Timothy Spall
Known for Acting · 188 credits
- Born
- 1957-02-27 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Battersea, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Tim Spall · Timothy Leonard Spall
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
TV Shows (52)
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Top Gear
2002
as Self
Play for Today
1970
as Gordon / Detective Sergeant Baxter
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
Playhouse
1974
as Shorty
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Wainwright
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Red Dwarf
1988
as Andy
Film '72
1971
as Self
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
The Hunger
1997
as Salesman
Performance
1991
as Jimmy Beales / Chico
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
as Ed Jacobson
ScreenPlay
1986
as Francis Meeks / Derek
Wolf Hall
2015
as Duke of Norfolk
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as Cunningham - Masseur
Blandings
2013
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
Remembers…
2022
as Self
Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Pathologist
Death Valley
2025
as John Chapel
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
as Donald DeLoash
The Syndicate
2012
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
as Barry Taylor
Spender
1991
as Robert Cunningham
This Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
Oliver Twist
2007
as Fagin
10 Minute Tales
2009
as Man
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Porfiry
One Life
2003
Outside Edge
1994
as Kevin Costello
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Mr Venus
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
as Frank Stubbs
The Enfield Haunting
2015
as Maurice Grosse
The Sixth Commandment
2023
as Peter Farquhar
British Film Forever
2007
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
London 2012 Olympic Games
2012
as Self
Perfect Strangers
2001
as Irving
Hatton Garden
2019
as Terry Perkins
A Room with a View
2008
as Mr Emerson
The Street
2006
as Eddie McEvoy
Bodily Harm
2002
as Mitchel Greenfield
Summer of Rockets
2019
as Lord Arthur Wallington
The Danny Baker Show
1994
Shooting the Past
1999
as Oswald Bates
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010
as Himself
Nice Day at the Office
1994
The Thing about Vince
2000
as Vince skinner
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012
as Himself
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011
as Himself
Movies (136)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Wormtail
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
The Last Samurai
2003
as Simon Graham
The King's Speech
2010
as Winston Churchill
Chicken Run
2000
as Nick (voice)
Enchanted
2007
as Nathaniel
Upside Down
2012
as Bob Boruchowitz
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Superintendent Thayer
The Rise
2012
as D I West
Intimacy
2001
as Andy, Claire's husband
Vanilla Sky
2001
as Thomas Tipp
Wicked Little Letters
2024
as Edward Swan
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Beadle
Desert Flower
2009
as Terry Donaldson
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Mr. Poe
Spencer
2021
as Major Alistair Gregorys
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
as Terence Hilbery
Boy
2012
Early Man
2018
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
It Snows in Benidorm
2020
as Peter Riordan
Wake Wood
2011
as Arthur
Ginger & Rosa
2012
as Mark
The Last Bus
2021
as Tom
Appaloosa
2008
as Phil Olson
Room on the Broom
2012
as Dragon (voice)
Rock Star
2001
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
The Party
2017
as Bill
Mr. Turner
2014
as JMW Turner
Oliver Twist
1982
as 1st Constable
Finding Your Feet
2017
as Charlie Glover
Secrets & Lies
1996
as Maurice Purley
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
as Armado
My Angel
2011
as Mr. Lambert
Goodbye June
2025
as Bernie
The Love Punch
2014
as Jerry
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Epikhodov
Mysterious Creatures
2006
as Bill Ainscow
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Churchill (voice)
All or Nothing
2002
as Phil
Life Is Sweet
1991
as Aubrey
9 Kisses
2014
as Bartender
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
as Rob (uncredited)
Denial
2016
as David Irving
Vatel
2000
as Gourville
Reuniting the Rubins
2011
as Lennie Rubin
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Jim (uncredited)
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
as Tommy Rag
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
as Malcolm Harvey
Hamlet
1996
as Rosencrantz
Rich Flu
2024
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Charles Cheeryble
The Missionary
1982
as Parswell
The Bride
1985
as Paulus
The Changeover
2017
as Carmody Braque
From Time to Time
2009
as Boggis
Dutch Girls
1985
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
Nona
1991
as Chico
Hamlet
2026
as Polonius
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as L.S. Lowry
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
as Hodkins
Northern Comfort
2023
as Edward
The Damned United
2009
as Peter Taylor
Assassin's Bullet
2012
as Dr. Kahn
This Is Christmas
2022
as Ray
Death Defying Acts
2007
as Sugarman
Quadrophenia
1979
as Projectionist
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
as Alfred Rott
The Journey
2017
as Ian Paisley
The Sheltering Sky
1990
as Eric Lyle
Comes a Bright Day
2012
as Charlie
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006
as Narrator
Immortality
1998
as Inspector Healey
The Corrupted
2019
as Clifford Cullen
The Clandestine Marriage
1999
as Sterling
The Swords
1997
as Salesman
Still Crazy
1998
as David "Beano" Baggot
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
2012
as Winston Churchill
Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Murdering Michael Malloy
as Michael Malloy
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
as Self / Nick
Home Sweet Home
1982
as Gordon
Lucky Break
2001
as Cliff
Rough for Theatre II
2000
as B
The Three Sisters
1981
as Andrei
Ivor the Invisible
2001
as Dad (voice)
Dream Demon
1988
as Peck
My House in Umbria
2003
as Quinty
Gothic
1987
as Dr. Polidori
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Luis Agalla
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Igor
Neville's Island
1998
as Gordon
Dread Poets' Society
1992
as Derek
The Vanishing Army
1978
as Wainwright
Roots
1992
as Jimmy Beales
Say No to Strangers
1981
as Stranger
The Life Story of Baal
1978
as Lupu
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
A Room with a View
2007
as Mr Emerson
Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016
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
Body Contact
1987
as Paul
Heartless
2010
as George Morgan
Journey's End
1988
as Lt. Trotter
Gettin' Square
2003
as Darren Barrington
Gunrush
2009
as Doug Becket
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
as Albert Pierrepoint
Bolan's Shoes
2023
as Jimmy
Cider with Rosie
2015
as Laurie Lee (voice)
Cherished
2005
as Terry Cannings
Love Bite
2012
as Sid
Untitled 13
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self
The Heist Before Christmas
2023
as Santa
About 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 Damne… With 188 credits spanning from 1970 to 2026, Timothy Spall has appeared in 136 films and 52 TV shows.
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Most Popular Timothy Spall Movies
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) — as Wormtail
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Peter Pettigrew
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Peter Pettigrew
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) — as Peter Pettigrew
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) — as Peter Pettigrew
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