Ramborde
TV Shows (37)
Play for Today
Gordon · 1 eps
Play for Today
Detective Sergeant Baxter · 1 eps
Red Dwarf
Andy · 1 eps
Playhouse
Shorty · 1 eps
Performance
Jimmy Beales · 1 eps
Performance
Chico · 1 eps
The Hunger
Salesman · 1 eps
BBC2 Play of the Week
Wainwright · 1 eps
Wolf Hall
Duke of Norfolk · 5 eps
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Cunningham - Masseur · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Francis Meeks · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Derek · 1 eps
Boon
Bill Webster · 1 eps
Murder Most Horrid
Pathologist · 1 eps
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Ed Jacobson · 1 eps
Outside Edge
Kevin Costello · 22 eps
Perpetual Grace LTD
Donald DeLoash · 5 eps
The Syndicate
5 eps
Spender
Robert Cunningham · 1 eps
The Street
Eddie McEvoy · 18 eps
Blandings
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth · 13 eps
Death Valley
John Chapel · 12 eps
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Barry Taylor · 38 eps
Our Mutual Friend
Mr Venus · 4 eps
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Porfiry · 1 eps
10 Minute Tales
Man · 1 eps
The Sixth Commandment
Peter Farquhar · 4 eps
Oliver Twist
Fagin · 5 eps
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Frank Stubbs · 13 eps
Hatton Garden
Terry Perkins · 4 eps
British Film Forever
1 eps
Summer of Rockets
Lord Arthur Wallington · 6 eps
Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus · 3 eps
The Enfield Haunting
Maurice Grosse · 3 eps
Bodily Harm
Mitchel Greenfield · 2 eps
Perfect Strangers
Irving · 3 eps
Shooting the Past
Oswald Bates · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (17)
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
The One Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The One Show
Self · 1 eps
Top Gear
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor · 1 eps
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
Parkinson
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Remembers…
Self · 1 eps
This Morning
Self - Guest · 1 eps
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self / Nick
London 2012 Olympic Games
Self · 1 eps
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Himself · 4 eps
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Himself · 4 eps
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Himself · 3 eps
Back with the Boys Again
Himself
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
