Timothy Spall
Known for Acting · 186 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 (51)
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Top Gear
2002
as Self
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Play for Today
1970
as Gordon / Detective Sergeant Baxter
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Red Dwarf
1988
as Andy
Playhouse
1974
as Shorty
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
Parkinson
1998
as Self
The Hunger
1997
as Salesman
Performance
1991
as Jimmy Beales / Chico
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as Cunningham - Masseur
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Wainwright
Wolf Hall
2015
as Duke of Norfolk
Remembers…
2022
as Self
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
as Ed Jacobson
ScreenPlay
1986
as Francis Meeks / Derek
Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Pathologist
Death Valley
2025
as John Chapel
The Street
2006
as Eddie McEvoy
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019
as Donald DeLoash
Blandings
2013
as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983
as Barry Taylor
The Syndicate
2012
Spender
1991
as Robert Cunningham
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Porfiry
10 Minute Tales
2009
as Man
Oliver Twist
2007
as Fagin
Our Mutual Friend
1998
as Mr Venus
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993
as Frank Stubbs
Outside Edge
1994
as Kevin Costello
This Morning
1988
as Self - Guest
Summer of Rockets
2019
as Lord Arthur Wallington
One Life
2003
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
London 2012 Olympic Games
2012
as Self
Hatton Garden
2019
as Terry Perkins
The Sixth Commandment
2023
as Peter Farquhar
Perfect Strangers
2001
as Irving
Bodily Harm
2002
as Mitchel Greenfield
Shooting the Past
1999
as Oswald Bates
The Danny Baker Show
1994
The Enfield Haunting
2015
as Maurice Grosse
A Room with a View
2008
as Mr Emerson
British Film Forever
2007
as Himself
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012
as Himself
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010
as Himself
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011
as Himself
Nice Day at the Office
1994
The Thing about Vince
2000
as Vince skinner
Movies (135)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Wormtail
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Peter Pettigrew
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
Enchanted
2007
as Nathaniel
Intimacy
2001
as Andy, Claire's husband
Chicken Run
2000
as Nick (voice)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Mr. Poe
The King's Speech
2010
as Winston Churchill
Vanilla Sky
2001
as Thomas Tipp
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Beadle
Early Man
2018
as Chief Bobnar (voice)
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Superintendent Thayer
Rock Star
2001
as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Upside Down
2012
as Bob Boruchowitz
Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Desert Flower
2009
as Terry Donaldson
Appaloosa
2008
as Phil Olson
Spencer
2021
as Major Alistair Gregorys
Hamlet
1996
as Rosencrantz
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Charles Cheeryble
Secrets & Lies
1996
as Maurice Purley
Rich Flu
2024
as Sebastian Snail Sr.
Wicked Little Letters
2024
as Edward Swan
Hamlet
2026
as Polonius
Quadrophenia
1979
as Projectionist
Denial
2016
as David Irving
Goodbye June
2025
as Bernie
The Sheltering Sky
1990
as Eric Lyle
Mr. Turner
2014
as JMW Turner
The Party
2017
as Bill
Ginger & Rosa
2012
as Mark
Still Crazy
1998
as David "Beano" Baggot
Immortality
1998
as Inspector Healey
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990
as Hodkins
The Damned United
2009
as Peter Taylor
The Corrupted
2019
as Clifford Cullen
The Missionary
1982
as Parswell
Vatel
2000
as Gourville
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
as Self / Nick
Northern Comfort
2023
as Edward
Finding Your Feet
2017
as Charlie Glover
The Last Bus
2021
as Tom
Room on the Broom
2012
as Dragon (voice)
Love's Labour's Lost
2000
as Armado
Gothic
1987
as Dr. Polidori
Crusoe
1989
as Reverend Milne
Life Is Sweet
1991
as Aubrey
Lucky Break
2001
as Cliff
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Churchill (voice)
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
as Rob (uncredited)
The Bride
1985
as Paulus
All or Nothing
2002
as Phil
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Jim (uncredited)
Wake Wood
2011
as Arthur
Death Defying Acts
2007
as Sugarman
Assassin's Bullet
2012
as Dr. Kahn
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026
as Mr Hilbery
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005
as Albert Pierrepoint
Oliver Twist
1982
as 1st Constable
The Love Punch
2014
as Jerry
Love Bite
2012
as Sid
Gettin' Square
2003
as Darren Barrington
The Journey
2017
as Ian Paisley
Away
2016
as Joseph
The Clandestine Marriage
1999
as Sterling
The Rise
2012
as D I West
My House in Umbria
2003
as Quinty
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as L.S. Lowry
From Time to Time
2009
as Boggis
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self
My Angel
2011
as Mr. Lambert
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025
A Room with a View
2007
as Mr Emerson
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Igor
Cider with Rosie
2015
as Laurie Lee (voice)
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002
as Self
The Changeover
2017
as Carmody Braque
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005
as Malcolm Harvey
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
as Cunningham
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021
as Alfred Rott
This Is Christmas
2022
as Ray
The Heist Before Christmas
2023
as Santa
Heartless
2010
as George Morgan
The Swords
1997
as Salesman
Remembrance
1982
as Douglas
Body Contact
1987
as Paul
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989
as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Epikhodov
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
as Fungus
9 Kisses
2014
as Bartender
Sucker
2015
as The Professor
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990
as Pig Robinson
Dream Demon
1988
as Peck
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Luis Agalla
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001
as Tommy Rag
Nona
1991
as Chico
Bolan's Shoes
2023
as Jimmy
It Snows in Benidorm
2020
as Peter Riordan
Rough for Theatre II
2000
as B
Dread Poets' Society
1992
as Derek
Mysterious Creatures
2006
as Bill Ainscow
The Brylcreem Boys
1979
as Shorty
Reuniting the Rubins
2011
as Lennie Rubin
Gunrush
2009
as Doug Becket
The Vanishing Army
1978
as Wainwright
A Cotswold Death
1982
as Detective Sergeant Baxter
1871
1990
as Ramborde
Roots
1992
as Jimmy Beales
Journey's End
1988
as Lt. Trotter
Comes a Bright Day
2012
as Charlie
Cherished
2005
as Terry Cannings
Boy
2012
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
as Georgie Godwin
Dutch Girls
1985
as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
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 186 credits spanning from 1970 to 2026, Timothy Spall has appeared in 135 films and 51 TV shows.
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Most Popular Timothy Spall Movies
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) — as Peter Pettigrew
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Peter Pettigrew
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) — as Wormtail
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Peter Pettigrew
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) — as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
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