Timothy Spall 1957 68

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.

From Battersea, London, England, UK

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2025 Goodbye June

2025 Late in Summer Executive Producer

2025 Night and Day as Mr Hilbery

2025 Hamlet as Polonius

2025 Untitled 13

2024 Rich Flu as Sebastian Snail Sr.

2024 Wicked Little Letters as Edward Swan

2023 The Heist Before Christmas as Santa

2023 Bolan's Shoes as Jimmy

2023 Northern Comfort as Edward

2022 The Pale Blue Eye as Superintendent Thayer

2022 This Is Christmas as Ray

2021 Spencer as Major Alistair Gregorys

2021 The Grand Duke Of Corsica as Alfred Rott

2021 The Last Bus as Tom Executive Producer

2020 It Snows in Benidorm as Peter Riordan

2020 Grizzly II: Revenge as Rob (uncredited)

2019 Mrs Lowry & Son as L.S. Lowry

2019 The Corrupted as Clifford Cullen

2019 This Time Away as Nigel

2018 Early Man as Chief Bobnar (voice)

2017 Finding Your Feet as Charlie Glover

2017 The Changeover as Carmody Braque

2017 The Party as Bill

2017 The Journey as Ian Paisley

2016 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

2016 Denial as David Irving

2016 Away as Joseph

2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)

2015 Fungus The Bogeyman as Fungus

2015 A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self / Nick

2015 Cider with Rosie as Laurie Lee (voice)

2015 Sucker as The Professor

2014 9 Kisses as Arm Wrestling Man #2

2014 The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self

2014 Mr. Turner as JMW Turner

2014 The Love Punch as Jerry

2013 Back With The Boys Again as Himself

2012 Room on the Broom as Dragon (voice)

2012 Love Bite as Sid

2012 Ginger & Rosa as Mark

2012 Upside Down as Bob Boruchowitz

2012 Wasteland as D I West

2012 Assassin's Bullet as Dr. Kahn

2012 Boy

2012 Comes a Bright Day as Charlie

2011 My Angel as Mr. Lambert

2011 Reuniting the Rubins as Lennie Rubin

2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Peter Pettigrew

2011 Wake Wood as Arthur

2010 The King's Speech as Winston Churchill

2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Peter Pettigrew

2010 Jackboots on Whitehall as Churchill (voice)

2010 Heartless as George Morgan

2010 Alice in Wonderland as Bayard Hamar / Bloodhound (voice)

2009 The Fattest Man in Britain as Georgie Godwin

2009 From Time to Time as Boggis

2009 Desert Flower as Terry Donaldson

2009 Gunrush as Doug Becket

2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Peter Pettigrew

2009 The Damned United as Peter Taylor

2008 Appaloosa as Phil Olson

2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Beadle

2007 Enchanted as Nathaniel

2007 A Room with a View as Mr Emerson

2007 Death Defying Acts as Sugarman

2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Peter Pettigrew (uncredited)

2006 Mysterious Creatures as Bill Ainscow

2006 Teenage Tourettes Camp as Narrator

2005 Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman as Albert Pierrepoint

2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Wormtail

2005 Mr Harvey Lights a Candle as Malcolm Harvey

2005 Cherished as Terry Cannings

2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Mr. Poe

2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Peter Pettigrew

2003 The Last Samurai as Simon Graham

2003 Gettin' Square as Darren Barrington

2003 My House in Umbria as Quinty

2002 Nicholas Nickleby as Charles Cheeryble

2002 Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages as Self

2002 All or Nothing as Phil

2001 Ivor the Invisible as Dad (voice)

2001 Vanilla Sky as Thomas Tipp

2001 Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise as Tommy Rag

2001 Rock Star as Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager

2001 Lucky Break as Cliff

2001 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

2001 Intimacy as Andy, Claire's husband

2000 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades as Cunningham

2000 Chicken Run as Nick (voice)

2000 Vatel as Gourville

2000 Love's Labour's Lost as Armado

2000 Rough for Theatre II as B

1999 Topsy-Turvy as Richard Temple (The Mikado)

1999 The Clandestine Marriage as Sterling

1998 Immortality as Inspector Healey

1998 Still Crazy as David "Beano" Baggot

1998 Neville's Island as Gordon

1997 The Swords as Salesman

1996 Hamlet as Rosencrantz

1996 Secrets & Lies as Maurice Purley

1992 Roots as Jimmy Beales

1992 Dread Poets' Society as Derek

1991 Not Mozart: WAM! Limited as Wolfgang and Amadeus Mozart

1991 Nona as Chico

1991 Broke as Francis Meeks

1990 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Pig Robinson

1990 Life Is Sweet as Aubrey

1990 The Sheltering Sky as Eric Lyle

1990 1871 as Ramborde

1990 White Hunter, Black Heart as Hodkins

1989 David Macaulay: Pyramid as Kawab / Tomb Robber (voice)

1988 Dream Demon as Peck

1988 To Kill a Priest as Igor

1988 Crusoe as Reverend Milne

1988 Journey's End as Lt. Trotter

1987 Body Contact as Paul

1987 Gothic as Dr. Polidori

1985 Dutch Girls as Lyndon Baines Jellicoe

1985 The Bride as Paulus

1982 The Missionary as Parswell

1982 Remembrance as Douglas

1982 Oliver Twist as 1st Constable

1982 Home Sweet Home as Gordon

1982 A Cotswold Death as Detective Sergeant Baxter

1981 The Three Sisters as Andrei

1981 The Cherry Orchard as Epikhodov

1981 Say No to Strangers

1980 S.O.S. Titanic as Jim (uncredited)

1979 The Brylcreem Boys as Shorty

1979 Quadrophenia as Projectionist

1978 The Vanishing Army as Wainwright

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6.74 Mystery 5

6.65 Fantasy 15

6.58 Crime 8

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6.45 Adventure 20

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5.82 Comedy 34

5.63 Horror 11

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5.54 Thriller 15