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.
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Popularity132
Credits6.8
Rating112M
Budget486M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 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
7.30 Documentary 5
6.74 Mystery 5
6.65 Fantasy 15
6.58 Crime 8
6.58 Western 1
6.53 War 3
6.47 History 12
6.45 Adventure 20
6.41 Animation 6
6.34 Drama 64
6.29 Science Fiction 4
6.27 TV Movie 14
6.19 Romance 14
5.96 Family 13
5.87 Music 9
5.82 Comedy 34
5.63 Horror 11
5.57 Action 3
5.54 Thriller 15