Timothy Spall

Born: 1957-02-27 in Battersea, London, England, UK

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

Hamlet as Polonius
Virginia Woolf's Night & Day as Mr Hilbery

2025

2024

Wicked Little Letters as Edward Swan
Rich Flu as Sebastian Snail Sr.

2023

The Sixth Commandment as Peter Farquhar
Northern Comfort as Edward
The Heist Before Christmas as Santa
Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy

2022

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
Remembers… as Self
The Pale Blue Eye as Superintendent Thayer
This Is Christmas as Ray

2021

Spencer as Major Alistair Gregorys
The Last Bus as Tom
The Grand Duke Of Corsica as Alfred Rott

2020

Grizzly II: Revenge as Rob (uncredited)
It Snows in Benidorm as Peter Riordan

2019

Perpetual Grace LTD as Donald DeLoash
Hatton Garden as Terry Perkins
The Corrupted as Clifford Cullen
Summer of Rockets as Lord Arthur Wallington
Mrs Lowry & Son as L.S. Lowry
This Time Away as Nigel

2018

Early Man as Chief Bobnar (voice)

2017

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Ed Jacobson
The Party as Bill
Finding Your Feet as Charlie Glover
The Changeover as Carmody Braque
The Journey as Ian Paisley

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
Denial as David Irving
Away as Joseph
Stanley, a Man of Variety 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

2015

Wolf Hall as Duke of Norfolk
Fungus the Bogeyman as Fungus
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self / Nick
The Enfield Haunting as Maurice Grosse
Cider with Rosie as Laurie Lee (voice)
Sucker as The Professor
Fungus The Bogeyman as Fungus

2014

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
Mr. Turner as JMW Turner
The Love Punch as Jerry
The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
9 Kisses as Bartender

2013

Blandings as Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
Back with the Boys Again as Himself

2012

The Syndicate
Upside Down as Bob Boruchowitz
London 2012 Olympic Games as Self
Ginger & Rosa as Mark
Room on the Broom as Dragon (voice)
Assassin's Bullet as Dr. Kahn
Love Bite as Sid
The Rise as D I West
Comes a Bright Day as Charlie
Boy
Timothy Spall: All at Sea as Himself

2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Peter Pettigrew
Wake Wood as Arthur
My Angel as Mr. Lambert
Reuniting the Rubins as Lennie Rubin
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea as Himself

2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Peter Pettigrew
Alice in Wonderland as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)
The King's Speech as Winston Churchill
Jackboots on Whitehall as Churchill (voice)
Heartless as George Morgan
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea as Himself

2009

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Peter Pettigrew
Desert Flower as Terry Donaldson
10 Minute Tales as Man
The Damned United as Peter Taylor
From Time to Time as Boggis
The Fattest Man in Britain as Georgie Godwin
Gunrush as Doug Becket

2008

Appaloosa as Phil Olson
A Room with a View as Mr Emerson

2007

The Graham Norton Show as Self
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)
Enchanted as Nathaniel
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Beadle
Oliver Twist as Fagin
Death Defying Acts as Sugarman
British Film Forever as Himself
A Room with a View as Mr Emerson

2006

The One Show as Self - Guest
The Street as Eddie McEvoy
Mysterious Creatures as Bill Ainscow
Teenage Tourettes Camp as Narrator

2005

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Wormtail
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman as Albert Pierrepoint
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle as Malcolm Harvey
Cherished as Terry Cannings

2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Peter Pettigrew
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Mr. Poe

2003

The Last Samurai as Simon Graham
One Life
Gettin' Square as Darren Barrington
My House in Umbria as Quinty

2002

Top Gear as Self
All or Nothing as Phil
Nicholas Nickleby as Charles Cheeryble
Bodily Harm as Mitchel Greenfield
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self

2001

Intimacy as Andy, Claire's husband
Vanilla Sky as Thomas Tipp
Rock Star as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager
Perfect Strangers as Irving
Lucky Break as Cliff
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise as Tommy Rag
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as Luis Agalla
Ivor the Invisible as Dad (voice)

2000

Chicken Run as Nick (voice)
Vatel as Gourville
Love's Labour's Lost as Armado
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades as Cunningham
The Thing about Vince as Vince skinner
Rough for Theatre II as B

1999

Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple (The Mikado)
Shooting the Past as Oswald Bates
The Clandestine Marriage as Sterling

1998

Parkinson as Self
Our Mutual Friend as Mr Venus
Still Crazy as David "Beano" Baggot
Immortality as Inspector Healey
Neville's Island as Gordon

1997

The Hunger as Salesman
The Swords as Salesman

1996

Hamlet as Rosencrantz
Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley

1994

1993

Frank Stubbs Promotes as Frank Stubbs

1992

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Cunningham - Masseur
Roots as Jimmy Beales
Dread Poets' Society as Derek

1991

Pebble Mill as Self
Performance as Jimmy Beales
Murder Most Horrid as Pathologist
Spender as Robert Cunningham
Life Is Sweet as Aubrey
Broke as Francis Meeks
Nona as Chico
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart

1990

White Hunter, Black Heart as Hodkins
The Sheltering Sky as Eric Lyle
1871 as Ramborde
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Pig Robinson

1989

Crusoe as Reverend Milne
David Macaulay: Pyramid as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)

1988

Red Dwarf as Andy
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Porfiry
To Kill a Priest as Igor
This Morning as Self - Guest
Dream Demon as Peck
Journey's End as Lt. Trotter

1987

Gothic as Dr. Polidori
Body Contact as Paul

1985

The Bride as Paulus
Dutch Girls as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe
A Crack in the Ice as Pte. Postnikov

1983

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as Barry Taylor

1982

The Missionary as Parswell
Oliver Twist as 1st Constable
Remembrance as Douglas
A Cotswold Death as Detective Sergeant Baxter
Home Sweet Home as Gordon

1981

Say No to Strangers as Stranger
The Cherry Orchard as Epikhodov
The Three Sisters as Andrei

1980

S.O.S. Titanic as Jim (uncredited)

1979

Quadrophenia as Projectionist
The Brylcreem Boys as Shorty

1978

The Vanishing Army as Wainwright
The Life Story of Baal as Lupu

1977

BBC2 Play of the Week as Wainwright

1974

Playhouse as Shorty

1970

Play for Today as Gordon