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 Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Wormtail
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Alice in Wonderland
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
The Last Samurai
Simon Graham
Chicken Run
Nick (voice)
The King's Speech
Winston Churchill
Enchanted
Nathaniel
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Vanilla Sky
Thomas Tipp
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mr. Poe
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Beadle
Intimacy
Andy, Claire's husband
Early Man
Chief Bobnar (voice)
The Pale Blue Eye
Superintendent Thayer
Wicked Little Letters
Edward Swan
Upside Down
Bob Boruchowitz
Desert Flower
Terry Donaldson
Appaloosa
Phil Olson
Goodbye June
Bernie
Rock Star
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
All or Nothing
Phil
Rich Flu
Sebastian Snail Sr.
White Hunter, Black Heart
Hodkins
The Rise
D I West
Spencer
Major Alistair Gregorys
Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley
The Corrupted
Clifford Cullen
Mr. Turner
JMW Turner
Hamlet
Rosencrantz
Quadrophenia
Projectionist
Death Defying Acts
Sugarman
Topsy-Turvy
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Denial
David Irving
Oliver Twist
1st Constable
The Damned United
Peter Taylor
Ginger & Rosa
Mark
The Last Bus
Tom
The Bride
Paulus
Wake Wood
Arthur
This Is Christmas
Ray
Room on the Broom
Dragon (voice)
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
Terence Hilbery
Immortality
Inspector Healey
Northern Comfort
Edward
Life Is Sweet
Aubrey
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Cheeryble
Finding Your Feet
Charlie Glover
Dream Demon
Peck
Grizzly II: Revenge
Rob (uncredited)
Hamlet
Polonius
The Party
Bill
Vatel
Gourville
The Sheltering Sky
Eric Lyle
My Angel
Mr. Lambert
The Love Punch
Jerry
S.O.S. Titanic
Jim (uncredited)
From Time to Time
Boggis
Still Crazy
David "Beano" Baggot
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
Alfred Rott
Love's Labour's Lost
Armado
Lucky Break
Cliff
The Journey
Ian Paisley
The Changeover
Carmody Braque
Dutch Girls
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Albert Pierrepoint
Jackboots on Whitehall
Churchill (voice)
Gothic
Dr. Polidori
Heartless
George Morgan
Assassin's Bullet
Dr. Kahn
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee (voice)
Mrs Lowry & Son
L.S. Lowry
David Macaulay: Pyramid
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
Winston Churchill
Gettin' Square
Darren Barrington
9 Kisses
Bartender
My House in Umbria
Quinty
The Missionary
Parswell
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
Tommy Rag
To Kill a Priest
Igor
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Cunningham
The Cherry Orchard
Epikhodov
Bolan's Shoes
Jimmy
It Snows in Benidorm
Peter Riordan
Mysterious Creatures
Bill Ainscow
Love Bite
Sid
Dread Poets' Society
Derek
Body Contact
Paul
Crusoe
Reverend Milne
Roots
Jimmy Beales
The Life Story of Baal
Lupu
The Clandestine Marriage
Sterling
Remembrance
Douglas
The Swords
Salesman
The Heist Before Christmas
Santa
Neville's Island
Gordon
Away
Joseph
The Fattest Man in Britain
Georgie Godwin
Home Sweet Home
Gordon
A Room with a View
Mr Emerson
1871
Ramborde
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
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Agalla
A Cotswold Death
Detective Sergeant Baxter
This Time Away
Nigel
Teenage Tourettes Camp
Narrator
Comes a Bright Day
Charlie
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995
Journey's End
Lt. Trotter
The Vanishing Army
Wainwright
Reuniting the Rubins
Lennie Rubin
Broke
Francis Meeks
A Crack in the Ice
Pte. Postnikov
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Pig Robinson
Cherished
Terry Cannings
The Brylcreem Boys
Shorty
Gunrush
Doug Becket
Rough for Theatre II
B
Sucker
The Professor
TV Shows (36)
Play for Today
Gordon · 1 eps
Play for Today
Detective Sergeant Baxter · 1 eps
Red Dwarf
Andy · 1 eps
Performance
Jimmy Beales · 1 eps
Performance
Chico · 1 eps
Playhouse
Shorty · 1 eps
The Hunger
Salesman · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Francis Meeks · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Derek · 1 eps
Wolf Hall
Duke of Norfolk · 5 eps
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Cunningham - Masseur · 1 eps
BBC2 Play of the Week
Wainwright · 1 eps
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Ed Jacobson · 1 eps
Perpetual Grace LTD
Donald DeLoash · 5 eps
Death Valley
John Chapel · 12 eps
Murder Most Horrid
Pathologist · 1 eps
British Film Forever
1 eps
The Street
Eddie McEvoy · 18 eps
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Barry Taylor · 38 eps
The Syndicate
5 eps
10 Minute Tales
Man · 1 eps
Spender
Robert Cunningham · 1 eps
Blandings
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth · 13 eps
Outside Edge
Kevin Costello · 22 eps
Oliver Twist
Fagin · 5 eps
The Enfield Haunting
Maurice Grosse · 3 eps
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Porfiry · 1 eps
Frank Stubbs Promotes
Frank Stubbs · 13 eps
The Sixth Commandment
Peter Farquhar · 4 eps
Our Mutual Friend
Mr Venus · 4 eps
Summer of Rockets
Lord Arthur Wallington · 6 eps
Fungus the Bogeyman
Fungus · 3 eps
Hatton Garden
Terry Perkins · 4 eps
Perfect Strangers
Irving · 3 eps
Bodily Harm
Mitchel Greenfield · 2 eps
Shooting the Past
Oswald Bates · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (16)
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
Top Gear
Self · 1 eps
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
The One Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The One Show
Self · 1 eps
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
Remembers…
Self · 1 eps
London 2012 Olympic Games
Self · 1 eps
This Morning
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Self
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self / Nick
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Himself · 3 eps
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
Himself · 4 eps
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
Himself · 4 eps
Back with the Boys Again
Himself
