Timothy Spall
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 27, 1957 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Battersea, London, England, UK
- Credits
- 193
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
2004Movie
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005Movie
Wormtail
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011Movie
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007Movie
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009Movie
Peter Pettigrew
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Peter Pettigrew
Filmography
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026Movie
Terence Hilbery
Hamlet
2026Movie
Polonius
Goodbye June
2025Movie
Bernie
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025Movie
Death Valley
2025TV
John Chapel
Rich Flu
2024Movie
Sebastian Snail Sr.
Wicked Little Letters
2024Movie
Edward Swan
The Heist Before Christmas
2023Movie
Santa
Bolan's Shoes
2023Movie
Jimmy
Northern Comfort
2023Movie
Edward
The Sixth Commandment
2023TV
Peter Farquhar
The Pale Blue Eye
2022Movie
Superintendent Thayer
This Is Christmas
2022Movie
Ray
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022TV
Self – Actor
Remembers…
2022TV
Self
Spencer
2021Movie
Major Alistair Gregorys
The Grand Duke of Corsica
2021Movie
Alfred Rott
The Last Bus
2021Movie
Tom
It Snows in Benidorm
2020Movie
Peter Riordan
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020Movie
Rob (uncredited)
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019Movie
L.S. Lowry
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019TV
Donald DeLoash
Summer of Rockets
2019TV
Lord Arthur Wallington
Hatton Garden
2019TV
Terry Perkins
The Corrupted
2019Movie
Clifford Cullen
This Time Away
2019Movie
Nigel
Early Man
2018Movie
Chief Bobnar (voice)
Finding Your Feet
2017Movie
Charlie Glover
The Changeover
2017Movie
Carmody Braque
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017TV
Ed Jacobson
The Party
2017Movie
Bill
The Journey
2017Movie
Ian Paisley
Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016Movie
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
Denial
2016Movie
David Irving
Away
2016Movie
Joseph
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016Movie
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015Movie
Fungus
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015TV
Fungus
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015Movie
Self / Nick
Cider with Rosie
2015Movie
Laurie Lee (voice)
Sucker
2015Movie
The Professor
The Enfield Haunting
2015TV
Maurice Grosse
Wolf Hall
2015TV
Duke of Norfolk
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014Movie
Self
Mr. Turner
2014Movie
JMW Turner
9 Kisses
2014Movie
Bartender
The Love Punch
2014Movie
Jerry
Back with the Boys Again
2013Movie
Himself
Blandings
2013TV
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
Room on the Broom
2012Movie
Dragon (voice)
Love Bite
2012Movie
Sid
London 2012 Olympic Games
2012TV
Self
Ginger & Rosa
2012Movie
Mark
Upside Down
2012Movie
Bob Boruchowitz
The Rise
2012Movie
D I West
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
2012Movie
Winston Churchill
Assassin's Bullet
2012Movie
Dr. Kahn
The Syndicate
2012TV
Boy
2012Movie
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012TV
Himself
Comes a Bright Day
2012Movie
Charlie
My Angel
2011Movie
Mr. Lambert
Reuniting the Rubins
2011Movie
Lennie Rubin
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011TV
Himself
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011Movie
Peter Pettigrew
Wake Wood
2011Movie
Arthur
The King's Speech
2010Movie
Winston Churchill
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010Movie
Peter Pettigrew
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010Movie
Churchill (voice)
Heartless
2010Movie
George Morgan
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010TV
Himself
Alice in Wonderland
2010Movie
Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
10 Minute Tales
2009TV
Man
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009Movie
Georgie Godwin
From Time to Time
2009Movie
Boggis
Desert Flower
2009Movie
Terry Donaldson
Gunrush
2009Movie
Doug Becket
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009Movie
Peter Pettigrew
The Damned United
2009Movie
Peter Taylor
Appaloosa
2008Movie
Phil Olson
A Room with a View
2008TV
Mr Emerson
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007Movie
Beadle
Oliver Twist
2007TV
Fagin
Enchanted
2007Movie
Nathaniel
A Room with a View
2007Movie
Mr Emerson
Death Defying Acts
2007Movie
Sugarman
