Timothy Spall
Acting
1957-02-27 · Battersea, London, England, UK
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
TheatersVirginia Woolf's Night & Day
2026 · Movie
Hamlet
2026 · Movie
Goodbye June
2025 · Movie
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
2025 · Movie
Death Valley
2025 · Series
Rich Flu
2024 · Movie
Wicked Little Letters
2024 · Movie
The Heist Before Christmas
2023 · Movie
Bolan's Shoes
2023 · Movie
Northern Comfort
2023 · Movie
The Sixth Commandment
2023 · Series
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · Movie
This Is Christmas
2022 · Movie
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Series
Remembers…
2022 · Series
Spencer
2021 · Movie
The Grand Duke Of Corsica
2021 · Movie
The Last Bus
2021 · Movie
It Snows in Benidorm
2020 · Movie
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020 · Movie
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019 · Movie
Perpetual Grace LTD
2019 · Series
Summer of Rockets
2019 · Series
Hatton Garden
2019 · Series
The Corrupted
2019 · Movie
This Time Away
2019 · Movie
Early Man
2018 · Movie
Finding Your Feet
2017 · Movie
The Changeover
2017 · Movie
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017 · Series
The Party
2017 · Movie
The Journey
2017 · Movie
Stanley, a Man of Variety
2016 · Movie
Denial
2016 · Movie
Away
2016 · Movie
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016 · Movie
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015 · Series
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015 · Movie
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015 · Movie
Cider with Rosie
2015 · Movie
Sucker
2015 · Movie
The Enfield Haunting
2015 · Series
Wolf Hall
2015 · Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014 · Movie
Mr. Turner
2014 · Movie
9 Kisses
2014 · Movie
The Love Punch
2014 · Movie
Back with the Boys Again
2013 · Movie
Blandings
2013 · Series
Room on the Broom
2012 · Movie
Love Bite
2012 · Movie
London 2012 Olympic Games
2012 · Series
Ginger & Rosa
2012 · Movie
Upside Down
2012 · Movie
The Rise
2012 · Movie
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
2012 · Movie
Assassin's Bullet
2012 · Movie
The Syndicate
2012 · Series
Boy
2012 · Movie
Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012 · Series
Comes a Bright Day
2012 · Movie
My Angel
2011 · Movie
Reuniting the Rubins
2011 · Movie
Timothy Spall: Back At Sea
2011 · Series
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Movie
Wake Wood
2011 · Movie
The King's Speech
2010 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Movie
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010 · Movie
Heartless
2010 · Movie
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010 · Series
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · Movie
10 Minute Tales
2009 · Series
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009 · Movie
From Time to Time
2009 · Movie
Desert Flower
2009 · Movie
Gunrush
2009 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 · Movie
The Damned United
2009 · Movie
Appaloosa
2008 · Movie
A Room with a View
2008 · Series
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Movie
Oliver Twist
2007 · Series
Enchanted
2007 · Movie
A Room with a View
2007 · Movie
Death Defying Acts
2007 · Movie
British Film Forever
2007 · Series
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
Mysterious Creatures
2006 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
The Street
2006 · Series
Teenage Tourettes Camp
2006 · Movie
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Movie
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
2005 · Movie
Cherished
2005 · Movie
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Movie
The Last Samurai
2003 · Movie
Gettin' Square
2003 · Movie
One Life
2003 · Series
My House in Umbria
2003 · Movie
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Movie
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002 · Movie
Top Gear
2002 · Series
All or Nothing
2002 · Movie
Bodily Harm
2002 · Series
Ivor the Invisible
2001 · Movie
Vanilla Sky
2001 · Movie
Rock Star
2001 · Movie
Lucky Break
2001 · Movie
Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
2001 · Movie
Perfect Strangers
2001 · Series
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001 · Movie
Intimacy
2001 · Movie
The Thing about Vince
2000 · Series
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000 · Movie
Chicken Run
2000 · Movie
Vatel
2000 · Movie
Love's Labour's Lost
2000 · Movie
Rough for Theatre II
2000 · Movie
Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Movie
The Clandestine Marriage
1999 · Movie
Shooting the Past
1999 · Series
Immortality
1998 · Movie
Still Crazy
1998 · Movie
Our Mutual Friend
1998 · Series
Parkinson
1998 · Series
Neville's Island
1998 · Movie
The Hunger
1997 · Series
The Swords
1997 · Movie
Hamlet
1996 · Movie
Secrets & Lies
1996 · Movie
Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex
1995 · Movie
Nice Day at the Office
1994 · Series
The Danny Baker Show
1994 · Series
Outside Edge
1994 · Series
Frank Stubbs Promotes
1993 · Series
Roots
1992 · Movie
Dread Poets' Society
1992 · Movie
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · Series
Murder Most Horrid
1991 · Series
Not Mozart: WAM! Limited
1991 · Movie
Nona
1991 · Movie
Pebble Mill
1991 · Series
Performance
1991 · Series
Broke
1991 · Movie
Life Is Sweet
1991 · Movie
Spender
1991 · Series
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
1990 · Movie
The Sheltering Sky
1990 · Movie
1871
1990 · Movie
White Hunter, Black Heart
1990 · Movie
Crusoe
1989 · Movie
David Macaulay: Pyramid
1989 · Movie
Dream Demon
1988 · Movie
This Morning
1988 · Series
To Kill a Priest
1988 · Movie
Red Dwarf
1988 · Series
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · Series
Journey's End
1988 · Movie
Body Contact
1987 · Movie
Gothic
1987 · Movie
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Dutch Girls
1985 · Movie
The Bride
1985 · Movie
A Crack in the Ice
1985 · Movie
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
1983 · Series
The Missionary
1982 · Movie
Remembrance
1982 · Movie
Oliver Twist
1982 · Movie
Home Sweet Home
1982 · Movie
A Cotswold Death
1982 · Movie
The Three Sisters
1981 · Movie
The Cherry Orchard
1981 · Movie
Say No to Strangers
1981 · Movie
S.O.S. Titanic
1980 · Movie
The Brylcreem Boys
1979 · Movie
Quadrophenia
1979 · Movie
The Vanishing Army
1978 · Movie
The Life Story of Baal
1978 · Movie
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Series
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Film '72
1971 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Murdering Michael Malloy
Movie
Late in Summer
Movie
Untitled 13
Movie