British Film Forever
2007TV
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007Movie
Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Mysterious Creatures
2006Movie
Bill Ainscow
The One Show
2006TV
Self - Guest, Self
The Street
2006TV
Eddie McEvoy
Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006Movie
Narrator
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005Movie
Albert Pierrepoint
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005Movie
Wormtail
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005Movie
Malcolm Harvey
Cherished
2005Movie
Terry Cannings
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004Movie
Mr. Poe
Parkinson
2004TV
Self - Guest
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004Movie
Peter Pettigrew
The Last Samurai
2003Movie
Simon Graham
Gettin' Square
2003Movie
Darren Barrington
One Life
2003TV
My House in Umbria
2003Movie
Quinty
Nicholas Nickleby
2002Movie
Charles Cheeryble
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002Movie
Self
Top Gear
2002TV
Self
All or Nothing
2002Movie
Phil
Bodily Harm
2002TV
Mitchel Greenfield
Ivor the Invisible
2001Movie
Dad (voice)
Vanilla Sky
2001Movie
Thomas Tipp
Rock Star
2001Movie
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Lucky Break
2001Movie
Cliff
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001Movie
Tommy Rag
Perfect Strangers
2001TV
Irving
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001Movie
Luis Agalla
Intimacy
2001Movie
Andy, Claire's husband
The Thing about Vince
2000TV
Vince Skinner
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000Movie
Cunningham
Chicken Run
2000Movie
Nick (voice)
Vatel
2000Movie
Gourville
Love's Labour's Lost
2000Movie
Armado
Rough for Theatre II
2000Movie
B
Topsy-Turvy
1999Movie
Richard Temple (The Mikado)
The Clandestine Marriage
1999Movie
Sterling
Shooting the Past
1999TV
Oswald Bates
Immortality
1998Movie
Inspector Healey
Still Crazy
1998Movie
David "Beano" Baggot
Our Mutual Friend
1998TV
Mr Venus
Parkinson
1998TV
Self
Neville's Island
1998Movie
Gordon
The Swords
1997Movie
Salesman
The Hunger
1997TV
Salesman
Hamlet
1996Movie
Rosencrantz
Secrets & Lies
1996Movie
Maurice Purley
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995Movie
Nice Day at the Office
1994TV
The Danny Baker Show
1994TV
Outside Edge
1994TV
Kevin Costello
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993TV
Frank Stubbs
Roots
1992Movie
Jimmy Beales
Dread Poets' Society
1992Movie
Derek
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992TV
Cunningham - Masseur
Murder Most Horrid
1991TV
Pathologist
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991Movie
Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart
Nona
1991Movie
Chico
Pebble Mill
1991TV
Self
Performance
1991TV
Jimmy Beales, Chico
Broke
1991Movie
Francis Meeks
Life Is Sweet
1991Movie
Aubrey
Spender
1991TV
Robert Cunningham
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990Movie
Pig Robinson
The Sheltering Sky
1990Movie
Eric Lyle
1871
1990Movie
Ramborde
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990Movie
Hodkins
Stolen
1990TV
Donald Caudell
Crusoe
1989Movie
Reverend Milne
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989Movie
Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)
Dream Demon
1988Movie
Peck
This Morning
1988TV
Self - Guest
To Kill a Priest
1988Movie
Igor
Red Dwarf
1988TV
Andy
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988TV
Porfiry
Journey's End
1988Movie
Lt. Trotter
Body Contact
1987Movie
Paul
Gothic
1987Movie
Dr. Polidori
ScreenPlay
1986TV
Francis Meeks, Derek
Boon
1986TV
Bill Webster
Dutch Girls
1985Movie
Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
The Bride
1985Movie
Paulus
A Crack in the Ice
1985Movie
Pte. Postnikov
Summer Season
1985TV
Private Postnikov
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983TV
Barry Taylor
The Missionary
1982Movie
Parswell
Remembrance
1982Movie
Douglas
Oliver Twist
1982Movie
1st Constable
Home Sweet Home
1982Movie
Gordon
A Cotswold Death
1982Movie
Detective Sergeant Baxter
The Three Sisters
1981Movie
Andrei
The Cherry Orchard
1981Movie
Epikhodov
Say No to Strangers
1981Movie
Stranger
S.O.S. Titanic
1980Movie
Jim (uncredited)
The Brylcreem Boys
1979Movie
Shorty
Quadrophenia
1979Movie
Projectionist
The Vanishing Army
1978Movie
Wainwright
The Life Story of Baal
1978Movie
Lupu
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977TV
Wainwright
Playhouse
1974TV
Shorty
Film '72
1971TV
Self
Play for Today
1970TV
Gordon, Detective Sergeant Baxter
Murdering Michael Malloy
Movie
Michael Malloy
Untitled 13
Movie